German intelligence agency's surveillance of far-right parties hit, Korean intelligence agency's surveillance of far-left parties that promotes far-right
While the German intelligence agency that led the Cold War system has officially designated surveillance of far-right parties as its official duty, South Korean intelligence agencies only monitor the far-left, excluding far-right parties and political groups, showing the gap in the democratic system.
Yoon Seok-yeol’s far-right coup is a typical case of a national rebellion by an intelligence agency, led by the Defense Security Command and cooperating with the National Intelligence Service, police, and prosecution intelligence organizations.
The Yoon Seok-yeol Regime has formalized the 'reform of state power' by far-right politics as 'the spread of the free system' since the presidential election, and on the 3rd, in the martial law declaration, it declared 'emergency martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea', leaving the National Intelligence Service to try to hijack the 'democratic republic' national policy of Article 1 of the Constitution.
Article 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea clearly states that the preamble is “peaceful unification through a liberal democratic order” in the “democratic republic”, so the establishment of an extreme right-wing Nazi system in the domestic political system and the heightening of war tensions by “spreading freedom to North Korea” and the radical attempt of the fascist regime through “elimination of anti-state elements in the National Assembly” in the style of the Yoon Seok-yeol regime, which publicly launched an “attempt to eliminate international forces that oppose the spread of freedom” at the UN General Assembly, are seen as a blunder in excluding the National Intelligence Service’s monitoring of “destruction of the Constitution.”
The German coalition government announced on the 16th that it would refuse to cooperate with the far-right party 'Alternative for Germany (AfD),' which rose rapidly from the high-price system in the Ukrainian war, although it is unlikely that any party will win an overwhelming majority in the unstable political landscape following the defeat of Chancellor Schulz in the election.
The New York Times reported on the 10th that “all the mainstream political parties have said they will refuse to cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and some of the far-right parties are being monitored by the domestic security service as a threat to the constitution.” “Nevertheless, the party known as the AfD has about 18 percent of the vote, and the collapse of the German coalition reflects a new era of more fragile and unstable politics in a country long known for solid coalitions built on consensus.”
The rise of the far-right in Germany came in September when the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the new far-left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance achieved their best results ever in state elections in eastern Germany. The New York Times reported on the 17th that “mainstream parties still view the rise of far-right and far-left parties as a curse, making it difficult to form governing coalitions in these states,” adding that “this could lead to potentially tricky negotiations to build a more functional and sustainable coalition than the one that failed.”
In March 2022, the German government decided that the intelligence agency would monitor the entire far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, and a year later, on April 25, 2023, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency dealt a blow to the youth wing of a prominent far-right nationalist party by classifying it as an extremist group that threatens the constitution and designating it as an organization subject to increasing surveillance due to “concerns about radicalization.”
The New York Times reported on March 26, 2023, that “German intelligence agencies have reclassified the political party ‘Youth Agenda’ after four years of surveillance,” adding that “the decision comes just a year after the intelligence agency decided to monitor the entire Alternative for Germany party, the first time in Germany’s postwar history that the intelligence agency has taken such action against a major opposition party.”
The German government also classified two other far-right organizations, the Institute for State Policy and the One Percent group, as right-wing extremists that day, saying both groups are part of Germany’s conservative ideological movement, the ‘New Right,’ and “promoting violent, anti-democratic and racist ideas.”
The New York Times reported on the reason for the official surveillance of far-right parties in Germany, saying, “Once a group is classified as extremist, its members could lose employment opportunities in the public sector and the ability to obtain or maintain weapons licenses,” and “domestic intelligence agencies that were already monitoring these groups will be granted the authority to wiretap or monitor members of these groups more quickly.”
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), officially announced on the same day that “there is no longer any doubt that these three groups of people are pursuing anti-constitutional aspirations.”
Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, the two leaders of the parties designated as far-right, called the decision “an outrageous act,” and said in a statement that “we currently have no reason or documentation to understand this step. Of course, we are already considering the use of legal means.” Political analysts say the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become more radical since it entered the German parliament in 2017.
The far-right party rose from 13 percent of the vote in 2017, before the war in Ukraine, to around 16 percent in opinion polls as European sanctions on Russia grew and Germany’s economic instability and inflation mounted.
“The AfD was the first far-right party to enter the German Bundestag since World War II, posing the most serious test of postwar Germany’s democratic institutions and domestic intelligence services,” the New York Times reported. “It joined neo-Nazis in street demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions and protests against Germany’s support for Ukraine in the face of Russia, and the AfD began to gain support from state institutions such as the police and the military.”
Far-right parties and political activities have a long-standing practice of attempting to overthrow the constitution and ‘overthrow the government’ or ‘overthrow the system’ due to their radical nature, even with approval ratings in the 10% range, and this has been repeated in Germany and Latin America.
In Germany, the far-right party showed signs of rising rapidly as the largest opposition party in the country in 2018, but when Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who had been controlling it, was elected in 2023, it fell from the position of the largest opposition party, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) was replaced by the center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDM), the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The political fate of the AfD was at its lowest point in the 2021 parliamentary elections, when it received only 10% of the vote, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revived it, and the political debate about the far-right forces invading German democracy has turned into a concrete political threat over the past year.
The New York Times reported that “some AfD members were implicated in a fantastical plot to overthrow the government, which German security forces quickly foiled in December.” “Just months later, Germany’s foreign intelligence service caught a spy in Germany who was passing information to Russia, and who was also a supporter of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.”
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, AfD members regularly visited Russia, sometimes being treated by the foreign minister, and two AfD state chapters became targets of domestic intelligence.
The eastern state of Thuringia labeled its local AfD chapter a right-wing extremist group, and the state intelligence service in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg said it was monitoring its own AfD chapter.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said in a statement at the time that the Youth Alternative had made “propaganda against refugees and migrants” a central and constant theme, “particularly against Muslims.”
The German intelligence service BfV said that “the group is acting against the ‘principles of democracy’ by denigrating political opponents and the state,” and that “Youth Action is not interested in debating the issues at hand, but rather in the general denigration of the democratic institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
German politics and government structures, due to their Nazi history and the fact that Hitler rose up by democratic means before establishing an authoritarian state, have designed their postwar political structure with built-in safeguards to protect democracy from the rise of political forces that could usurp it from within, and ‘monitoring and checking the far right’ has become a key task of the intelligence service.
German domestic intelligence is stated to have a primary mission of “acting as an early warning mechanism to protect the constitution from burgeoning threats,” monitoring and tracking radical far-right parties.