HYUNG-JIN KIM, Yahoo News
Sun, October 10, 2021, 7:22 AM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ruling liberal party on Sunday nominated its candidate for next year’s presidential elections, selecting a maverick politician known for his outspoken views who is currently the race’s front-runner.
Lee Jae-myung’s nomination as the Democratic Party presidential candidate comes despite his rivals’ efforts to depict him as a dangerous populist and link him to a snowballing real estate scandal.
Lee has vowed to fight economic inequality, introduce a universal basic income and resume reconciliation projects with North Korea.
https://news.yahoo.com/koreas-ruling-party-nominates-maverick-112233870.html
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t post this crappy wall street establishment news source for dummies. However, this particular report shows how the US establishment press twists and distorts the news about other countries, in this case South Korea. The byline under the first photo of Lee Jae-myung says “…Lee Jae-myung, one of the ruling Democratic Party’s contenders for next year’s presidential election, speaks during the final campaign to choose the presidential election." Lee Jae-myung in no longer “one of the ruling democratic party contenders,” he is the nominee of the Democratic Party. That is the news. Putting this past description above the news report, is a psychological tool, to prepare the public for the plan to prevent him from becoming the nominee. In the headline, he is described as a maverick politician. This is nonsense, Lee’s nomination by the democratic party represents the mainstream in modern South Korean democratic politics. He is in the tradition of Kim Dae-jung, No Mu-hyun, and the current democratic president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in.
The fact is that the US loathes President Moon Jae-in. Lee is cut from the same democratic tradition that puts the public interest and South Korean national interest above the so called corrupt special interests that have traditionally ruled Korea through right wing dictators and their authoritarian successors starting with No Tae-oo and ending with Park Geun-hye. The corrupt authoritarians on the right, and the corrupt prosecutors, judges, legislators, and media that have done their bidding for decades are the darlings of US media, the Pentagon and Wall Street. When democracy emerges into the daylight in South Korea, it must be smeared and ridiculed.
Accordingly, Yahoo News, attempts to smear presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung with the labels, populist, appeaser to the communist north, and corrupt government official. The McCarthy style smear is a reference to South Korean initiatives to initiate political, economic, cultural, public health and other humanitarian contacts with North Korea, which serve the cause of stability, security, and public welfare on the peninsula. As usual, the US special interests regard this as a threat to their military empire in Asia. What is worse, the current president, and the democratic candidate for president, aren’t really interested in an anti-China policy, the Quad, or any military moves against China, to be undertaken with the US, Japan, or Taiwan.
As far as Lee Jae-myung being corrupt, Lee Jae-myung’s opposition in South Korea shouldn’t have raised the Hwacheon Daeyu (Daejangdong) real estate project which Lee used as a public private partnership which resulted in tens of millions of dollars being accrued in publicly owned accounts for the benefit of Seongnam City tax payers. As it turns out, by creating a false charge against Lee of financial misfeasance in the project, Lee’s opposition has opened a Pandora’s box which revealed the corruption on the private side of the project with payoffs to family members of several current or former conservative politicians. The accusation also raised the issue of why Yoon Seok-yeol, failed to successfully prosecute the corrupt criminals who stole millions at the time from the Busan Savings Bank. Yoon is the conservative presidential candidate for the People’s Power Party. The people who voted for Lee, who won the nomination without a runoff, because of his large lead over his competition, know how dirty politics of the right are, the corruption of the administration of justice in South Korea as a political tool of the right, and the fact that years of investigation by right wing prosecutors, like candidate Yoon Seok-yeol have failed to result in conviction or provable charge against Lee.
As far as Lee Jae-myung being a populist, and a man of the people, guilty as charged.
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