In the arms-building system of power-based peace, the core price level has strengthened and structural inflation is showing.
Core prices (excluding agricultural products and petroleum products) rose 1.7% in July, representing the price trend, for the fifth consecutive month following March (1.0%), April (1.4%), May (1.5%), and June (1.5%). As the upward trend became clear, it showed a 1.8% increase in August 2017 in the early days of the Moon Jae-in administration, which focused on military expansion.
In July, the inflation index of the National Statistical Office showed an increase of 2.6% compared to the same month of the previous year due to an increase in electricity gas prices and an increase in the prices of agricultural and livestock products and petroleum products, as well as the rise in personal services that took advantage of the rise in rent.
The increase in the CPI was January (0.6%) February (1.1%) March (1.5%) April (2.3%) May (2.6%) June (2.4%) July (2.6%) compared to the same month of the previous year appeared as
The increase in military spending, which exceeds the economic growth rate by more than 1.5 times, will increase by 5.5% annually to 55 trillion won next year. This appears to be the cause of the price hike.
In the peace policy based on the power of North Korea’s nuclear denuclearization, military expansion to expand the debt economy is an annual increase of 6.1% for five years from this year, and a total of 300.7 trillion won is invested. is a financial investment.
South Korea's arms imports quadrupled from 1 trillion won in 2016 to 4.3 trillion won in 2018, and in 2020, US arms imports amounted to 920 million to South Korea, the No. is confronted with
Sweden's Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported in the '2020 International Arms Trade Report' in March that South Korea's arms exports surged 210% over the previous five years (2010-2015), ranking ninth in the world in arms exports from 2015 to 2020. It said that the export volume is the fastest growing among the top 20 arms exporting countries.
Reuters reported on the 2nd that the bereaved family and survivors of the incident sued a Korean manufacturer and a U.S. branch about the Korean-made 100 rounds of large-capacity bullets used in the American shooting, Reuters and others reported on the 2nd.
In the complaint, the plaintiffs said, "Korea's Kyungchang Industries has found that large-capacity magazines have been repeatedly used to terrorize and massacre Americans in a series of mass shootings. It is also recognized that high-capacity magazines attract killers with a desire to kill as many people as possible. "They sold the tools of slaughter without reasonable safety measures, screening, or restrictions, and even without regulations and anonymity was guaranteed, they led customers to Internet shops with many criminals," he said.
The complaint was filed based on the Nevada state law, which requires manufacturers to implement safety measures, such as a criminal history check of buyers, to prevent their use in crimes, and the conflict began with the US Democratic Party's policy of regulating arms sales.
South Korea's 238 civil society groups said, "We export tear gas, which is no longer used to suppress protests in Korea, abroad" at a rally against the killing of the Myanmar military on March 3. We must not export weapons in line with this,” he said, demanding that the South Korean government stop exporting arms to the Myanmar military.