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South Korea is an American occupied ally, that is struggling to become truly independent.
Its military and security are run by the USA, since 1953.
It is one Asian country that was not occupied in the glorious colonial era of the 19th century by a Western power.
However China and Japan from time to time have jostled to control the country.....both successfully and unsuccessfully.
For being independent and unoccupied by Western powers, it was dubbed unkindly the 'Hermit Kingdom'.
The Japanese with Western Jewish finance broke its 'isolation', where JP Morgan, a Rothschild puppet subsidiary in the JEWSA gave Japan a loan of $200 million around 1900, which the Japanese used for arms and industry. The real purpose of the Jew loan was to get Japan to attack Imperial Russia, where the two Imperial countries would go to war over Manchuria.
The Jew Banker makes money through conflict and war.
Sadly the country became divided when Jew Stalin backed the Communist movement in the North, and Jew Harry Soloman Truman backed the Pro-Japanese puppet elements and conservatives of Syngman Rhee (3-three). The American's like Korea divided, as do many other powers. A divided people arguing amongst themselves are easier to manage by foreign predatory powers than a strong united country. India/Pakistan....Cyprus, Russia/Ukraine/Belarus and so on.
South Korea is a successful country which moved from Third World developing nation to first world in one generation only. Investment in Industry and Infrastructure, and aided by exports was the key.
Korean culture is flowering, and reflects the growth, confidence and further development of the nation.
Despite many challenges I lived in Korea for one year, and can truly say it is a beautiful, modern developed country.
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South Korea spy chief jailed for 3 years for meddling in politics
National Intelligence Service personnel posted 270,000 internet messages critical of opposition party leader ahead of 2012 election
The former head of South Korea's spy
agency has been sentenced to a three-year prison term for interfering in
the 2012 general election.
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Overturning a lower court ruling, the Seoul High Court ruled on Monday
that Won Sei-hoon had "intervened in politics" by ordering staff of the
National Intelligence Service to post messages on internet sites
critical of left-leaning candidate Moon Jae-in and his Democratic Party.
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The court said Mr Won had
instructed his staff to use 716 Twitter accounts to post more than
270,000 messages that were designed to assist the campaign of Park Geun-hye in the run-up to the December 2012 election.
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Mrs Park, head of the Saenuri Party and the first woman to be elected
president of South Korea, won the vote by a narrow margin and the
conviction of Mr Won will raise new questions about the legitimacy of
her government.
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"The agency's
cyberactivity interfered in the public's decision-making and neglected
its duty to remain politically impartial," the court ruling stated,
adding that the NIS "cannot avoid the fundamental criticism that it
harmed democracy".
The Korea Herald reported that Mr Won - who was
released from prison last year after serving a 14-month term for a
separate bribery conviction - had defended himself during the hearings
and claimed that he had "worked for the country and the public".
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His legal team said they will consider the ruling before making a decision on an appeal.
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The New Politics Alliance for Democracy, the political party that has succeeded the Democratic Party, applauded the court's decision, describing it as a "landmark ruling" that proves the rule of law remains in force in South Korea.
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A spokesman for the ruling Saenuri Party expressed "regret" at the ruling, but admitted that new laws were required to stop bureaucrats meddling in politics again.
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His legal team said they will consider the ruling before making a decision on an appeal.
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The New Politics Alliance for Democracy, the political party that has succeeded the Democratic Party, applauded the court's decision, describing it as a "landmark ruling" that proves the rule of law remains in force in South Korea.
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A spokesman for the ruling Saenuri Party expressed "regret" at the ruling, but admitted that new laws were required to stop bureaucrats meddling in politics again.
