The Red Shadow Destroying South Korea

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The Truth Revealed

In the eyes of the international community, the events of Dec. 3, 2024 in South Korea looked as though President Yoon Suk Yeol was threatening democracy by declaring martial law. The world watched as there was a rapid response to impeach this conservative president as the leftist-controlled legislature moved to eject him from office.

But what if everybody had got the story wrong? What if Yoon’s desperate measure was not a coup at all?  I will argue that he acted to preserve democracy in a final, failed attempt to stop a ‘legislative dictatorship’ and a ‘slow-motion coup.’ I believe that Yoon’s downfall was orchestrated by suspected fraud and agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operating in South Korea and in China itself.

South Korea is currently standing in the crosshairs of a hidden war — what we call a “System War.” We will see that this is not merely a partisan squabble. It is an existential battle over whether the nation will remain in the free world or become a vassal state of China. (RELATED: Dangerous Mindsets In Asia: Another Long March By China)

Presidents in Conflict

To understand the nature of this conflict, just look at the lead-up to it. Whilst in office, President Yoon chose the West — he restored the U.S.- South Korea Alliance and became the first Korean president to attend the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summits for three consecutive years. In response, the Chinese government threatened that South Korea will pay the price. We can only think that Yoon’s impeachment is that price.

In stark contrast, the current leftist leader, Lee Jae Myung, has shown blatant favoritism toward China. Lee refused a NATO invitation and his party has pushed hate speech laws that could be abused by Beijing. Under his watch, anti-China rallies are suppressed as “hate speech” while radical anti-American demonstrations received different treatment. These events were described in earlier articles.

Stop the Steal

Not surprisingly perhaps, the front line of this “System War” is the ballot box. President Donald Trump, with his keen instinct for election integrity, highlighted this vital cause on a Truth Social post. He reposted another commentator noting that suspected election fraud is a global phenomenon, and that South Korea is no exception. He is right. The approximately 29 impeachment motions pushed by the opposition to paralyze the Yoon administration were a smoke screen — a counteroffensive by a corrupt cartel desperate to cover up years of election fraud allegations. (RELATED: US-ROK Alliance: Washington Sees Only What It Wants To See)

The statistical and physical irregularities are clear and extensively documented. Professor Walter Mebane of the University of Michigan analyzed the 2020 South Korean general election and identified anomalies suggesting that approximately 7% of the votes may have been manipulated. During court-ordered recounts, observers alleged that they discovered bundles of ballots so stiff and pristine they looked like stacks of new banknotes —”ghost votes” that had never been folded into a ballot box.

The voting machinery itself is compromised. Former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned that machines supplied by South Korea were undermining trust in the Congo and Iraq around the same time they were identified as vulnerable. Yet the National Election Commission (NEC) in Seoul, aided by the South Korean mainstream media, have successfully labeled any citizen demanding a fair audit as a conspiracy theorist.

Worse still, South Korea suffers from a structural flaw where a sitting Supreme Court Justice frequently doubles as the Election Commission Chairperson. This creates a legal loop where the arbiter of the election might as well be judging his own case. This organization is so morally bankrupt that government auditors have exposed over 1,200 cases of “hereditary hiring” and extreme nepotism within its ranks.

A Perilous Connection

Most alarming for the United States is what is called the “Red Shadow” of China looming behind this corrupt infrastructure. Take one example of this connection. In 2017, the NEC reportedly posted at least one since-deleted video on its official YouTube channel highlighting Wang Huning, then the CCP Politburo member at the center of China’s ideological subversion operations. You have to ask, “Why would an election body in a free democracy highlight a mastermind of communist propaganda?” I think I have found out why.

The answer may lie in the computer servers that handle the results run by NEC during the elections. In a parliamentary audit in October, the NEC’s Secretary-General admitted an alarming fact. He revealed that during the early voting period the secure election network was not separated from the nation’s conventional open external networks. The networks were connected. This admission confirms what critics have long feared — that the back door, which colloquially describes the array of connections at the back of computer servers, was wide open for hacking and external data manipulation. (RELATED: Money, Politics And The Wealth Of Nations)

Intelligence reviews have already confirmed that NEC servers are highly vulnerable to potential intrusion by North Korean and Chinese hackers. If these suspicions are not cleared, South Korea faces a grim future as a Chinese vassal state.

We appeal to the Trump administration and the American people through this article. Please do not be fooled by the surface-level stability of South Korea. A desperate war for freedom is raging in the Korean Peninsula. If suspected fraud possibly linked to Chinese influence isn’t addressed, the U.S. will lose a key partner in the Indo-Pacific region. South Korea will become a puppet regime that answers only to China. The whole of Northeast Asia will be threatened as the Chinese red shadow expands its influence further throughout this volatile part of the world.