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President Lee Orders Shutdown of DMZ Loudspeakers Blasting Anti-North Korea Propaganda

이재명 정부, 대북 확성기 방송 중단 지시
대북 전단 살포 중단 촉구

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Updated on June 11, 2025 The other day, while sorting through an old family album from my late mother-in-law, I came across a black-and-white photograph of my husband as a baby—barely a year old. He stood in a sea of flowers, gazing intently at a single blossom, as if the rest of the world had faded away. His quiet focus, his reverence for something small and beautiful—that was him. “This is him,” I whispered, struck by how completely the photo captured the essence of the man I love. Then came the ache of regret. I wished I had asked his mother about that moment—where it was taken, what she remembered. She passed away last September, and with her, the story behind the image was lost. I wasn’t just mourning her absence—I was grieving the disappearance of a memory I never thought to preserve. That photograph made me think of another kind of loss: the millions of Korean families torn apart by war and division. Many still hold photos of parents, siblings, or children they haven’...
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Longing for Kumgang Mountain

그리운 금강산

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Simone Chun "How many years have a beautiful mountain been desecrated for tens of thousands of years?" "Has the day to find you come today, Mt. Geumgang is calling" At a recent webinar , I was asked a seemingly simple question: “What do you think about North Korea?” It caught me off guard. The question was broad, almost too general, and though I should have had a ready answer, I found myself fumbling. My response felt disjointed, more like a murmur than a message. I began by saying this: Korea is one nation, but one that has been tragically divided for over 80 years—longer than World War II, the Korean War, or the Vietnam War. Indeed, it has outlasted every major conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries. I belong to the post-war generation—a generation that, under Park Chung-hee, received a thorough anti-communist and anti–North Korea education—and one that has never known a unified homeland. In fact, my first speech contest in fifth grade, where I receiv...
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The Revolution of Light and Korea’s Democratic Triumph:

Why Washington Should Pay Attention

이재명 대통령과 빛의 혁명:

워싱턴이 직시해야 할 한국 민주주의의 위대한 승리

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Key Points: The “Revolution of Light” that brought Lee Jae-myung to the presidency transcends the dismissive portrayals offered by foreign media. For 124 days, from December 3, 2024, to April 4, 2025, millions of Korean people stood unwavering. Yoon Suk-yeol’s collapse highlights a simple truth: any US policy in Korea that ignores Korean public opinion is bound to fail. A unique asset that President Trump brings is his past outreach to North Korea, which, while ultimately unsuccessful, was widely supported by Koreans and broke with Washington orthodoxy. One of the most consequential missteps in US Korea policy under the Biden administration was the failure to engage with South Korea’s domestic political realities, particularly the widespread public opposition to President Yoon Suk-yeol’s increasingly authoritarian rule. By relentlessly propping up Yoon to serve Washington’s geopolitical agenda and its escalating Cold War posture toward China, the Biden administration not onl...
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Korea’s 2025 Presidential Election: President Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Revolution of Light—A Mandate for Sovereignty and Justice
이재명 대통령과 함께 여는 빛의 민주주의, 국민주권 혁명의 시대

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Korea’s Democratic Revolution of Light: A Mandate for Sovereignty and Justice Simone Chun Seventeen million South Koreans have spoken—resoundingly. On June 3, they elected Lee Jae-myung as the nation’s 21st president, delivering not just a victory at the ballot box, but a powerful mandate for democracy, justice, and popular sovereignty. This was not just an election. It was a revolution—peaceful, resolute, and democratic. In an extraordinary snap presidential election triggered by the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol, voters turned out in record numbers. Of 44.39 million eligible voters, 35.24 million cast their ballots—a staggering 79.4%, the highest turnout in nearly three decades. Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party won 49.42% of the vote, the highest share in any presidential race since South Korea’s democratization in 1987, and became the first Korean president to receive over 17 million votes. His far-right opponent, Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party, trail...
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Western Media Fails June 3 Korean Election: Oversimplified, Superficial, and Distorted Coverage

서구 언론, 빛의 혁명과 6월 3일 한국 대선 보도 실패.
빛의 혁명: 독재에 맞서고, 주권을 지키다.

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Western reports ignore the extraordinary mass mobilization of Koreans who resisted Yoon’s far-right authoritarianism—and the enabling role of a U.S.-backed militaristic environment . Simone Chun South Koreans will head to the polls Tuesday to elect a new president—two years ahead of schedule—following the historic impeachment and removal of Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law on December 3, 2024. Yet Western media coverage of this pivotal election has been dismal: dominated by oversimplified “what-you-need-to-know” briefings, superficial commentary, and distorted narratives. Crucially, much of it overlooks two key realities: the extraordinary mass mobilization of Koreans who resisted Yoon’s far-right authoritarianism, and the enabling role of a U.S.-backed militaristic environment. In the winter of 2024, as the world looked away, South Korea stood on the edge of authoritarian collapse. President Yoon Suk-yeol, facing mass dissent over his militarist policies and anti-democra...
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The Final Presidential Campaign Rally of Lee Jae-myung. June 2, 7:00 PM | Culture Square, Yeouido Park

이재명 대통령후보 마지막 유세

6월 2일 오후 7시 |여의도공원 문화의 마당

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The Final Presidential Campaign Rally of Lee Jae-myung June 2, 7:00 PM | Culture Square, Yeouido Park Remember On November 30, 1987, 1.3 million voices rose as one in support of Kim Dae-jung and the dream of democracy. In that same unshakable spirit, democracy will rise again—on June 2 at 7 p.m., at the Culture Square in Yeouido Park. There, we will remember the long, unfinished journey: — 35 years of Japanese colonial rule, — the joy of liberation in 1945, denied by foreign partition, — the Cold War’s grip when the U.S. fractured our nation under the weight of its Northeast Asia strategy, — and the scars of a three-year war that tore our land and families apart. And yet, through every trial, the people stood firm. And from the rubble, we built democracy. Now, a new crossroads lies before us. This may be our final chance to secure a democracy that is truly our own, and a sovereign state that answers only to its people. It is the most sacred and joyful task o...
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"Expel U.S. Far-Right Operatives: They're Breaking Korean Election Laws to Sabotage Democracy"

한국 선거법을 위반한 미국 극우 세력 추방하라

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As South Korea approaches its historic presidential election on June 3, its democracy faces a dual assault—one from within, by coup-aligned actors, and one from abroad, by far-right American operatives seeking to manipulate the outcome. These foreign actors are not benign observers. They are ideological foot soldiers in a transnational campaign to undermine Korea’s democratic transition and entrench U.S. military and political dominance in East Asia. U.S. Far-Right Interference, Disguised as Observation On May 26, a group of far-right American figures arrived in Seoul under the false guise of “international election observers.” Led by Trump-era State Department official Morse Tan and conspiracy theorist Gordon Chang , the delegation met privately with figures tied to Korea’s recent coup attemp began spreading disinformation about Korea’s electoral process. t Just days later, they appeared at an early voting site and publicly questioned the legitimacy of Korea’s ...
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