1. The same but different meanings of “August 15.”

We celebrate August 15 every year. The political term we gave on this day is not only a day of 'liberation', but it is also a day of 'liberation, independence, and founding'. Therefore, we are celebrating this day as a national holiday by giving it more meaning than any other day. However, as these terms define events that occurred on the same day, they sometimes cause confusion. In particular, when political meaning is added, it is the same term, but it has a different meaning. This is mainly due to the nature of political terms as practical terms.

First of all, "liberation" means "freeing confinement, oppression, or bondage." However, liberation in the political sense is 'the disappearance of the rule of another nation or state over one nation or state'. In other words, from our standpoint, liberation is 'Japan's surrender to the Allies resulted from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism', and that day is August 15, 1945. The term "liberation" also has a different meaning depending on the user's political ideas. In other words, for a liberal democrat, "liberation" is a general meaning that "breaks from restraint or bondage." On the other hand, for communists, "liberation" means that all political, social, and economic repression and exploitation of the working class and the oppressed people have disappeared. In other words, "labor liberation" means the completion of the class struggle in which the capitalist class and their system are overthrown and the dictatorship of the working class is realized, and "national liberation" means building an independent state of the communist system after the oppressed people secure political independence.

Gwangbok means "to find light again." However, we have used liberation as a political meaning of 'restoring national sovereignty'. In other words, the metaphorical expression of restoring the lost sovereignty of the Korean Empire, which was forcibly annexed by Japan in 1910, is liberation. In addition, we have used liberation in the same sense as 'independence', the common term for restoring national sovereignty. In other words, independence is independence. It can be seen from the use of the English name 'Korean Independence Army' in the Korean Liberation Army. As such, we have used the inter-exchangeable synonym of independence. However, there is a stark difference between these two terms. While "labor" is a term focused on the "restoration" of sovereignty, "independence" is a term focused on the "established" of sovereignty. Here, 'restoration of sovereignty' or 'establishment of sovereignty' have the same status in that they 'have sovereignty'. However, there is a difference in whether the possession of sovereignty is viewed as a restoration of the past or as a new acquisition. Therefore, the issues of 'restoration of national sovereignty' and 'establishment of national sovereignty' show differences in term selection depending on historical views. In other words, liberation is a term aimed at emphasizing the restoration of national sovereignty that has been briefly taken away from its half-a-million-year long history. On the other hand, the term independence is that the state has already been extinguished and has no choice but to acquire new sovereignty, and it is a term commonly used in the international community. Although there may be differences depending on the perspective, independence is considered to be a more rational term than liberation in that it has acquired the sovereignty of the state of the Republic of Korea and the fall of the Korean Empire.

And nation building is 'establishing a new country'. The basic elements of the founding are land, people, and sovereignty. The most important element of these is sovereignty. Sovereignty is the 'highest authority of governance that finally determines the will of the state' and has the highest absolute authority internally and independent independence externally. After all, whether or not there is sovereignty is a key factor in determining independence and establishing a country. August 15, 1945, was liberated from Japanese imperialism, but there was no sovereignty due to continued US military rule. On August 15, 1948, the Republic of Korea was founded based on liberal democracy through the process of founding after liberation. On the other hand, North Korea established the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 9, 1948, based on communism (socialism) with the support of the Soviet Union. As such, the two Koreas started with the basic elements of the state in appearance, but there is a significant difference in practical content. The difference depends on where the 'source of sovereignty' is. The key is 'Do you see the state itself as the subject of sovereignty?' or 'Do you see sovereignty as the people?' The former is the logic of justifying the one-party dictatorship of absolutism or totalitarianism, and the latter is the legitimacy and legal basis of modern democracies. It is the basis for guaranteeing freedom, rights, and participation.

2. Criteria of choice for a unified Korea

The source of the following sovereignty is closely related to the nature of the system. National sovereignty created an 'inclusive institution' based on liberal democracy, and national sovereignty fixed an 'extractive institution' based on one-party dictatorship. The inclusive system based on liberal democracy includes the widest class, and by guaranteeing individual property rights, a wide majority can obtain negligence as much as they have tried, and various institutional arrangements are in place to guarantee negligence. Therefore, in the inclusive system, individual development as well as national social development took place. On the other hand, the exploitative system based on one-party dictatorship excludes the majority of national society and operates only for a few privileged groups. In the exploitative system, the development of individuals and national society is stagnated and delayed due to insufficient measures to guarantee property rights. The 80-year history of the division of the Korean Peninsula proves the stark difference between the achievements of inclusive and exploitative institutions. The stark difference in performance is evidenced by the fact that South Korea's gross national income (GNI) is 59.8 times that of North Korea and its per capita gross national income is 29.7 times.

3. The task of full independence and full founding

A unified Korea completes complete independence and foundation, and the core value penetrating this time is freedom. In other words, the core value of national sovereignty is freedom, and the core value of an inclusive system is freedom. The reason why freedom is important is because of the value it has. In other words, freedom has the value of realizing human dignity by guaranteeing humans the ability to think, choose, and act on their own, and freedom has moral and legal responsibility based on self-determination. In addition, freedom is a value that promotes economic prosperity by enabling the discovery of truth, criticism, innovation, and scientific development, and acts as a foundation for democracy through freedom of expression, association, and press. However, there is also an inclusive nature in that freedom is not a self-indulgence but a value that must be realized autonomously with responsibility and respect for others.

The reason for the significant difference in the political system between the two Koreas after the division is whether the system has freedom or not. This means that freedom is a key value in the development of individuals and national society. North Koreans have not enjoyed these important values at all for the past 80 years. No, I have not recognized the precious value of freedom at all. It is not the responsibility of the same people who aim for unification to neglect this situation. In other words, it cannot escape criticism that it is like abandoning or abandoning the constitutional and moral responsibilities of the people. Now, our constitutional moral responsibility is to spread freedom to North Korea and achieve free unification. The spread of freedom is the basis for North Koreans themselves to break down the foundation of autocratic state sovereignty and develop the power to resist the injustice of the exploitative system. The spread of freedom is significant in that it provides a spiritual infrastructure for North Koreans, which lays the foundation for free unification on its own. The reason why North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has recently been bent on blocking the inflow of the Korean Wave is that the Korean Wave acts as a direct threat to the North Korean regime and signs. Therefore, Kim Jong-un enacted the "Three Major Evil Laws of Social Control (Reaction Thought and Culture Elimination Act, Youth Culture Guarantee Act, and Pyongyang Culture Language Protection Act)" to block the inflow of external information. Although the North Korean authorities have taken such measures, the residents will bypass them with new measures. About 8 million mobile phones could be a means of action.

However, it is said that the Lee Jae-myung administration will give up the means of informatization of North Korea, which has been in operation for more than 50 years, and open up broadcasting and media information about North Korea to South Korea. It's a very disappointing part. At the very least, it should open up information simultaneously between the two Koreas. It is a well-known fact that the simultaneous opening of broadcasting in East and West Germany played a major role in the reunification of Germany. Through West German broadcasts, East Germans recognized and shared knowledge of the superiority of the West German system, accumulated shared knowledge and reduced necessity, becoming a common knowledge, and this embers gathered and led to the reunification of East and West Germany. As such, German unification is not a unification in which West Germany absorbed East Germany with economic power, but a unification achieved by the East German residents themselves deciding to incorporate it into the West German Federation. So Germany was able to unify bloodless. Now again, we must look for a plan for a unified Korea by taking lessons from German reunification as an example. Only then can complete complete independence and complete founding of the country. Complete independence and complete founding must be accomplished through a unified Korea. This is the responsibility that the times have given us.

(※ It's a translation based on machine translation)