China lobby seeks to sink President Yoon

The current President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, is a patriot committed to the unification of the Korean peninsula. Given their innate talents, it is probable that a united Korea could leave Japan behind in the speed of development stakes, replicating the example of India. The former British colony has overtaken its former colonial master in GDP, and is on track to outpace Germany and Japan. As for South Korea, already its per capita income is more than that of prosperous Taiwan, a result that owes a lot to the consistent efforts by China to hobble the island country’s development since Tsai Ing-wen was elected President of Taiwan in 2016. A patriot committed to ensuring that her people remain free, Tsai established a close defence partnership with the US, a pairing which is likely to grow stronger once Trump takes over as US President on January 20, 2025. Aware of the threat posed to his country from China assisted by North Korea and since 2022 by the Russian Federation, President Yoon took the unprecedented step of establishing a close security partnership with Japan in a mutual defence agreement brokered by the US. It was an error for Yoon to get involved in the Ukraine war rather than follow the India example of keeping away from a conflict that has little relevance to the security of the Indo-Pacific. While Taiwan taking sides with the US and its European allies can be understood, both Japan and South Korea acted against their own national interest by making an enemy of Russia. Instead, they ought to have followed the example set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the conflict, who refused to take sides. Worse, Yoon began supplying weapons to Ukraine at the behest of the US, making Russia even more determined to teach South Korea a lesson once an opportunity arose. As it now has.
There is still a chance that President Yoon may be impeached and will have to leave his official residence, the Blue House, in disgrace. Russia would have exacted its revenge on him, as would China, not to forget North Korea. President Yoon believes that the Korean peninsula can be liberated through the elimination of the ruling Kim dynasty from power, while most South Koreans believe that a better way would be to come to an accommodation with the dynasty. Some in Korea believe that were an election to the Presidency to be held across a united Korea, the indoctrination about the Kim dynasty that the population of the North has been subjected to since the 1950s may make them vote for him. This vote would be added to some in the south of the peninsula who admire him. For making North Korea a nuclear power armed with bombs and missiles. As for whether Kim can be toppled in the way Yoon believes is possible, a similar fate has been predicted by many analysts for Vladimir Putin since the 2010s, but the Russian leader remains in power. Returning to President Yoon, whatever his policy errors and faults, that he is a patriot committed to the defence of South Korea cannot be denied. Should some of his own party legislators desert him in future and back a “no confidence” vote pressed by the Opposition, he would be ousted. South Korea would be plunged into greater uncertainty, even chaos. Not a fate that the hard-working, and in several ways admirable, people of South Korea deserve.