“Fifty-first State” of the US

There are over 200 countries in the world, but there is no colony of the United States just like south Korea. The south Korean people have been devoid of their sovereignty for 70 years, groaning under the colonial rule of the US.

Soon after the defeat of the Japanese imperialists on August 15, 1945 the US illegally occupied the southern half of Korea in September 1945. Then it proclaimed the enforcement of the “military government,” and forcibly dissolved the People’s Committees, setting up a puppet regime with Syngman Rhee, an American stooge, as its chief executive. When the regime collapsed as a result of the April 19 Popular Uprising in 1960, the US instigated Park Chung Hee to carry out the May 16 Military Coup. In 1979 when the Yushin dictatorship was faced with a crisis, the US mercilessly removed its stooge Park who had been in power for 18 years and made a new military regime headed by Chun Doo Hwan. In June 1987 when a popular uprising broke out, it staged a farce of announcing the “June 29 special declaration,” replacing Chun with Roh Tae Woo’s junta.

All those changes of regime were designed by the US. Evidence: The former CIA Director Dulles confessed that the most successful of the CIA’s overseas operations during his tenure was the May 16 coup. A suggestion was presented in a US Congressional hearing in June 1987 to confer the Nobel Peace Prize on the then Assistant Secretary of State for the east Asian and Pacific affairs for his scenario of the “June 29 special declaration.”

The manipulation of the puppet regimes has continued up until now. In particular, the US overtly poked its nose into the “presidential” election in south Korea in 2007. According to watchdog WikiLeaks it ferreted out private data and political inclinations of the candidates, election strategies of the ruling and opposition parties and the flow of the public opinion, and dispatched dozens of experts to Seoul to mastermind Lee Myung Bak’s election on the spot. During the 2012 campaign the US replaced its ambassador to south Korea with a “pro-south Korea” figure and sent relevant experts and plotters to put Park Geun Hye in “presidency.” By such methods the US helps its stooges take power, and pulls the wire behind the curtain, thus strengthening its colonial rule over south Korea.

The US imposes White House instructions on south Korea through its local instruments like the US embassy, the command of the US occupation forces in south Korea and the south Korean branch of the CIA, and directs, supervises and controls their implementation. The structure of the US embassy in south Korea is so finely shaped as to be called an epitome of the US Administration. It takes a thorough hold of south Korea. Therefore, even south Korean officials concerned readily say that the real ‘residence of the chief executive’ is not the Blue House, but the Jongdong residence of the US ambassador.

The US, after wresting the military control from south Korea, has turned it to the victim of its policy of aggression and war. It seized the command control of the south Korean puppet army by forcing subjective and unequal treaties on south Korea, such as the “military agreement” in 1948, the “Taejon agreement” in 1950 and the “mutual defence treaty” in 1953. Moreover, the US organized the US-south Korea “military commission” and the “combined forces command” so as to strengthen its military control of the puppet army. Though it returned the peacetime command control to south Korea in 1994, it still holds the main power to command the puppet army even in peacetime.

In the 2000s the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was adopted and the anti-US ethos for independence grew sharply in south Korea. Now the US unwillingly agreed to return the wartime command control to the south Korean puppet army in April 2012. No sooner had the Lee Myung Bak conservative regime took power in 2008 than the US prolonged the time of the return to 2015. Recently it made the Park Geun Hye regime postpone it indefinitely. Indeed, south Korea is a colony of the US in all fields of politics, defence and social life from A to Z, and the south Korean regime is nothing but an American tool and puppet serving the latter for upkeep of the colonial rule. Therefore, the media at home and abroad comment ironically that south Korea is the “US’s colony No. 1” or the “51st state” of the US.

Seventy years have passed since Korea’s liberation from the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists, but the south Korean people are still shackled by the colonial rule of the US.