Korean Media Speaking Out on MacArthur Controversy

The Korean media is slowly but surely starting to speak out against removing the General MacArthur statue in Incheon. Here is the latest editorial from the Korea Herald that condemns the removal of the statue:

Professor Kang at Seoul’s Dongkuk University, who stirred a controversy by eulogizing the late North Korean leader Kim Il-sung on the guest book at his birthplace during his visit to Pyongyang in 2001, said in an article he contributed to an Internet newspaper that U.S. forces were responsible for the 4 million deaths during the Korean War and Gen. MacArthur should be condemned as their commander.

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Thus, Kang helped the anti-MacArthur demonstrators articulate their cause. They regret that the Republic of Korea was saved from being communized through the North Korean invasion and its liberal democratic system was preserved by the American-led U.N. Forces. His idea, epitomized as “unification over everything,” does not deserve any more space in this newspaper, but the problem is that he must be trying to indoctrinate his students with this gross historical distortion. Or, should we not be worried too much because our young, sensitive students must know better?

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Whether they like the American general or not the statue is part of history, a memorial of a war that saved tens of millions from sharing the misery which befell their brothers and sisters now in the North.

I think the author is naive to think that Korean students know better than to listen to the crap these professors put out because a lot of them do. However, it is good to see at least some in the Korean media are at least speaking out against these revisionist leftists.