The Butcher Of South Korea

The Butcher Of South Korea

History Of The U.S. Spreading “Freedom”

America loves to talk about freedom and democracy, but like always, that only applies when it’s convenient. When it comes to South Korea, the land of K-pop and Samsung, the U.S. helped prop up a blood-soaked regime in the name of anti-communism, and when it was finally overthrown by the people, we rewarded the tyrant with beachfront property in Hawaii.

That’s what we do: install monsters, protect them when they fall, and rewrite history to pretend we were never involved.

Chun Doo-hwan was the U.S.-backed general who became president of South Korea by seizing power through a military coup in 1979. No free election took place; he simply declared martial law, executed his political rivals, and proceeded to turn South Korea into a police state under the watchful eye of Uncle Sam.

He was able to do this because Jimmy Carter and then Ronald Reagan saw him as a reliable anti-communist asset in East Asia. They sold the U.S. on him by saying he was our guy, a “bulwark against the North,” as the sanitized language goes. Pay no mind to the torture chambers, death squads, or student massacres. As long as the monster plays ball with Washington and keeps the factories running, we not only turn a blind eye to their atrocities, we actively help.