South Korea’s Coup Was Not a Surprise

So I guess the main news I kind of want to talk about by the time this comes out next week will be very old the the martial law in uh false korea False korea false korea. Well, yeah, because not true korea the true korea course is the dprk Yes, and I by the way, I say dprk Because i'm extremely woke. Uh, well, I don't know that north korea is is a better country At least I think that's a tanky thing to call North korea dprk Yeah, yeah. I mean that's actually a pretty big tell that somebody is going to If somebody's saying dprk, they like the dp Yeah, and in case people don't know you're you're basing this off of somebody you actually spoke to who? Said yeah, it was a few a few years ago at like a mayday uh rally yeah, and he was like He was like had some sign about north korea dprk and I asked him about I interviewed I have the clip and and he was Like, oh, yeah, like america's terrible. Like the dprk is so great. At least people aren't You know starving to death in the dprk who ever heard of anyone starving in north korea? No, I mean, I think you seriously actually asked him if he thought life was better in the u.s or in north korea Oh, yeah, like oh definitely north korea In the end definitely dprk. Yeah, we were all stunned. Yeah Yep, and this was not a korean person. I didn't know. No, it was not the only park Of korea, but um, yeah, so south korea the president president young declared Martial law out of the blue. No one saw it coming. This was I don't know what he was thinking It was if it was the middle of the night It was not the middle of the night, but it was at late night late late Tuesday night, I think tuesday night in korea time. Oh in korea. Yeah uh, so Yeah, it seemed so out of the blue that even his own political party was Very much like we don't support this. Yeah. Well, there was there was a vote the next day No, no, not the next day. There was a vote like overnight I'm getting confused because of my timeline experiencing this in their timeline. Yeah, so there was a vote about it so a few hours later, so the so the president had tried to use the military to Block the national assembly uh building but 190 out of 300 national assembly members that their legislature right still made it into the building and unanimously voted to end martial law and then people started gathering outside the national assembly to protest and then you had these incredible images of essentially korean civilians Reprimanding the military. Have you seen some of these? Yeah, so there's a woman who was a news anchor or something and she's scolding this um Guy who has like a fairly large gun That he's holding and she's like slapping the gun away and going like, you know, how how dare you? You know, you should be ashamed of yourself, etc, etc. So and then the president was like, okay, actually No more martial law Well, I think he was required to like after the vote Yeah, but if you've already declared martial law because you say the assembly is rising up against you and there are you know Pro north korean communist forces in your government that you need to declare martial law to fight them Well, this is what's weird and I know we're going to talk a bit about this a little later. Um but like Americans don't get political warfare There are definitely and we've covered this on the show. There are definitely north korean and chinese forces inside South korean society and government trying to push things a certain way. It's same like in the u.s Where you have engagement type people? Um, so he's not wrong like there are there are communists. Oh, let me give you so so president president yoon is um a conservative And one of the things that he's been doing Over the last few years is he's been like changing the um South korea from being more pro china and pro pro north korea relations to being More so president yoon has developed ties with japan and with the united states Uh and is anti-communist. And so these are things that the chinese regime does not like uh, they're they're basically terrified of South korea moving away from china's sphere of influence and south korea has been very heavily under china's sphere of influence for a while Yeah, and we're not saying that this justifies Martial law or anything like that like this guy his wife is apparently being investigated for corruption There could be a lot of officials as well. There could be a lot of other things going on internally in the domestic south korean politics and because even though um president yoon's Conservative party Even though he's the president The the liberal democratic party has a lot. I think they have the majority in the legislature. So they've been blocking everything They want it's the it's called the uh democratic party Right, so they're the korean conservative party is the people power party, I think Which sounds commie to me Well, there may there may be no heroes in this story But my my point is only that uh, I know what the chinese communist party's perspective is and they Don't like president yoon. And so they want to Damage his reputation go after him take him down he won very narrowly the presidential election, but so and then the democratic party came back to win a really big majority in the legislature and part of it was that Yoon had promised to do a um Kind of purge corruption and corruption is a huge problem in south korean politics. In fact, that's why several former presidents have been charged with things or isn't there one who was involved in witchcraft or was that just Was that the one that was the the religious group that may have been occult Uh, I maybe I forget just do some researching yourself, that's a wild wild thing Let's not talk about this on the show until we've done some research. I think well This is a good jumping off point for you the audience to join in on the fun of this show is to research well Witchcraft south korea. The question is is it was it real witchcraft? Okay before we go off the rails. I do want to give some Information about how deep the ccp Infiltration is. Yeah in south korea. So the democratic party the opposition party in south korea. They have essentially endorsed China's one china policy with taiwan. So not like a separate One china thing like the u.s. Has where they're like the u.s's policy is okay China says it's china including taiwan taiwan says it's china including taiwan. We acknowledge both sides say this Whereas china's version is south korea's version south korea's version is china's version. No, not south korea's version the democratic party of south korea um, they have endorsed china's version, which is taiwan belongs to us, you know, so they've You know very friendly ties with ccp officials. The democratic party has been in power for more recently than the conservative party and so there have been civil servant exchanges between um, like young chinese civil servants and young South korean civil servants like government officials that they've been traveling And you know experiencing Like stuff in the other country, right and and they get they get the young. Uh korean Diplomats to come over or civil servants to come over to china go to karaoke bars Stay in hotel rooms where they may be videotaped. Oh, well, I don't know about that specifically but you know, they do have to go through um Training and xi jinping thought, you know, uh when they go to china just so they learn uh so it's kind of like The south korean democratic party is very pro-china, right they've accused um the conservative party of provoking china by talking about taiwan speaking of corruption the The democratic party's former presidential candidate Was also convicted of violating election law And was like said like sentenced to like a one-year suspended prison term. So this is this it's messy In south korea, which is why it's false korea unlike the pristine political system of gucci yeah, and then okay, so a lot of You know, I hope that doesn't get clipped out of context this is why we need to put the the podcast on our own website um, so it's uh, what else so south korea apparently has the highest number of confucius institutes In the world, which south korea is a small country. Yeah, uh, and then there's also things like uh There are dozens of south korean media outlets that carry ccp Uh, cctv state-run media, you know ccp propaganda people's daily articles the weirdest thing is that there was a Mayor of a south korean city i'm going to mispronounce this guangju in 2023 Tried to build a park in honor of the guy who composed the anthem of the people's liberation army And a marching song for north korea because he thought it would bring chinese tourists. Wow That's a very specific thing. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think it's because the guy was from that city, so You can't choose who you're You know elected representatives are no. No. No, I was gonna say who your famous people who are communists are Yeah Um, right, but but like if you're from I don't know wherever jeffrey dalmar was from like you don't have to build a park in his honor oh, that's Very true stunning analogy um, so Obviously the bad thing about this. Well, the unfortunate thing is about this is that president yoon likely will not be president much longer Yeah, there's talk that he'll probably be impeached. Yes Yeah, and so and I mean like I don't know what the hell he was thinking with the martial law thing that backfired However, but this this will mean that uh likely the democratic party will get more power and it is very pro china so and the ccp has also been trying to for many years like Undermine relations between south korea and japan and south korea in the u.s so yeah, it's harder to do it with south korea in the u.s, but um, you know now what has been happening under president biden and You know Japan and south korea in recent years is trying to have an alliance between the three countries And so now this makes it all that more difficult. I mean, I think xi jinping is pretty happy probably probably Yeah, there's not a lot of things that make him happy I think he leads a difficult life poor xi jinping all the the jar of honey is just out of reach in other news