South Korea's Democratic Party and presidents Kim Dae Jung & Roh are/were about as "left wing" as Barack Obama is. In other words, there are a bunch of clueles

South Korea's Democratic Party and presidents Kim Dae Jung & Roh are/were about as "left wing" as Barack Obama is. In other words, there are a bunch of clueless South Koreans who sincerely believe that they are the pawn of North Koreans, the devil incarnate, the antithesis of freedom and all they are doing is to pave way for North Korean invasion. Or something like that. * For some inexplicable reason, those "leftist" presidents thought it was very important for South Korea to have modernized military. The result was "Military Reform Plan 2020" (국방개혁 2020), drafted in 2005, which planned to purchase and/or develop billion dollars worth of modern weapons, including submarines, helicopters, aegis destroyers, and what not. The conservative pro-American president Lee Myung Bak largely put a hold on this plan. Who need modern weapons when you have your "blood-ally" America who will always stand by you and think of you first? They even practically begged the Americans to keep wartime military command of the whole Korean military. (It's a little dirty secret of South Korea: when any war breaks out here, the US generals automatically assumes control of all our military power. What kind of "conservatives" advocate handing the whole military chain of command to another nation?) By the way, about those "Revolutionary Organization" (yeah, they are a bunch of clueless pro-NK idiots), so far the court decided to reject many of the evidences brought by prosecutors, saying they don't constitute legal evidence. It was clear from the onset that the whole scandal was politically motivated at a very convenient timing (or, rather, a very inconvenient timing, as South Korea's NIS has been under heavy fire for having generated 22 million(!!) tweets during the last presidential election, to sway public opinion and disparage "leftist" candidate Moon. The finest display of patriotism from our "conservatives".)