As a young man, I once worked for a while in a workplace with many elderly people over the age of 60. The workplace was led by an old man in the Marine Corps sergeant. He graduated from the theater management department of a prestigious university and was very fierce. He had a history of divorce due to domestic violence. However, he suffered from a rough society in his own way. When he was in the military, he was beaten every day with a machine gun sag. Politically, he showed a far-right tendency. I stayed well. However, on the day the old man was not in good condition, big thing happened. To relieve his bad condition, he started to harass his team members. Sometimes he punched his team members. The old man's brutal attack began on me, trying to restrain it. When he couldn't beat me, the old man lay down in front of the front door of the central building of the company. Then he shouted that the young man was trying to kill him. The old man and I were fired for the incident. The old man complained in front of the president that he was being fired because he got caught up in a young man's trick.
He was an old man who suffered under authoritarian rule and had a broken personality. And as a theater film artist, I imagined it at will. Hitler was also a painter. Their rich imagination went in the wrong direction. When ideology marries madness, it produces a monster called far-right or far-left.
In Western democracies like Korea, France, Sweden, Israel, and Japan, far-right forces strive for political power, but countries with the remnants of a socialist state cannot be free from the far-left. If Russia's Putin has nothing to gain from its war on Ukraine, its old forces will use ideological delusions to push Putin out. China set its history back by mobilizing far-left forces to launch a Cultural Revolution. Even Mao Zedong could not stop it.
I expected North Korean President Kim Jong-un to reform North Korea, but on the other hand, I couldn't help but worry about a coup by the genuine communist North Korean military and previously nationally nurtured socialist fighters. So I recommended a gradual reform. Looking at the martial law situation in Korea now, I think I'm right.
The extreme right or the far left are those who have suffered damage from the existing order, but they delusion that they can live more stably if they gain strength by taking advantage of the existing order. Therefore, they try to protect the existing order more dramatically than the dramatic reformers. Reform requires knowledge and wisdom, but the extreme right or the far left have learned a lot from the damage from the existing order. In other words, they learned how to oppress while being suppressed. In any case, the extreme right or the far left is a dark world of psychosis because they do not want peace.
Living on the Korean Peninsula, I think the following these days.
North Korea was very strange, but South Korea is strange these days...