Hit by a Sling Shot
Mr. Shin Kee Nam, chairman of the ruling Open Uri Party, seemed invincible at first as commander of the campaign for the 'Liquidation of the Past.' Three-time elect lawyer-turned congressman was a committed theorist and propagandist for the campaign. He was one of the authors who had advocated 'the Bill for the Investigation and Assessment of Pro-Japanese collaborationist activities.'
Targets were mostly evident to everybody's eyes: The degradation of Former President Park Chung Hee as a national traitor and the subsequent portrayal of Park Keun Hae who now serves as party chief of the rightist Opposition Hannara Party and the successor to the ignominious dictator, by which President Roh and his party could make her bid to run for the 2007 Presidential election frustrated.
The next thing he knew, a really incredible incident happened to Mr. Shin, who, standing to his feet to issue an order to launch an attack on enemy forces, was met with a weird misfortune. The combatant commander, hit not by a gun shot but by a sling shot, fell to the ground.
To the rock was bound a message rope which said that the chairman's father Mr. Shin Sahng Mook had lived a traitorous life as MP sergeant of Imperialist Japanese Army. It was the Monthly Donga, the sister magazine of the Donga Il Bo Daily Newspaper that had reported on Mr. Shin's father.
How traitorous? The Shin father had headed a squad in which he had led a torturous investigation of his compatriots. A living witness victim of his harsh torture, in his early nineties, volunteered to testify to reporters. Mr. Shin junior, feeling ashamed and insulted, bowed out of the scene, offering apologies. Round One of History War to the Opposition Party and the Rightists with a least feasible defense.
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