President Obama returns Korean
national treasures to South Korean
President Park Geun-hye. The nine items were turned into the U.S.
government by the family
of a deceased Marine lieutenant who had
served in the Korean War.
Pro-U.S. 'Sycophants' Use Cultural Treasures to Insult DPRK (Korea Central News Agency, North Korea)
Was South Korea President Park Geun-hye
too polite to President Obama when he returned nine cultural artifacts to the
country during his recent visit? According to Pyongyang's state-run Korea
Central News Agency, the North's Bureau of Guidance for the Preservation of National Heritage accuses Park of 'kowtowing' to her master Obama when he returned the items, and then 'insulting' her fellow Koreans by asserting they were
'plundered' by the North.
This column from Kim Jong-un's state-run media was rather polite compared to a few days earlier, when the North Korean regime called South Korea President Park Geun-hye a 'crafty prostitute' in thrall to her 'pimp' Barack Obama.
Pyongyang:
The Park Geun-hye group let loose provocative remarks about how the
cultural treasures south Korea received from U.S. President Obama during his
junket to Seoul had been "looted by north Korea."
[As
a form of linguistic protest over the nation's separation and as a way of
insulting South Korea, Pyongyang's state media has long used lower case letters
to spell "south Korea." Doing the same for "north Korea" is
a new development.]
Even
after the great length of time it took Seoul to take the treasures back from
the United States, Park failed to utter the proper words to her master. Even
now, she repeatedly kowtowed to him and expressed gratitude.
On
Thursday [May 1], a spokesman for the Bureau of Guidance for the Preservation
of National Heritage said in a statement that the Park group's abuse of
national treasures for the sake of its confrontation with their fellow
countrymen is unpardonable.
The
statement continued:
Despite
the fact that even their American masters admitted that the treasures were
taken by the United States, the Park group was hell-bent on a confrontation
with their fellow countrymen. Sycophantically and traitorously, it malignantly
hurled mud at their compatriots, floating a story about the north's "plunder
of treasures."
[Editor's
Note: The Korea Timesreported in Nov. 21, 2013: According
to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the
cultural artifacts were turned over to HSI special
agents by the family of a deceased Marine lieutenant who had served in the
Korean War. In 1950, the lieutenant had found the seals in a ditch near the Deoksugung Palace, which had just been ransacked by Chinese
and North Korean soldiers.]
This
is an intolerable insult, which mocks our inviolable national cultural
treasures, and is an unpardonable provocation to the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea.
The
most valuable of the nine cultural artifacts received from Obama included the Hwangjejibo Seal of the Emperor, a national seal made to
mark the establishment of the Korean Empire [1897]. This and other state seals
and stamps are just a few of the many cultural treasures looted by the U.S.
imperialist aggressors.
The nine seals include
three national seals of the Korean Empire, one
royal seal of the Korean
Empire, and five signets of the Joseon Royal
Court of the Joseon Dynasty. The Korean Empire (1897-1910) followed
Though
belatedly, the U.S. was obliged to apologize to the Korean nation for its
brigandish and illegal plunder of cultural treasures, returning all of them.
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Yet
Park Geun-hye allowed pro-U.S. stooges of Chongwadae [the Blue House or
Presidential Office] claim shamelessly that "the treasures were looted by
the north." This is clear demonstration of what a wicked and despicable U.S.
servant she is.
People
all walks of life in south Korea should never pardon the Park group for diminishing
the dignity and interests of the Korean nation. Keen on confrontation with the DPRK, the Park group serves its American master. For
playing games with these national treasures, people in south Korea should hurl
this horde of traitors onto the trash heap of history.
