Signature Campaign Launched against China’s Falsification of Kokyuro’s History

The civil regiment of Identification/Knowledge of Our History held a press conference on December 22 at the Zelkova Tree Cafe in Anguk-dong Jongro-gu, Seoul and announced that it was launching a campaign for 100,000 signatures to hinder China’s falisification of the Kokuryo history.

The civil regiment stated that “China should immediately cease operations to alter the history of Kokuryo as one belonging to China’s neighbor. Kokuryo inherited the orthodoxy of Old-Choson, the first country of the Korean race.

The civil regiment pointed out that “China is falsifying the history of Northeast Asian countries as an expansion of the history of the Han (Chinese) race. Through the principle of ‘unified multi-ethnicity’ China has been interpreting the history of Kokuryo as well as those of Old-Chosun’s and Balhae’s in a wayward manner.”

The civil regiment added that “China should voluntarily recognize that it has experienced its own wave of wayward falsification of textbooks on three occasions regarding the historical view of Japanese colonization and imperialism of the past.”

In-Jik Cho cij1999@donga.com