In the monthly magazine Hanada released today, the following is from Mr. Sekihei's series titled "Don't deal with China and South Korea's perception of history (Middle)."
In the previous installment of this series, I discussed the bullshit of China's "historical awareness" by citing various examples.
At any rate, both inwardly and outwardly, China incessantly conceals and erases inconvenient historical facts while at the same time arbitrarily fabricating inconvenient "historical facts" whenever necessary.
It is precisely China's consistent attitude toward history.
This kind of bullshit attitude is not the "patent" of China alone.
The people of the Korean Peninsula, who used to call themselves "Little China," are actually "masters" and "habitual criminals" of historical concealment and fabrication.
For example, in the case of North Korea, the "Legend of Mount Paektu" is a famous official story about Kim Il Sung.
In other words, it is touted as a "fact of history" that "the great Comrade Kim Il Sung, a general of steel with a hundred victories in a hundred battles," is based on the sacred place of the people, Paektu Mountain, and uses magical tactics such as Shukuchi method and transformation technique and he defeated the Japanese army.
Of course, this is an outright lie, a mere childish fabrication.
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, Kim Il Sung lived in the northeastern region of China from the time he was a junior high school student. When he came of age, he joined the Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army (later known as the Northeastern Anti-Japanese Army) under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and rose to prominence.
Although his small unit has a "track record" of once crossing the border from China and attacking a town in northern Korea, murdering and arson, it has never fought an "anti-Japanese war" against Japanese troops in Korea, much less climbed "Paektu Mountain" and made a base there.
Incidentally, after the Northeastern Anti-Japanese Union Army was annihilated by the Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria, Kim Il Sung fled from the Korean Peninsula to the Soviet Union, which was even farther away.
In North Korea's "authentic history," however, the "legend of Mount Paektu" is solemnly described as a "historical fact.
And that glorious "legend" is also used as an excellent basis to justify the absolute rule of the Kim family today.
In other words, the very foundation of the current Kim dynasty's rule is based on the fabrication of history.
South Korea, another peninsular nation, also has a "little difference" from North Korea's attitude toward history.
For example, regarding the history of Japan-South Korea relations, South Korea first thoroughly conceals and erases historical facts.
During the period of Japanese annexation from 1910 to 1945, the Japanese government and the Governor-General of Korea contributed significantly to the modernization and economic construction of the Korean Peninsula.
During that period, the Japanese government invested about 10 percent of the national budget in the peninsula over several decades to build infrastructures such as railroads, roads, water supply, sewerage, and electricity, as well as hospitals, schools, and factories, and to develop a modern education system and a modern medical system. During the Japanese annexation, it abolished the bad status system of the Joseon Dynasty, and status emancipation was realized.
During the Japanese annexation era, the number of various schools was increased from just about 40 to more than 1000, and Hangul, a character unique to Korea, became widespread.
In this sense, Korea would not be the modern nation it is today without Japan's excellent governance policies for the Korean peninsula. Still, these historical facts are naturally completely erased or hidden from Korean historical accounts.
The history of the "Japanese colonial era" that they wrote in the "history of crime" that the Japanese "do their best to do bad deeds" on the Korean Peninsula.
On the other hand, South Korea has consistently and repeatedly extorted Japan based on its fabricated history.
For example, South Korea has long been using the falsehood of "comfort women forced into service by the Japanese military" as a tool for diplomatically beating Japan and extorting money from the Japanese government.
When this critical "money-grab" gradually loses its effectiveness, they come up with a fake story of "forced recruitment of Korean laborers" and use it as a promising material for extortion against the Japanese government and many Japanese companies.
In this case, historical facts are not necessary.
They just want something to beat and extort Japan.
To do so, they just need to create fake "historical facts" from scratch that do not exist.
In this way, North Korea and South Korea, the two states on the Korean peninsula, have the same attitude toward history and are the same kind of people.
Of course, the way the two peninsulas deal with history is the same as that of China on the mainland, and the essence is the same.
The question is, how did China and the two peninsulas come to have such a bullshit attitude toward history?
What lies at the depths of their abnormal mental structure that allows them to obliterate or fabricate historical facts with impunity?
If we explore this question, we will arrive at an ideological tradition shared by China and the Korean Peninsula, but I will leave that for the following article.
