It has been 58 years since Park Chung Hee seized power by staging a military coup in south Korea.

Park launched the military coup on the early morning of May 16 1961 by taking advantage of the turbulent situation in which the locals’ struggle for anti-fascist democratization expanded further after the April 1960 popular uprising.

Under the rule of the Yushin dictator, the enthusiasm for reunification was dampened and the cruellest and most barbarous military fascist rule was enforced in south Korea.

Talking about “confrontation existing with dialogue”, he cast away the promise made with the north and pursued a vicious policy of confrontation with the fellow countrymen.

As soon as he ratified the July 4 1972 North-South Joint Statement, he reversed the agreed items of the joint statement, saying they cannot entrust their destiny to a piece of paper.

He denied the principle of national independence clarifying that the north and south should settle the reunification issue by the Korean nation itself without relying on foreign forces and begged for the eternal presence of US troops in south Korea, saying the UN is not a foreign force and the longer the US forces stay, the better. He also responded to the north’s principle of peaceful reunification with confrontation and war preparations and the principle of great national unity with anti-communist rackets. Moreover, he issued a “special statement” insisting on the simultaneous admission to the UN by the north and south before the ink of the joint statement became dry, undisguisedly revealing the scheme to perpetuate the division of Korea.

The end of Park Chung Hee who was shot dead by his henchman clearly showed how miserable the fate of those who run counter to the nation’s reunification aspirations is.

His clan committed crimes against the nation through generations.

After taking power his daughter Park Geun Hye was hell-bent on confrontation with the fellow countrymen to revive the Yushin dictatorship with an ambition to realize “system unification”. But she was punished by the public to plunge into an abyss of total ruin like her father.

The Parks could not escape their doom as they scuttled inter-Korean relations by toeing the US line and devoting themselves to confrontation with the fellow countrymen and went against the public sentiment.

However, the Liberal Korea Party and other conservative forces are working desperately to put the south Korean society back in its past of flunkyism and treachery, confrontation with the fellow countrymen and fascist dictatorship while putting forward Park Chung Hee and Park Geun Hye. That is why the dregs of evil legacies who were forsaken by the public have revived to make blistering remarks and behave rashly.

While inciting antagonism and confrontation between the fellow countrymen as they stand in the way of national reconciliation and improved relationship, they are blindly following the foreign forces who work to divide Korea forever.

If such conservative forces as the LKP remain intact, it is obvious that Yushin dictatorship will revive again in south Korea.