South Korea

South Korea
Location	asia
Type	nation state
Interest of	Tim Shorrock
Member of	APEC, G-20, International Criminal Court, International Energy Agency, OECD, UN
Subpage	•South Korea/Deep state •South Korea/National Intelligence Service •South Korea/President •South Korea/Prime Minister

Mass Surveillance

In June 2015, Acting Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan announced that the government would use cell phone signals to track people if it has quarantined them for possible Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, asking people to "Please understand this is an unavoidable measure for the sake of our neighbors and families".

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Cheonan sinking	“But around the time of this incident another sinking occurred that has hardly been reported in Japan. Near the site of the sinking of the Cheonan, a colossal object, which appears to be a US submarine, was found to have sunk. An ROK underwater team searched for, and on April 7 South Korea’s KBS TV showed, a US helicopter carrying what seems to be the body of a US soldier. KBS is a public broadcasting station with the highest credibility in South Korea." "ROK and US authorities did their best to hide the fact that a US submarine sank at about the same time as the Cheonan.... On the day of the incident, the exercise was underway. After the incident, the US-ROK authorities made no mention of the fact that the joint military exercise was in progress. But the day after the incident, various ROK media and newspapers reported that the Cheonan might have been sunk by friendly fire during the military exercise.”	Tanaka Sakai
Bruce Cumings	“The Korean War did not begin on June 25, 1950, much special pleading and argument to the contrary. If it did not begin then, Kim II Sung could not have "started" it then, either, but only at some earlier point. As we search backward for that point, we slowly grope toward the truth that civil wars do not start: they come. They originate in multiple causes, with blame enough to go around for everyone—and blame enough to include Americans who thoughtlessly divided Korea and then reestablished the colonial government machinery and the Koreans who served it. How many Koreans might still be alive had not that happened? Blame enough to include a Soviet Union likewise unconcerned with Korea's ancient integrity and determined to "build socialism" whether Koreans wanted their kind of system or not. How many Koreans might still be alive had that not happened? And then, as we peer inside Korea to inquire about Korean actions that might have avoided national division and fratricidal conflict, we get a long list indeed.”	Bruce Cumings	2005
Bruce Cumings	“The United States is the power that introduced nuclear weapons into Korea, and it took this drastic step primarily to stabilize volatile North-South relations. Always suspicious of North Korea's intentions, in the mid-1950s the Eisenhower Administration also worried that South Korean President Syngman Rhee might reopen the war. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to restrain both sides — with nuclear weapons. Even hotheads like Rhee and Kim Il Sung, he believed, would think twice before starting a war that would rain atomic destruction on the peninsula. In January of 1958 the United States positioned 280mm nuclear cannons and "Honest John" nuclear-tipped missiles in South Korea; these were followed a year later by nuclear-tipped Matador cruise missiles. Soon American and South Korean defense strategy rested on routine plans to use nuclear weapons very early in any new war — at "H + 1," according to one former U.S. commander in Korea, meaning within one hour (more likely a few hours) of the outbreak of war if large masses of North Korean troops succeeded in attacking south of the DMZ. Annual "Team Spirit" military exercises included rehearsals for battlefield nuclear war. North Korea responded by building enormous facilities underground or in mountain redoubts, from troop and materiel depots to munitions factories and warplane hangars. This was a bit of a problem for American surveillance, in that it allowed for a great many places to hide an atomic bomb.”	Bruce Cumings	2005
Vladimir Putin	“Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through. The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent. Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world. The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons. It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour. They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research. It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.”	Vladimir Putin	2022

 

Events

Event	Description
Korean War	The war on the Korean peninsular between the China/Soviet-backed forces of the North and the US-backed South between 1951-53
Sinking of MV Sewol	A ferry sinking which killed hundreds of schoolchildren. Officially, an accident, but information hidden and falsified in investigation.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	End	Description
Defense Security Command	21 October 1950
Hanyang University	1939		One of the leading private research universities of South Korea.
Keimyung University	1954		Providing Koreans with higher education firmly anchored in Christianity
Korean Central Intelligence Agency	13 June 1961	1981	So dependent on the CIA they didn't bother to change the name.
Kyung Hee University	1949		Prestigious South Korean university also considered a leading school in traditional Korean medicine and other traditional Asian medical practices.
Samsung	1938		Asian big tech company. Owned by a family caught bribing Korean presidents.
Seoul National University	1946		The most prestigious university in South Korea
Sungkyunkwan University	1398 JL		Partnership with Samnsung
Yeungnam University	1967		One of the top 10 Asian International Universities
Yonsei University	1885		Admission is widely regarded as determining one's career and social status in life

 

Citizens of South Korea on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Park Chung-hee	14 November 1917	26 October 1979	President of South Korea assassinated in office
Chun Doo-hwan	18 January 1931
Suh Hoon	1954		South Korean spook chief who promised to stop domestic spying. Arrested for "tampering with evidence" in 2022.
Kim Jae-gyu	6 March 1926	24 May 1980	As head of the KCIA he assassinated his boss, the South Korean president, Park Chung-hee
Kim Jong-pil			Participated in the May 16 coup, twice South Korean Prime Minister
Ban Ki-moon	13 June 1944		8th UN Secretary General
Choi Kyu-hah	16 July 1919	22 October 2006
Roh Moo-hyun	1 September 1946	23 May 2009	Former South Korean President. Officially committed suicide after a corruption scandal, which was promptly closed.
Won Sei-hoon	31 January 1951
Park Won-soon	26 March 1956	9 July 2020	Seoul Mayor found dead after a complaint of sexual harrasment
Kim Young-sam	20 December 1927	22 November 2015
Yuk Young-soo	14 November 1917	15 August 1974	The First Lady of South Korea, murdered in 1974 by a stray bullet shot at her husband Park Chung-hee

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	Switzerland World Economic Forum	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:North Korea - The Grand Deception Revealed	article	10 March 2017	Christopher Black	Post-WWII Korean history and the relentless demonisation of North Korea by the US.
Document:The Korea issue is now in the hands of the BRICS	Article	3 September 2017	Adam Garrie	"Simon says: 'There's a 7½-hour flight from the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China to Pyongyang, North Korea so if Sergei Lavrov and the Chinese FM took that flight together to meet Kim Jong-un, it would have huge impact, and get the ball rolling on dialogue'."
Document:Washington Considers Military Action Against North Korea to Force Regime Change	article	7 March 2017	Stephen Gowans	A history of Post-WWII US military threats against North Korea leading to the latest escalation in Spring 2017, with due weight given to the North Korean perspective
Document:Why Does the West Hate North Korea?	article	8 March 2016	André Vltchek	Suppressed information about North Korea and suggestions as to why it gets such a bad press in the West

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