The editorial recalled that Park Geun Hye said she would not take part in an event to commemorate the April 3 popular resistance. It went on:

She noted she did not recover from the fatigue from her foreign tour. But, in fact, it will be a candid answer that she made this decision, afraid of the rebuff from a conservative organization.

It is doubtful that Park has the sincerity to console the soul of the April 3 uprisers and not to repeat the unhappy history, though she set it as her commitment to election to "correctly settle the April 3 case".

During the April 3 popular resistance which erupted against the establishment of a "separate government" in south Korea, innocent people on Jeju Island were mercilessly killed by the U.S. "military administration" and pro-U.S. forces including Syngman Rhee.

Those denying the resistance are the pro-U.S. forces and forces praising the dictatorship.