I posted about the leftist anti-US groups links to the US beef protests that have continued to plague the country and now this report via One Free Korea pretty much confirms everything I speculated on before (not that it took a genius to figure this out):
Police yesterday released documents produced by anti-U.S. beef rally organizers that appear to show that the rallies were organized with the intent to bring down the Lee Myung-bak administration. Police raided the office of the Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement and confiscated documents that were made during its meetings. The documents recount discussions between leaders of various civic groups on the direction of anti-U.S. beef demonstrations.
The leaders included those from the Democratic Labor Party, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, South Korean Federation of University Student Councils and Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement.
At a meeting, a leader put it simply:
“If Lee Myung-bak and the United States do not make a serious mistake, we have no choice but to wait until 2010. We need to foster a strong political opposition front by combining anti-American sentiments and President Lee’s faulty policies.”
“If we merely focus on demanding U.S. beef renegotiations, it can swamp our real intention, which is to bring down the Lee Myung-bak administration.”
Furthermore, there are suggestions in the papers of intent to paralyze downtown streets by encouraging citizens to participate in candlelight vigils at night and mobilizing their groups’ activists during the day. Another leader suggested a week-long demonstration to swamp the downtown core of the city with demonstrators. [...]
Police believe the demonstrations started as peaceful candlelight vigils and later escalated into something more. They also believe the demonstrations were masterminded from the beginning by members of various civic groups spearheaded by the Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement. [Joongang Ilbo]
Readers may remember that I speculated that the anti-US groups if successful with their beef protests would then be emboldened to move on to attacking USFK and these newly released documents confirm my earlier beliefs:
There were ideas thrown about by demonstration organizers to tie the South Korea-U.S. alliance issue into the protests.
“The moment we suggest why the Lee Myung-bak administration cannot renegotiate the beef deal, we can start to bring up our discontent towards the South Korea-U.S. alliance.”
The issue these leftist groups could still try to exploit to drive a wedge in the US-ROK alliance is the cost sharing issue which has still remained unresolved. The anti-US motives of these groups will probably come out loud and clear when President Bush visits the country on August 6th.
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1:02 pm on July 31st, 2008 1
Well, we already knew this, but the hope is that the general Korean public will discover it as well.
I certainly hope so!
Then, maybe, just maybe, they won’t be so willing to quickly believe all the lies and run out into the streets like lunatics.
Maybe they will learn a little skepticism.
One can hope!
6:55 pm on July 31st, 2008 2
People should be serving time for the disruptions caused. What happened was not just a nuisance; it’s criminal. It’s like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater.
This includes the liars at MBC as well. They can’t hide behind “translation errors.” Even if they were legitimate translation errors, they should pay a heavy price for the mayhem they helped cause.
12:20 pm on August 12th, 2008 3
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