South Korea wants to brainwash students to whitewash North Korea's bloody history

Washington Examiner ^ | Sep 28, 2018 | Michael Rubin

[CondoleezzaProtege]

For those whose world is based in moral equivalence, there is no difference between liberal democracy and totalitarian dictatorship. Supposed micro-aggressions or past human rights sins are disqualifying factors to condemn an enemy’s contemporary embrace of slave labor and concentration camps.

Welcome to the mindset of South Korea’s supposedly progressive leadership...

According to Chosun Ilbo, a conservative paper which is among the largest circulated in South Korea, President Moon is seeking to change the textbooks used in South Korean schools beginning in 2020.

Not only will the new books omit that the Republic of Korea (i.e., South Korea) is the unilateral government of the Korean Peninsula, as recognized by the United Nations, but it will also include no mention of North Korea’s invasion of South Korea during the Korean War.

In other words, Moon believes that a communist dictatorship’s invasion that sparked a war killing an estimated 2.5 million people is not worthy of mention because to do so might contradict the political narrative which Moon and his fellow travelers want to put forward.

In addition, the Chosun Ilbo report suggests that the new textbooks will not mention North Korean human rights abuses or military provocations. Put another way, Moon does not want future generations to learn that while his previous boss was showering North Korea’s leader with $200 million in cash, that same leader was running a series of concentration camps which continue to exist to this day.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Striving for peace on the peninsula is a good and necessary thing--but none of that negates the need to remain committed to historical truth.

[Lysandru]

WTF is it with Progressives?

[MichaelCorleone]

With all the anti-American rewriting of history in our own public schools and universities, we can hardly point fingers.

[PIF]

Moon belongs to the Juche cult developed by Kim Il-sung. in other words, Moon would have no problem (once unification is complete) relinquishing his position to Kim Jong-un. This recasting of Korean history is just the beginning of the implementation of the Juche philosophy in South Korea.

[Jonty30]

It’s certainly a better option than liberals constantly wanting to bring up the past in order to keep reminding whites what terrible human beings they are.

In the Bible, we are told not to judge a subsequent generation for the sins of a previous generation. No matter what terrible acts somebody has done, their children should not be held responsible for those terrible acts.

[TigersEye]

If true, that’s a big mistake.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Tolerance, but for the wrong things. Depravity, evil, sin. When you tolerate those and allow them to exist in your midst, you join forces with them. What libs don’t understand is that good and evil can’t coexist. One of them is by default your enemy.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Well, they do the same here. Socialism is cool and doesn’t kill folks. Ask any college student.

[Wuli]

“Not only will the new books omit that the Republic of Korea (i.e., South Korea) is the unilateral government of the Korean Peninsula, as recognized by the United Nations, but it will also include no mention of North Korea’s invasion of South Korea during the Korean War.”

While this application of the “Sunshine Policy” is as flawed and bogus as the rest of it, the two part statment above is also flawed. South Korea is NOT “recognized by the United Nations” as the “UNILATERAL” government of “the Korean Peninsula”.

There are three member states of the U.N. that do not recognize the government of North Korea as a U.N. member. And one member state that does not recognize South Korea as a U.N. member (North Korea) that stems from the history of both sides declaring themself to be the only legitimate government of all of the Korean Penninsula. Which I think South Korea no longer does, but North Korea may still. In spite of all that, in 1991, the Security Council and the general assembly voted on (and passed) U.N. recognition of both governments. That recognition applies to U.N. and its bodies, but does not apply to U.N. members that still are withholding such recognition themselves.