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2017 Presidential Election

It was the Democratic Party’s Moon Jae In's election as President in 2017 that put this goal
within reach as he moved quickly to put loyalists in key parts of the systems, including the
judiciary.
Moon was preternaturally soft on North Korea and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He
even states in his autobiography that he was euphoric on hearing of America’s defeat in
Vietnam.
His close advisors and some of his appointees to key positions were hard-core radicals.

Just take Lee In-young, the Unification Minister appointed in July 2020, and read the
transcript of his confirmation hearing in the National Assembly. Lee is biting his tongue but
doesn’t seem to have changed much since his days as the #2 person in the Anti-American
Youth Association – the underground organization that provided leadership to Jeondaehyup,
the violent, radical 1980’s student organization based upon North Korea’s Juche ideology.
Moon packed the judiciary and tried to bring the prosecutors under control as well. The head
of the intelligence service was reportedly chummy with North Korea. And the local media
were intimidated as the Moon administration used libel laws (truth is no defense in South
Korea) and threats of tax audits to silence and even imprison critics – including private
citizens. As one senior US official put it: “Moon took a stiletto to the free press (in South
Korea.)”

The South Korean military was put on notice with the arrest of a four-star general shortly
after Moon took office on sketchy “abuse of power” charges of which he was later acquitted.
But the military got the message.
And Moon used the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) like a weapon. KCTU
itself was charged by Korean authorities in the so-called Changwon espionage case in 2024
with having direct ties to North Korea – specifically forming an underground organization
linked to North Korea under the direction of the North Korean spy agency.
Moon also went after South Korean industry – notably Samsung. Big business was one of the
few remaining major obstacles to total control. And Moon moved to place KCTU cells inside
more companies – like Communist Party committees inside “private” companies in the PRC
– to better intimidate and control.

2020 National Assembly Election

But there was a key missing piece for Moon and the leftists, the real prize, the National
Assembly. They soon got it.

The April 15, 2020 the National Assembly election was an unexpected and overwhelming
victory for Moon’s Democratic Party. The party could now pass any legislation it
wanted. Peel off just three votes and amending the constitution was possible.
Some conservatives and citizens groups alleged the election was rigged, and with Chinese
help.
Of particular concern was the role of the National Election Commissions. Its top officials
included Moon loyalists.
Specifically, there were concerns that the National Election Commission’s (NEC) electronic
network was hacked, the vote manipulated and the NEC leadership didn’t care to detect or
correct the attack.
An attack of that sort maybe not as hard as imagined. The network was basically a main
server at the National Election Commission that connected to each polling site. It was not the

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