Envisioning a New East Asia

July 20, 2018

Sung Hyun Park

1.    Two Tasks

What is at stake is much bigger and more critical than just to denuclearize North Korea. It is about Taming and Triangulating China(TTC) as well as about eliminating North Korean nuclear/missile program. The birth of a new East Asia, will it come true?

CVID, since it is just another name of CVIL, Complete, Verifiable, and Irreversible Liberalization, will have a decisive, deep and lasting impact on the socio-political psychology of Chinese people. The liberation and rapid development of North Korea, which is the inevitable result of CVID/CVIL, will make their mind more perceptive and supportive with regard to human rights, fair market and global responsibility. North Korean democidal regime has built nuclear bombs. Dismantling them and liberating her people is nothing but a huge psychological ‘bomb’.

On the other hand, South Korean politics has been crippled by pro-totalitarianism. Two forces have strengthened this vicious trend. One is the false dilemma ‘war vs. peace’. The other is the lack of truthful world-perspective and value-system, which should have been upheld by the establishment, learned people, religious leaders and etc. As long as South Korea’s sick political culture is dominating its people, the resurrection of the North Korean people into independent individuals living on the platform of freedom and open market will be seriously hampered. For South Koreans are the most important partners and guides in this great process of human resurrection.

Thus we have two tasks: the CVID/CVIL of North Korea and the strengthening of South Korean political culture.

2.    The Amoral Mask on the Moral Task

The US has succeeded in engaging the Kim family and the privileged of the North. Like a hooked big fish, the totalitarian cult cannot help being pulled and released repeatedly until the human and material cost of collapsing or implosion reaches the minimal level. And there comes the moment of truth.

But this complicated maneuvering is deeply confusing and disorienting the South Korean people. The Moon administration is brain-washing South Koreans to totally give up any moral judgment on the democidal totalitarian bloodline cult. Metaphorically, Pol Pot is becoming a savior and the killing field is advertised as a rose garden. Those who are disgusted with this wholesale demoralization tend to feel very bitter toward the US, since the media, both American and Korean, are telling that the Trump administration is selling out South Korea to North Korea and China, to save ‘its own skin’.

Thus it is very important to stage a series of US-Korean performances which show:

1) the US is well aware that the final, decisive issue of North Korean crisis is the human rights and open market.

2) South Koreans and Americans, and possibly the Japanese people, should work together to push forward the cause, that is, human rights and open market.

In other words, we cannot ignore that there are two dimensions of the crisis ‘North Korean WMD’. One is military, which is essentially an amoral business. The other moral, since the CVID/CVIL involves human rights, freedom, open market and so on and on, all of which boil down to the existential issue: how one becomes an independent individual with dignity. An amoral mask on the highly moral task, this is the structure of this historical task.

So it is very important to have political performances to uphold the noble perspective and values of liberating North Korea. Prominent political figures, American and Korean, need to send the message that CVID inevitably leads to the regime change.   

3.    Too Materialistic Peace-Lovers

About thirty years ago, three things happened. First, the Eastern block collapsed. Second, South Korean economy took off. Third, the radical student/youth movement compelled the military authoritarian power elites to take drastic measure toward democracy.

In the 80’s, these changes weakened the anti-Communist culture, which is the result of the Korean War in the 50’s. There came a terrible vacuum of value and perspective, which can succeed the traditional anti-communism.  Since the 80’s, there have never been any serious efforts for establishing moral/political perspective and values. Korean people have degenerated into a state of materialism and disorientation. Now the majority has given up any moral judgment on the democidal totalitarian cult.  The majority has become too materialistic peace-lovers, just like Western Europeans in the late 30’s.

4.    ‘Perspective & Values’ and Getting Organized

What matters, what is lacking is language and communication. The common perspective and values which can bind voters, i.e., non-partisan citizenry(NPC), which pushes and moves partisan politics. Following is what should be done.

1)    Establish our own perspective and values, based on Burkean conservatism (Rhee Syng-Man, the founding father of the ROK) and Christian conservatism (American stream, i.e., Kirkland)

2)    Organize Christian conservatives into ‘hybrid’(working with secular) conservative entities. Up to now, they are not organized for hybrid activities and do not speak fluent secular-political language. They do not know how to make a socio-political organization and communicate with non-Christians. Christian activists/organizers need to learn how to ‘infiltrate’ into the secular world.

3)    Organize purely-secular entities, based on Burkean conservatism.

4)    Organize ‘local’ chapters, combining all the conservatives in the local, Christian or non-Christian. At the initial stage, the population size of one local is around one-million; 50 locals cover the whole country. Later, as more and more activists/organizers are trained, the size becomes smaller.