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Following the Moon Jae-in administration, the Lee Jae-myung administration is also practically bowing down to North Korea and offering all sorts of flattery. They are indulging in every conceivable act of flattery, such as halting all distribution of leaflets and broadcasts against North Korea for fear of offending them, apologizing for drone incursions, engaging in disputes with the UN Command over DMZ access procedures, resuming the September 19 Military Agreement, and disbanding the Drone Command.

That's not all. They have unilaterally opened access to Rodong Sinmun, propaganda material of the Kim Il-sung family, and South Korea has been excluded from ROK-US-Japan joint military exercises. In fact, the leftists have shown their utmost loyalty to the Kim family by impeaching and imprisoning conservative presidents twice.

Despite all this, for some reason, Kim Jong-un treats the Lee Jae-myung government with increasing contempt, hurling all sorts of insults.

Until now, Kim Yo-jong has been the one stepping forward to treat the Moon Jae-in and Lee Jae-myung administrations as trash. However, this time, Kim Jong-un himself has officially declared at the 9th Congress of the Workers' Party that South Korea will be completely excluded from the category of compatriots, thus treating the Lee Jae-myung administration as traitors to the nation.

Do you know why North Korea hurls such insults at the leftists who offer such loyalty, and why they are now even talking about removing them from the category of compatriots? Of course, some might say that Kim Jong-un is just pretending to insult Lee Jae-myung to shield him.

No. The real reason Kim Jong-un mocks and insults the South Korean government like a neighborhood mutt is because the South Korean leftists have sold out half of the Korean peninsula, South Korea, to China.

In reality, Kim Jong-un despises China more than the United States. Those who claim to know a lot might argue that North Korea is a colony of China and that the Kim regime exists because of China.

Kim Yo-jong attends a reception for a military parade in Beijing last September. [AFP=Yonhap News/Composite image] 

Absolutely not. The Kim family in North Korea has historically rejected China's hegemonic policies. Therefore, North Korea has advocated for a line of independence in ideology and politics.

In the era of Kim Jong-un, Chinese citizens were completely expelled from North Korea. He publicly assassinated his half-brother Kim Jong-nam, who was protected by China, at a foreign airport. Jang Song-thaek, who was a key figure in China relations, was also brutally purged.

Both Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un have openly made remarks criticizing the Chinese government to US officials and implicitly supported the presence of US forces in Korea. Kim Jong-un is wary of and dislikes China to that extent.

China has not abandoned its ambitions for expansion on the Korean peninsula even now. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that North Korea began developing nuclear weapons to thwart China's ambition to take over the Korean peninsula, even if they do not express it openly. North Korea even calls China an enemy of a thousand years.

However, the Lee Jae-myung administration, while pretending to be loyal to North Korea, has betrayed North Korea behind its back and sold out the country by colluding with China. Look at South Korea today. They are bringing in a large number of Chinese nationals and giving them more preferential treatment than South Korean patriots. They have even enacted a law to imprison anyone who criticizes China for five years.

In other words, Lee Jae-myung is putting on a show of loyalty to Kim Jong-un while secretly handing over South Korea, half of the Korean peninsula, to China. That is why Kim Jong-un views the Lee Jae-myung administration as complete traitors and national betrayers.

Originally, the leftists were those who betrayed the Republic of Korea and were loyal to the Kim family in North Korea. However, as time passed, the influence of the Kim family in North Korea has gradually waned, and their future is completely uncertain. Thus, the South Korean leftists, like rats fleeing a sinking ship, are desperately seeking an escape route, and unable to wait any longer, they have sold out Korea to become a vassal state of China.

Therefore, it is only natural that Kim Jong-un treats the South Korean leftists like dirty trash. It seems that the day when the South Korean leftists are caught between the two bullets of the United States and North Korea is not far off.

◆ Advisor Kim Tae-san

Advisor to Hankukbo, former representative of a North Korean trading company in the Czech Republic. In South Korea, he has worked as vice president of the North Korean Society Research Institute, providing deep insights and experience on inter-Korean relations and North Korean issues.