A Fake High Noon drama

Stay Cool to watch a fake High Noon 2017

It is a summer, We may have to take out again our old electric fans left unused for years to cool our old body. Weather is hot, even going to be hotter this summer because the progressive – progressivism is a euphemism for socialism or communism - environmentalist Mr. Moon ordered to shut down the nuclear plants not worrying electric power shortage in maximum demand during the boiling summer and requiring more limitation of the electricity usage in the poverty stricken neighborhood potentially increasing child diseases and elderly mortality. He decided also to resupply the scarce electric power to N Korea for the restoration of Kaesung industrial park. He lives in his high school dream of a unified socialistic Korea. His Utopian ideal will only lead to another failed nation under which Koreans will suffer even more. This shows his motivation being for ideology not for real people. Meantime, we have to learn how to stay cool physically and intellectually in this unpredictable era. Elderly person like us is recommended rather to stay home lying down in front of a not so cool electric fan. The electric fan is much cheaper to operate than the air con. In those days in my high school, when the electric power was so poor that during the high demand even the electric fan did not turn normally, I contrived to build myself a step up transformer draining the electric power more from my neighborhood into my electric fan. I was a bad boy not practicing the equal distribution in Mr. Moon’s world. I was too young to have ‘equal distribution’ in my brain dictionary. My ingenuity and efforts made me an electrical engineer, who at my peak had built a satellite communications network over the continental US. I still have at our family room the plaque of recognition for the work in 1990. It was 37 years ago. Right after that, I got a job of managing the Koreasat program only to learn the social greed dominated by then Korean political hacks. But I had a few good friends helping me struggling in the dirt. Time flies. I was lucky to have such a good help and grace probably coming from the above. All the water reservoirs are dried up this season. There is not enough water to grow farm products. We need a lot of rainfall. People started to look up heavenward. We are mere mortals.  Be healthy this summer, my friends. Everything will turn out all right.

To stay cool intellectually, we need an intellectual exercise helping mental health. The pop singer Kim Hyunchul is well known for his hit song of the wall clock not missing even one tick. He seemed to hate the wall clock robbing him of younger days of his love and romance. We are slaved to the ticking time. Our lives move according to the time tick as military soldiers move according to the tempo of marching band. Can you guess when ‘time’ had started to tick? Have you ever asked this question seriously? A Christian answer is simple. God created time because God created everything. Stop babbling, some may retort in disdain. I can imagine who he is, but am not sure of it. But I know he believes in God by heart. He has a good heart. Okay, I am a Christian, Please bear with me. So you are arguing that time has been running forever from the time immemorial until today and will continue forever again. Aha, the present time is only real to live. The past time is gone and the future is yet to come. Then the present time is the end of the real time.  Yesterday was one real day before the end time, the day before yesterday being two real days before the end time. The day before a million years ago was a real day existed counting back one by one million times, not skipping a day, from the end time.  If time had started infinite years ago, there would have been infinite number of real not skippable days between the start time and today. Here is the contradiction in the infinity. The infinity is the uncountable number. The day infinite years ago can never reach today by count. In conclusion, time started counting sometime in the countable past. Q.E.D   So now we agree that we live in an edge of the time moving forward one day after another. Christians are aware of the end time story about wars and the rumors of war killing people with horrendous weapons, false leaders, and false prophets appearing in the Bible over and over again.  The end time may not be distant future but today. Remember we live on the edge of time, i.e. today. I know not whether this is the right interpretation for sure; I am only a lay. Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God. It is fair to say the end time story of the Bible is an indication, though imprecise literally, of what is happening now in the world in spiritual and intellectual sense.

Mr. Moon is kind of unfortunate President elected in the end time. Xi, Putin, Kim Jong-un, Trump, and Kwanghwamoon rioters would not let him have a single quiet sleep at night. He has succeeded in mobilizing the pop culture worshiping his Utopian dream. But he sold a fantasy land realizable in no way. His followers will soon realize their stupidity of being duped and will not exactly work for him but for themselves.  Worse of all, people say the presidency seems beyond his pay grade. This is an American term meaning he should be placed to a lower paying job. There will be a High Noon confrontation between him and Mr. Trump coming soon in Washington. We all know Gary Cooper of the confrontational western cowboy movie.  It is his moment to show his case while the world watches including China, Russia, and Japan. This could be an opportunity for him to show himself as a grownup man representing the Land of the Morning Calm. But Mr. Moon is not Gary Cooper but a stuttering novice revolutionist. There are some people siding with him. Many cowardly European socialist leaders hiding behind him want to see him making a case with wishful thinking. They like to see Mr. Trump fail regardless. They want to make a little dent in the capitalism by sacrificing the poor fellow in order to keep the collapsing socialism a day longer. So it is a fair game for Mr. Moon. Mr. Moon has got this position by deceiving Korean people but is deceived by the western socialism. This is all about the little fake High Noon. I sincerely hope he had a case. But I am not on his side because the unified socialistic Korea is only a boy’s fantasy. (June 25,2017, KYP)

Moon Regime of S Korea in disarray

Moon in Disarray 2017

The SAAD deployment would be on the forefront table to settle between the two leaders in the forthcoming Mr. Moon’s visit to the White House. Mr. Moon would say he decide after the environmental study which would take a couple of years to get the result. Mr. Trump may ask if who is going to secure the lives of the 20 million Seoul people from the nuclear attack of the North during the study period. The two years are like twenty years in this fast moving dangerous world. Mr. Moon dumbfounds hoping to go away soon from the stressful encounter. He has so many other problems: He has not even full cabinet built. He feels pressure from China; threat from Kim Jong-Un, who wants nothing else but money. The US wants a straight talk on his position. He is being asked if he is pro-American or anti-American. He has to fulfill unrealizable campaign promises indebted to the Kwanghwamoon riots to get the presidency elected. He is very careful of them not to be against him not to get impeached from the power he is bestowed. His true socialist color starts to show up. He wants to make the Government bigger by increasing the number of the government employees in the name of increasing job opportunities. He increases welfare programs and free educations at the cost of the tax payers’ burden. He wants to lower mobile phone fees by his order. He is ignorant of the nation’s economy. He is destroying the free market economy by using his Government power. He wants to reopen Kaesung industrial zone which will directly strengthen the North’s military power directed to overturn S Korea.  

Mr. Moon, the grand heir of Kim Dae-Joong, made it clear that he will pursue the Sunshine Policy Late Kim and Rho had initiated and expanded toward N Korea. (Please see my #22.) We have not forgotten Mr. Kim’s public address. Mr. Kim assured us at the time that N Korea would not develop nuclear weapons and missiles with our money sent. Was he a naïve politician or a communist traitor to turn S Korea over to N Korea? Unfortunately, we don’t have time to discuss this issue in a leisurely manner. But I am not suggesting an impeachment toward Mr. Moon right now.

We must keep S Korea from falling into a poor socialist nation by watching closely Mr. Moon’s pro-North policy. We cannot stop his pro-North policy up front. But the congress has the power to allow Mr. Moon to use money only in a certain way. He may help the people and private business of N Korea but must stop any money going to Kim Jong-un regime. I believe this is what all Korean people want and the congress’s job is to make this happen.

Mr. Moon is apparently a dreamer to have a unified Korea as Kim Dae-Jung was. Who does not like that in dream? He needs to stop sleep walking. Kim Jong-Un is the third generation communist in the North like him being a third generation socialist in the South.

In the real world, there are things men could do and couldn’t do because people’s lives are in the way. Kim Jong-Un has dangerous weapons in his hands. The best thing Mr. Moon could do is not the environmental study but the removal of the weapons from his hands with him or without. If he does this, he will be praised as a hero by China, America, and Russia. If he can put his neck on this issue at the White House in clear term, even Mr. Trump would treat him as an adult.

As for the environmental climate control, the US pulled herself out of the Paris Accord very recently. There are pros and cons. This is a political issue rather than scientific. Why is this not scientific, you may ask? Almost all scientists working on the climate study throughout the world live on the Government money. They work to produce what the Government wants to hear by the computer churning out garbage. They are weak human beings working like a machine not having real brain. My point is that we need not rely on what a machine put out in the name of science. America is very pragmatic determining what is important and what is not. Mr. Trump has decided at this point that the climate issue is not the first in priority unlike Mr. Obama did. Does S Korea have money in the first place to spend on the Paris Accord? (June 17, 2017, KYP)   

S Korean Politics Unsettled

Political Revenge

June weather in California is beautiful and pleasant. My wife and I decided to clean our bathroom today to get ready for the long hot summer days. We have been thinking about this cleaning since the beginning of this year. We no more have nimble bodies. Besides, I have been hooked to the development of the Korean political situation only to see the result I least hoped for. I am not a politician as you, my friends, know. I was an engineer. I was good at doing what I do best. One time, I saw an opportunity to serve my fatherland with my profession and expertise in putting up a communication satellite for the first time in Korea. I had established an enough credential in the company I worked with to lead this project. I had the full support from the company in money and technology. I got the best satellite ever built with the proven technology. As some of you may know, my campaign was not successful. My company decided to sell only technology and honesty at that time. Poor politicians worked for their cronies and did not pay attention to the benefits the nation would get by choosing the best proven product. I was treated as a street vendor. Going back to my bathroom, Mr. Moon would not help me to clean our bathroom. Mr. Hong would not help me either, even if he had succeeded his venture. I have nothing to do with particular politicians. But I was interested in seeing the direction with which such politicians are leading for a prosperous and peaceful Korea. We will find out very soon whether Mr. Moon is the right person. Can he put S Korea in the right place in good partnership of the free world, or in a place unrecognizable in the far eastern corner of the world? This is not a matter of private comfort of one generation but a human pride and dignity once lived in Korean peninsula as the fatherland.

Mr. Moon has raised a question as to whether additional units of SAAD missile system were installed following the legitimate authorization. If it were illegitimate, the US could have installed them furtively. This is a serious charge against his strongest ally. Raising such a question in public could be construed as a sign of severing the mutual trust. By keeping distance with the US, Mr. Moon might have attempted a cheap shot to have closer relationship with the Qing Dynasty. The Qing thought it is a good opportunity to bring S Korea to her side this time to make both North and South under her territory making a better position to negotiate with the US. So, Premier Xi even raised his voice of opposition of the THAAD in Korean peninsula. Mr. Moon, an inexperienced leader, thought his mumbling lip service can improve already cold relation with China. But China wants only real thing, the removal of SAAD, which is impossible to the US. Trump administration would not budge on such nonsense. The US and Korean alliance has been strong for the past 70 years. One president, though being a pro-North socialist, cannot give a dent on the relationship. Mr. Moon has a lot of homework to do before he meets with President Trump face to face. Mr. Moon has to remember there is the consequence on what he says or does in the world stage. He is no more a mere local instigator mingling with Kwanhwamoon riots. There is even the special news reporting that Mr. Moon has stopped the installation of the US SAAD. Should this be true, there could be a long negotiation ensuing.

Now Moon administration says that the SAAD question raised was not intended toward the US but toward domestic discussion only. His explanation is childish and laughable to mature adults. The US Defense secretary, Gen. Mattis responded, it is understandable after listening to the apology of the Korean Defense Minister Han. But his face looked puzzled. He did not seem to understand what Mr. Moon really want do with the SAAD. Only Koreans can understand including me. Mr. Moon does not want to make the nation less safe by weakening the US force in S Korea. Yet, He wants to consolidate his political power by purging his opponents from the government and influential positions. Mr. Moon is taking a political revenge against people he does not like. Daily TV news is full of suspicious accusations on the years old corruptions and wrong doing. For this reason, I would not watch Korean news for a while. People supporting him seem so righteous and are full of hatred toward those who do not agree with them 100%. This is dangerous for the future peace of the nation. The political revenge is no and no. People must learn to digest hatred into grace to stop repeated political revenge. Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says God. America is a great country, because there is no political revenge. Despite his tyranny and corruption in the name of political correctness, equal distribution, or religious freedom, Obama is not going to be punished for them. Mr. Obama is a student of the collective salvation at the cost of individual freedom. Luckily, he is not going to come back again, which is enough to Americans. Politicians are inherently corrupt. Good and honest people never want to become politicians. All we can expect from politicians is that they lead the nation in the right direction. Do you think Mr. Moon leads S Korea in the right direction? This is in my view a million dollar question everybody should ask. I do not think he does. Apparently, He works for poor and young people. But he is not a presidential material for all Koreans in the world stage.