U.S. investigative authorities have busted an international drug trafficking ring that smuggled Korean-made GBL (raw material for date rape drugs) and distributed it in the U.S. East Coast region. [Photo: U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington D.C.] 

There are not a few patriotic Koreans who are puffed up with pride, believing that South Korea is a great nation among the top 10 economies and ranks first in the world in defense industry.

I also know that Korea's economy and defense industry have developed. I also know that among the countries I have visited, it is by far the best country for people to live comfortably.

However, the reason I am writing this article today is because I am so angry and resentful of the foolishness of the people who are being deceived by spies and traitorous politicians, turning this nation, which was built by past presidents who were branded dictators, driven out, shot to death, and imprisoned, into a vassal state of North Korea and China, without knowing how to protect this great South Korea. I am crying out "Evil!" in frustration.

In the early 2000s, when I first set foot in this land, Korea was the only drug-free country in the world. Travelers passing through Korea were not subjected to any drug testing in other countries.

But what about now? Not long ago, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 11 members of an international drug ring that distributed GBL, known as a date rape drug. Surprisingly, the core supply chain of this massive criminal organization was centered in Seoul, South Korea.

The main culprits, Koreans, brazenly set up disguised beauty (cosmetics) companies and, under the guise of K-beauty products, shipped 600 liters of drug precursors to the U.S. every month. U.S. drug enforcement agencies, in cooperation with the Korean police, seized 1.5 tons of GBL on-site in Seoul.

Until now, imported drugs have spread to young students and the military, sickening the entire nation. However, now, beyond external smuggling, Korea has become a drug-producing and distributing country that directly manufactures and massively smuggles drugs abroad.

The problem is that despite the presence of numerous crime investigation systems in Korea, such as the National Intelligence Service, the prosecution, and the police, they were completely unaware of large-scale drug manufacturing incidents and only learned about them through reverse tracing from the U.S.

Is it even plausible that they were unaware of major international crimes operating openly in the heart of South Korea's capital, not in some remote rural area?

What on earth are all those investigative and surveillance agencies doing, all those well-paid sinecures?

After all, if criminals and traitors have infiltrated the entire nation of South Korea, how can anything be done correctly?

The executive branch of South Korea is staffed with criminals, from the president and prime minister on down. It is also an anti-American and anti-Japanese government, staffed with pro-North Korean and pro-Chinese elements.

The legislative branch of South Korea is also occupied by criminals. The opposition party impeached and imprisoned its own president, while the ruling party is creating laws like the "Lee Jae-myung's Son Slander Ban" and 105 ruling party lawmakers are forming a group called 'Gongchwimo' (Association for the Withdrawal of Lee Jae-myung's Indictment).

The judicial branch of South Korea has been reduced to slaves of money and power, imprisoning innocent presidents and patriots by fabricating charges, while protecting criminals in power and even spies.

The South Korean economy is dominated by pro-North Korean political gangsters disguised as labor unions, who are driving companies to bankruptcy or out of the country.

The South Korean military is led by a Minister of National Defense who knows nothing about the military and "trash generals." They are giving frontline soldiers batons instead of rifles, disbanding drone commands and corps if North Korea dislikes them, and are a laughable military that doesn't even know who the enemy is.

In South Korean education, leftists have taken over and are indoctrinating children to praise North Korea and teaching that the Korean War was provoked by the United States. Universities, also influenced by leftists, push students to protest by throwing stones at the embassies of friendly nations instead of studying, thereby nurturing political successors.

The public authority of South Korea is also a mere figurehead. The National Intelligence Service, since the Kim Dae-jung administration, has been purged of its effective agents for over 20 years, rendering them like cats without claws.

The South Korean prosecution is being belittled, harassed, and chased by criminals. Even their very existence is precarious.

The police have become pro-North Korean and pro-Chinese, treating their own citizens with contempt while protecting Chinese nationals and only pursuing violators of the May 18 Special Act.

Religion has also been taken over by pro-North Korean traitors and those driven by greed. It has degenerated from a religion for the nation and its people into a "ruined religion" that destroys the country and its citizens.

Few are outraged that South Korea, which used to export its advanced economy and culture worldwide, has been taken over by lackeys of North Korea and China, who have established drug factories and turned it into a country that produces and exports drugs.

Thus, the great South Korea is gradually becoming ill and dying.

◆ Advisor Kim Tae-san

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