Charlie Kirk, described by foreign media as an important political ally of US President Trump, was assassinated on September 10 local time, and the news shocked the United States.
When the American media focused on who murdered Kirk, and the issues of gun violence and political opposition in the United States, the British "Guardian" exposed another story: A week before the assassination, Kirk traveled to Japan and South Korea and communicated closely with local right-wing forces.
According to the Guardian, Kirk appeared in Tokyo, Japan last weekend and had a public exchange with the leader of the Japanese right-wing party, Sotobe Kamiya, who advocated "Japanese interests first", covering issues such as foreign immigration in Japan. Before this, Kirk also went to South Korea and communicated with the right-wing forces in South Korea.
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The day before the assassination, Kirk talked about his itinerary in Japan and South Korea on a show released on his personal podcast. When talking about Japan's itinerary, he expressed high recognition of the "participating parties" program to exclude foreigners, and even claimed that Japan was "silently occupied" by foreigners, and said that foreigners would eventually replace and erase Japanese and Japanese culture. Kirk also said that the situation facing the United States and even Europe is "the same" as Japan and believes that Japan should "close its borders."
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Soni Kamiya also posted on social media on September 7, introducing Kirk's exchanges with the "participating parties" in Tokyo. Shengu Zongbi also mentioned that he and Kirk discussed how to unite right-wing forces in various countries around the world to "fight globalization."
When talking about South Korea on the podcast, Kirk first praised the country's clean cityscape and good public security, and criticized the United States' public security issues. Afterwards, he changed his subject and began to cater to the right-wing forces in South Korea and attacked the South Korean government. He even threatened that if South Korea's right-wing forces are "suppressed" again, Americans like him will not sit idly by.
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A foreign netizens commented that Kirk is spreading his participation in the incitement of political confrontation in the United States to more countries. Before Kirk was assassinated, there were also many Japanese and Korean media people and bloggers who wrote an article saying that Kirk "spreads hatred" in these countries.
Gao Lei
