Statement by the Exile Committee for North Korea Democracy

At the Korean War Memorial

April 27, 2006

Standing here at this place where the souls that willingly laid their lives for the freedom of Korea fifty years ago, I have been touched deeply by the statement on the Korean War memorial, “Freedom is not free.”

I can stand here today in the presence of peace because of the struggles of American soldiers who gave up their lives for peace and freedom.

We are the people from North Korea, which confronted the people “who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met” in the Korean War.

Right now, North Korea is a country where freedom is most oppressed in the world. North Korea became the country without freedom because North Korea rejected freedom. It lost freedom because it fell into the temptation of socialism and communism and because it approved dictatorship from generation to generation, through regimes of Il-Sung Kim and Jung-Il Kim.

In order to keep freedom of the dictators, Il-Sung and Jung-Il Kim deprived the North Koreans of their liberty for the last sixty years.

The current dictator, Jung-Il Kim, made 3,000,000 people of his own starve to death by wiping out all the food sources in order to continue despotism inherited from his father.

In addition to this, he spent 890,000,000 dollars for the funeral of his father and preservation of the body of his dead father in order to justify his family of absolute monarchy.

Human history does not know anybody who is more brutal and more monstrous than this tyrant.

Dictatorship of Jung-Il Kim became an axis of evil in the twenty first century.

However, the sons of America who participated in Korean War in 1950 dedicated their blood and flesh. This is why the evil political power of Il-Sung Kim and Jung-Il Kim could not devour South Korea.

South Korea, now the 12th nation leading the world economy and the country of democracy, shows that noble sacrifices made by the American soldiers became the driving force for the growth of freedom and peace of mankind.

We the people who found liberty by escaping from North Korea where freedom is lost by the Jung-Il Kim’s monarchy, we are determined once again at the Korean War Memorial.

We are determined to fight with all our passion and spirit until the dictator is overthrown and people who once lost freedom are given liberty back again.

In our opinion, to fight back is the right way to console the 54,000 soldiers who lost their lives at Korean War and 7,000 souls who are lost in the war.

The Lincoln Memorial is located nearby. We will fight Jung-Il Kim’s dictatorship until the day when President Abraham Lincoln’s determination comes true in North Korea and the “freedom of the people, by the people, for the people” is guaranteed in North Korea.

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