Throughout the modern era, South Korea has consistently been hailed as an exemplar of democratic progress and the liberal ideal in action.Unfortunately, since the abrupt advent of President Lee’s government in 2025, the South Korean state has been steadily inundated by the politics and ideology of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).In fact, although South Korea has long enjoyed a historic relationship with the United States of America, it is clear that South Korea has been rendered unto the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and transformed into a vehicle for the national interests of the CCP, under the auspices of the Lee government.Firstly, Lee’s own Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) has itself long been corrupted by the CCP.For example, various DPK politicians have been exposed as bedfellows of the CCP and nodes of its communist ideology. In fact, the East Asia Research Center (EARC) has repeatedly confirmed that the DPK is intertwined with the Chinese Communist Party, and EARC’s Founder, Dr. Tara O, recently warned the US House Human Rights Committee that “South Korea is becoming communist,” as a consequence of the DPK government’s intimate relationship with the CCP.In addition, in 2019, the DPK’s flagship think tank, the Institute for Democracy, actually ratified a cooperative “policy agreement” with the CCP’s infamous Central Party School, and in 2024, 71 members of the DPK, including the longtime leader of the DPK, Jeong Cheong-rae, joined a “suspected pro-CCP group”: the Korea-China Parliamentary Federation.Moreover, the Lee regime is itself an eager vector for the politics and ideology of the PRC..For instance, since 2025, the Lee government has openly embraced various vulgar pro-Chinese policies, such as the infamous ‘One China Policy’, and the Lee regime now actively persecutes numerous American businesses, such as Meta, Starbucks, and Coupang. In fact, over 50 members of Congress recently “blasted South Korean leadership over a left-wing government closely aligned with China.”In addition, the Lee regime has attempted to encode socialist ideology directly into South Korea’s Constitution, and it has harshly punished any discourse that is at all anti-China. In fact, the Lee government has been explicitly condemned as a “pro-CCP and pro-North Korean dictatorship,” and, in 2026, Lee’s regime brazenly ratified 15 new agreements with the PRC, in an effort to render “strategic cooperation and partnership” with China “irreversible.”Furthermore, the PRC now consistently interferes in South Korea’s elections, in an attempt to ensure the election of politicians who are beholden to the CCP. For example, South Korea’s 2025 elections were tainted by fraud and the PRC. In fact, President Lee was himself thrust into power on the heels of a vote that was marred by the CCP’s particular brand of foreign interference. In addition, South Korea has now, for months, been mired in scandal and protest, due to the fact that the recent 2026 election has been exposed as an utter sham and an egregious example of foreign interference by the PRC. Even Morse Tan, the USA’s former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, has warned that PRC-related election fraud now represents “a deepening crisis that threatens [South Korea’s] constitutional integrity and the will of its people” and that “South Korea as we know it is about to be lost” under a cascade of stolen elections.Finally, President Lee is himself unabashedly pro-China and a frequent fangirl for Xi Jinping. .For instance, President Lee has long been accused of “being subservient to China” and, in 2024, Lee actually attempted to reframe the previous Yoon Administration’s “lean toward the United States in its Indo-Pacific strategy” as an effort to “harass China." Furthermore, Lee often meets personally with Xi Jinping in order to coordinate his dictums with Xi’s dogma, and Lee has himself explicitly confirmed that he will unequivocally re-establish “full restoration of [South Korea-China] ties in 2026.”Worse still, President Lee has imploded South Korea’s alliance with the United States of America, in an attempt to ingratiate himself with Xi Jinping and transform “South Korea into a satellite state of communist China.” In fact, the Trump Administration has repeatedly “slammed” Lee’s shameful mistreatment of the USA-ROK alliance, and Lee has now publicly refused to support the USA against China in Iran.Unfortunately, it is evident that democracy’s lofty idyll is no longer a defining feature of the South Korean state or a pursuit of the Lee government.In fact, although South Korea has long enjoyed a historic relationship with the United States of America, it is clear that South Korea has been rendered into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and transformed into a vehicle for the national interests of the CCP, under the auspices of the Lee government.More importantly, it is readily apparent that South Korea’s vibrant history with America can no longer conceal or excuse its current relationship with the CCP. Therefore, the Trump Administration will now inevitably take every brave step necessary to reclaim its “dagger in the heart of Asia” and expel all communism from South Korea, alongside ‘China Lee.'William Barclay is an award-winning political theorist and policy expert, as well as one of Canada’s leading conservative voices. Follow him on Twitter/X @WillBarclayPCBG.
