Theory of Heavenly Unified Korea
Hello, I’m Jin Sung-bae, the president of the Peace Foundation. This week, I will highlight what I explained last week. Our minds are still lingering in the aftermath of the recent presidential election. I hope it will be a time to specifically examine the real problems of the Heavenly Korea Peninsula and Heavenly Unified Korea.
What surprised me through this presidential election was that I realized the left-wing ideology of the activist group, which was consolidated over 21 years starting from the previous generation in 1987, was solidly formed by pouring on layers of concrete. As you all know, winning by 0.73% means there was a high possibility of losing. 230,000 out of 32 million voters are crying their eyes red for neglecting to vote. The bottom line is, it’s scary to witness the outcome of this presidential election in such a close game where it cannot realty be firmly stated that one has won or lost. I’m not the only one surprised by the results of this presidential election, I’m sure there are others here who stayed up all night glued to the tube. I went to bed thinking the game was over. But around 1 am, it was kind of weird. I heard shouts outside, so I watched again. The game turned around many times over.
Today’s reality is like a replay of the past. It seems that the image of the South-South conflict that unfolded in South Korea in the five years from Liberation up to the Korean War was reproduced. At that time, the Left commanded about 70 percent, and the Right only about 30 percent. Park Heon-young’s Reconstructionist Communist Party had been active since 1920 founding the Korean Labor Party, which evolved into the Communist Party and the Workers’ Party of Korea. Park Heon-young set out to do pro-Japanese group liquidation, free confiscation, and free distribution. It was a communist society pushing for a Marxist communist revolution in totality. His rival on the Left, Yeo Un-hyung, founded the National Foundation Preparation Committee and organized the People’s Committee. He later claimed young Kim Dae Jung was a member of his organization at that time. Yeo Un-hyung advocated national liberation rather than Marxist revolution. The birth of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy in the sloping playing fields of that time was founded as a liberal democracy on the rugged terrain of conflict between the Soviet Union’s Stalin, Mao Tse-tung’s Communist Party, and Kim Il Sung. I truly think this system was, in a way, a miracle worked by heaven.
North Korea before the war was dotted with huge military factories left behind by the Japanese. At that time, intellectuals versed in the natural sciences were absolutely indispensable. However, the U.S. military government proposed a plan to close Kyungsung Imperial University and establish a national university, Seoul National University. So the students and professors closed the school. After that, about 90 percent of Seoul National University students and professors were captured and defected to Daedong through the struggle after working as agents in the South. This had a tremendous impact on society at the time. After that, the North Korean hydroelectric power plant suddenly stopped transmitting power to the South. Most industrial facilities were crippled without power, so students majoring in science and technology went to North Korea in search of jobs. I think that former extreme South-South conflict before the Korean War has returned now in the left vs. right South-South conflict in this current presidential election. In the past and again now, the terrain of confrontation between the left and right is a tilted playground, and I think this election shows the nature of a system war in that respect.
In 1987, North Korea switched from Marxism to Juche ideology, revising the Constitution. Along with the North Korean ideological sea-change, the left-wing movement of the Republic of Korea was divided into PD and NL. This may be a well-known fact. The PD faction is structuralism centered on Marxism-Leninism—in other words, the workers’ revolution from below. But NL is a bit different. Jusapa is a ritualistic movement. It basically emphasizes revolution from the top down through ritualization. After that, it became the birthplace of the KCTU, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, a.k.a. Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union, which you know well. The fact is, this ritualized Juche ideology is now dominated by 586 politicians with enormous firepower that covering the Blue House, the National Assembly, legislation, justice department, administration, media, and the entire labor community. It mirrors the sloping playground of South-South conflict after liberation. These PD- and NL-based left-wing movements now wield a lot of influence. Sim Sang Jung’s Justice Party is a PD, emphasizing emancipation. Lee Seok-ki’s Unified Progressive Party espouses NL-affiliated mainstream ideology. If you look at the process of releasing former President Park Geun-hye and Lee Seok-ki together this time, in a way, it’s retaliation for the Candlelight Revolution. It’s a full-fledged popular movement groundswell. It makes you feel these things poignantly and shows the true nature of left-wing ideas. A full-fledged ideological struggle is unfolding. I see all the signs of a system war.
As you know, 586 government administrators control 2,295 civic groups in Seoul and 14,000 organizations nationwide, including the KCTU, the KTU, and the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. I won’t list them one by one. These are among the organizations that prepare to welcome Kim Jong-un when he comes to Seoul. How terrifying these things can be! The presidential election is characterized by ideological struggle and system war, whether it is for maintaining the system or changing the system. The reason why this fear has been revealed is because of the 0.73 percent gap, 230,000 votes. This is a close call when compared to 300,000 invalid votes. We may be talking about this kind of person, but a politician nicknamed “Choksae” predicted that the Democratic Party would win the last general election by 180 seats. Likewise, he predicted that the Democratic Party would see victory by a gap of 1 percent. Just as the left liberal 586-strong Democrats won the general election exactly according to the last prediction by 180 seats, many people were worried that the prediction would come true this presidential election again. I’m one of those people.
After the presidential election, the 300,000 invalid votes and winning just only by 230,000 votes, or 0.73 percent can be seen as a rigged election. I expected a high possibility of movements insisting on re-counting votes to see whether the election was rigged or not. Yet, it was very quiet. This is because the Democrats accepted their lost, and no conflict or struggle over recounts surfaced. This Corona pre-election, poor management of the election committee, and basket voting violating the constitutional proviso of direct secret elections, are probably well known to you. What’s wrong with this, seeing such invalid votes, a victory of 0.73 percent, and poor election management in the midst of such a close process, yet accepting the presidential election and not asking for a recount? It’s suspicious. We both should be suspecting this on each side. It is said that if the number of voters who voted and the number of votes are compared, there will be a big disparity. It is then when such concerns are raised. I can’t help but suspect a deeper reason for this than poor management by the Election Commission.
In any case, the outcome of this presidential election was a miraculous victory by a hair’s breadth. When we look at the left-wing movement historically, the left has the power to mobilize in an instant, including the KCTU. As we can see in the latest incident of Hyosun and Misun, two young 14-year-old middle school girls who died tragically in a U.S. military armored vehicle, caused a tremendous storm. And I’m sure you’re well aware of what happened, gaining momentum with strong justification to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. And then, as you all know, the mad cow disease crisis, where 600 organizations instantly voiced concern about American beef. I have lived in U.S. for a long time, but American cows are healthy and strong. It’s no better than Korean beef. It was the mad cow disease that took the Lee Myung Bak administration by surprise with such absurd stories and prepared the ground for the fall of his regime. Then, through the Sewol ferry incident and the Candlelight Revolution, the Park Geun-hye regime resigned. This very morning former President Park Geun-hye went to her hometown and issued a statement. I couldn’t listen to her speech today because of our lecture.
However, it may be a coincidence, but the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a rally in Yeouido a month before the presidential election. At this time, Yang Kyung-soo, chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, said, “Let us run to socialism, to fight over the unequal world.” Lee Baek-yoon, an independent member of the KCTU’s Metal Workers’ Union, said, “We cannot do capitalism anymore, so let’s do socialism!” He officially raised the issue of socialism at a KCTU rally a month before the presidential election. This was a popular uprising that had a lot of meaning in conjunction with the presidential election, and we see this. Here, I don’t have to talk about the internal affairs or ethical issues that candidate Lee Jae-myung has. However, the reform and revolutionary nature of candidate Lee Jae-myung were very prominent. Lee Seok-ki’s election campaign centered on the Eastern Union of the Unified Progressive Party, land openness, universal welfare, income-led growth, nationalism. These candidates all highlighted socialist revolution. We can see this election signals a change in the system.
Income-driven growth has failed. The KCTU, the labor union of large corporations, raised wages for those who earn more than 100 million won, so they can afford to buy more goods on the market and control the market, leading to income and workers’ income. Their theory failed to address the actual reality. It’s a problem of departmentalization, illustrating a number of policy failures by the current ruling party. Lee Jae-Myung basically failed to make the cut. I talked about the “squid game”, but Squid Game is a movie that shows the character of capitalism very well. This film aroused the interest of people around the world. Let’s take a look at a clip.
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I can’t believe it. Dalgona and Mugunghwa Bloomed are Korean games we all enjoyed playing as kids. Such games depict the current political system and economic system, where the investment of capital determines the winner and the loser. When the price of apartments goes up, won’t there be losers? Squid Game reveals the nature of the most basic power of capital. Among them, tug-of-war is a very representative game. When I saw this scene, I was dumbfounded at how serious we are. Doesn’t it make you speechless? This system war, this vote of liberal democracy, this election is in some ways like a tug-of-war game right here and now, a life-and-death survival game. Can you deny that it was such a game? I can’t deny it. 0.73 means the right wing and the People’s Power Party to maintain the system. It’s an ideological struggle against the left wing and the Democratic Party of Korea to change the system, and the result is divided equally with about 16 million votes each. 16 million votes for the Democratic Party, 16 million for the Power of the People. It’s a miraculous victory for the right wing, 0.73 percent.
Yoon Seok-yeol talks about integration. The presidential election was split by 16 million votes each, and it was like watching the tug-of-war on Squid Game. Until now, if you said “liquidation”, it was liquidation of the right. However, Yoon Seok-yeol insisted on integration, saying, “The power of the people and the party of the people have integrated,” but will they integrate with the Democratic Party and open politics? I think it will be quite difficult. More likely we’ll be seeing ideological hatred and liquidation of the left wing. After all, two presidents went to prison and four NIS directors are currently in prison for cleaning up. In these ideological conflicts, the NIS chiefs can actually be seen as symbols of the right-wing system, but I think the left will be different in clearing up the liquidations of the right.
Humanism is the basis of the right wing. The political system is based on humanism. British and French democracy based on empiricism and humanism under a democratic system of compassion. Human rights, freedom, and equality are the basic pillars of liberal democracy. Left-wing ideology is class hatred based on material. On the contrary, that is not the ideology of the right. The liberal democratic system is based on natural human rights and humanism. That is why the passion of the right must be rational and embrace humanism to keep the legal order. The left thinks that, for the sake of revolution, it’s fair to murder someone. If we speak of revolution, I think that right-wing ideology, which rationalizes everything, ought to be handled based on moral humanism, common-sense legal treatment, and legal punishment based on reason.
In that sense, the left is an ideology based on labor, whereas liberal democracy is a common-sense legal order system based on reason. So essentially, if you can’t unite, you should not retaliate by doing the same with hatred of these leftists. I think this is the heat of integration that the entire nation wants. The flaming passion of Godism is peace essentialism, the Godism in the declaration of Dr. Moon and Dr. Han at the time of the Watergate scandal, the message to forgive and reconcile even though President Nixon did something wrong. This rage of Godism is not hatred of the enemy, but the ethics of parental responsibility and Hyojeong where I take the blame. Beyond humanism’s moral anger and hatred, sacrificing and loving for the enemy with hatred toward myself is the life of Dr. Moon and Han, who have lived a life of peace essentialism. We can define this as a fact of Shimjeong.
Co-righteousness centers neither on the individual nor the class. It’s a political model based on the family. Co-righteousness and co-prosperity mean brotherly democratic government centered on parents, of the brothers, by the brothers, and for the brothers. Unlike the selfish desire of capitalism to pursue private interests, the essence of co-righteousness politics is with Shimjeong, parental love, empathy for neighbors as brothers, and sharing between the whole and the individual. The point of co-righteousness politics is simple. The emotion of sharing the whole with the individual can be defined as a static impulse of the mind. But Shimjeong is an emotion that shares the whole with the individual. It’s something that takes some thought to grasp.
That’s why the conservative and progressive parties can become brother parties when parents and Heavenly Parents are at the center, despite the individual selfishness or the social class partisanship of capitalism. The whole and individual can be one. It’s something that can be living and organic. Here, the partisanship of elections and class partisanship emphasizes unity, unification, and brotherly love rather than extreme competition. The election system of modern democracy leads to failure in representation. The free democratic system means the people are the masters of the election, but as soon as the election is over, the people become slaves. After being elected as a representative, to put it simply, the mind before going to poop and the mind after changes. The infinite competition of elections, the life-and-death survival game, as you saw in Squid Game earlier, is another representative failure of the liberal democratic election system. We need to be able to fundamentally address these issues.
You can’t lead this no-holds-barred competition to unity without co-prosperity. We cannot solve the hierarchical partisanship of the left and the selfish partisanship of the right without having Heavenly Parents and True Parents as the basic center. This is because it’s all a survival game. Then can it happen that the 49 to 51, the 0.73 percent of elected representatives monopolize the regime? I’m talking about integration because it doesn’t work. Integration is just integration shown just on the surface. Aren’t you feeling hatred inside? It shows. I don’t think it is an easy issue.
Co-prosperity proposes politics that shares power in the way of brotherhood. Individual purpose and whole purpose by the universal ethics of conscience. The universal ethics of conscience is co-prosperity. The left-wing ideology of the 586 ideological regimes cannot overcome without a brother’s party centered on parents based on co-prosperity, a co-prosperity political system in which an individual and their neighbors become one, individuals and the whole. The right has no ideology as such. It’s very simple humanism. It’s humanism that focuses on simple human rights. That’s why the right doesn’t have the power to unite. In this whole miasma, it is the 70 percent versus 30 percent of the post-liberation conflict between the left and right all over again. As I watched the current presidential election, I was terrified. This is not an easy fight.
At this point I’d like to reconsider the meaning of the Peace Summit 2022. It is called a miracle that right-wing U.S. figures Vice President Pence, Mike Pompeo, and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen all came to Korea. Behind this was actually our blessed family, Senator Newt Gingrich, and Senator Dan Burton.
I invited Senator Dan Burton to submit his video clip for an academic conference held by Hyojeong Academic Foundation last August. The day before, the U.S. had lost the war in Afghanistan and refugees were falling from planes. So, it was an academic seminar run by our Academic Foundation after the United States failed and withdrew from Afghanistan. Senator Dan Burton said he sent a letter to the White House and China warning North Korea not to act rashly right after sharing his message with his fellow lawmakers. Our professors and scholars all stood up and gave him a round of applause. Now we face such a severe situation where we wonder who can say the outcome of that war will not be the fate of the Republic of Korea in the wake of Afghanistan. Thanks to Senator Dan Burton, Newt Gingrich, and blessed families, the Republic of Korea can maintain.
34,000 U.S. soldiers died on Korean soil. Their spirits are in the war memorial. You should all be sure to go there and pay respects to those young men 20, 21, 24 years old. Everyone, there is Martin Street in Cheonan. Colonel Martin was the first American soldier to die. Colonel Martin was killed while responding directly with a mortar against the North Korean communist forces pushing in. The street next to the Cheonan freeway is named Martin Street, and there is Martin Park, with a memorial for Colonel Martin. The young colonel was killed there. Such young blood, especially American generals and soldiers whose souls are breathing on Korean soil. The blessed families are proud of them. It is God’s history that they basically planted the heart and conscience of Father Moon and Mother Moon, whom they love more than anyone else.
Justice responds to the call of conscience. Prime Minister Hun Sen is a political leader who responded to the call of conscience. There was an ASEAN Conference and the U.N. General Assembly, but he came to the UPF event hosted by Mother Moon. Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was criticized as a dictator, said he came to Korea because of a friend, Rev. Han, he met at the presidential meeting with president Moon Jae-in. Who made Prime Minister Hun Sen like this? He was shedding tears as he received the SunHak Peace Prize. The history of God is behind it. On February 15th, we held a victory celebration. This is a hidden story. I published the English version of the Theory of Heavenly Unified Korea on the same day that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s autobiography came out. I offered the book to Rev. Han through Yoon Young-ho, the General Secretary of International Headquarters. Rev. Han said to give the first book to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and ordered Dr. Yoon to educate him and all the Cambodian people. I was thrilled. So this book was the second book I offered.
Justice is conscience, and justice responds to God’s call. In that sense, what kind of lectures and tactics make up the agenda in our campaign to build a Heavenly Unified Korea? Our ultimate goal is to build Heavenly Unified Korea into a God-centered unified country through co-prosperity, Hyojeong filial piety, and national movement taking the lead in the popular ideological struggle. In that respect, I believe that a world of freedom and equality must be achieved, in which we invest our whole heart for Heavenly Unified Korea. The Godism of Heavenly Unified Korea is not a movement opposing and denying liberal democracy. It’s a movement to return to the original position of liberal democracy. The original starting point of liberal democracy is the French Enlightenment. Since their free, equal property rights have been restored from natural human rights, liberal democracy can be recovered only when God is the center, and natural human rights restored through God’s principle.
The same goes for equality. Equality of socialism takes on the right meaning when it is based on Shimjeong. Therefore, in the end, from a realistic point of view, the owner and subject of the Korean Peninsula is God our Heavenly Parent. The main subject of the Korean Peninsula is not Father-Leader Kim Il-sung and not democracy or Juche ideology, but it is Heavenly Parent who is at the center of the Korean Peninsula. Only by naturalism based on Godism can the concepts of freedom of liberal democracy and equality under socialism be fundamentally solved. It is our task to solve this fundamental problem.
This means a nation. This is the heavenly unified view of the organic world of Korea. But it takes time to explain, so I’ll skip it. Liberal democracy is a worldview based on mechanistic materialism. Socialism and communism are worldviews based on dialectical materialism. Under these two types of liberal democracy, every nation is reduced to individual human rights. Then socialism is where everything is reduced to nationalism, to totalitarianism. So the values of the state and the values of the individual are the same as those of the individual. Instead of human rights based on the state, liberal democracy is a system that organically replaces the whole with the individual.
A philosopher named Hegel said this. It would take a lot of time, but absolute God thinks inside Himself: This is Logos. He came up with the dialectic. God created all things. It’s a natural dialectic that creates all things, and leads to creating humans at the end. This is the mental dialectic. Hegel systematized this dialectical cycle of creating nature and humans according to the Logos in God. And Hegel said that a nation is a rational state where absolute freedom of spirit is realized. After all, the fundamental purpose of historical development and the creation is a heterogeneous state. Creating a rational state basically takes God’s creation a step beyond. So the goal of all history is to realize the freedom of a rational state, realize a rational state, and realize the ideology of absolute spirit.
Right. This co-righteousness is the ideal of Hyojeong ideology. The three subjects of righteousness are God, individuals, and neighbors. As I’ve said before, what is a country? Neighbors are families, then races, peoples, and countries. The enlargement of the neighborhood is a country. State is the basic concept of co-righteousness. God, me and the state are the three ontologies. What is the most similar thing to God? It is family, but the state is a prerequisite. In God’s concept, in His Logos, the existence of the state is me who started from God and me who has started from the state. This is where God’s ideal is realized, and it is the ideal of Hyojeong. Emancipation of mind and conscience basically come about through this theory of state.
This takes a long time, so I can’t tell you in detail. I have to explain the final conclusion of this election, but I don’t have time. So, I can’t tell you everything I wanted to share, but in conclusion, what we call the united dual characteristics is the most basic theoretical framework of Principle, right? It’s a conceptual framework. It’s an all-around key that can explain everything with this conceptual framework. Liberal democracy is an iconoclastic value, right? In a liberal democracy, the source of power comes from the people, comes from the election. The people, liberal democracy, is the right wing that regards the people as the internal nature. Socialism and Juche ideology are defined based on the value of labor, which is the external form and material value; here, the people are objects. The people in liberal democracy are subject; they are in the same position as God. Then, in socialist or sectarian regimes, the people are the object. The subject is the Father-Leader. So, the beginning of the power of liberal democracy stems from the election. It’s the national election. The source of power for socialism is the revolution and the gun. Lenin said it, right? “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.”
What is the beginning of power? It’s not internal nature nor external form. It’s not liberal democracy nor socialism. The beginning of power is God. God, God’s charisma, Heavenly Parent’s charisma and grace is the starting point of power. The power of the people in liberal democracy is hypothetical power. Hypothetical power. Moreover, the power of socialism is the power of air. This is what’s called “the power of air” in the Bible. It’s fake power. Liberal democracy and socialism are all fake power. I’ll finish by saying that true power is Heavenly Unified Korea and a Heavenly Unified world embodying God’s charisma, centering on God’s Shimjeong and love.
I will end here. Thank you.