Korea’s BTS Defeats China’s PC Warriors

The pop group stands up to PRC bullies.

The South Korean K-pop group BTS rules the music world. It’s not my schtick, but that apparently means I am almost alone. Most of humankind understands it is not wise to challenge BTS’s followers, as angry Chinese social media mavens found after criticizing the seven young South Koreans for not celebrating the PRC for having attempted to subjugate the Republic of Korea and deliver it to the vicious misrule of Kim Il-Sung.

It should surprise no one, even Chinese, that South Koreans look more favorably on American than Chinese intervention in the Korean War. On June 25, North Korea’s Kim, chosen by occupying Soviets to create another oppressive satellite state under their control, launched an invasion of the ROK. That triggered three and a half years of war. Most of the peninsula was ravaged. Both national capitals were wrecked. Seoul changed hands four times. Millions of people were killed. Millions more were injured. Additional millions were displaced. The impact of that horrid war lingers seven decades later, with a divided peninsula, heavily armed border, lurid war threats, and divided families. All this goes back to self-proclaimed “Great Leader” Kim’s visions of grandeur and conquest. Left alone he would have prevailed. Over the last seven decades the people of south as well as north on the Korean peninsula would have lived under one of the most oppressive tyrannies on Earth. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was a horror even by communist standards, outstripped only by Albania, perhaps, in the degree of conformity and submissiveness demanded by rulers acting as gods. And Kim was determined to inflict his selfish grandiosity on all Koreans. That did not happen only because U.S. President Harry S. Truman reacted by sending desperately ill-prepared American forces into battle. The Korean peninsula did not much matter to the U.S. directly — before 1945 Washington had never concerned itself with which “whale” was in control of the “shrimp,” as Korea and its...