British media: Before being assassinated, Kirk had visited Japan and South Korea, and had close exchanges with local right-wing forces.

Source: Global Times New Media

Charlie Kirk, who was described by foreign media as a key political ally of US President Trump, was assassinated on September 10 local time, sending shockwaves through the United States.

While US media focused on who killed Kirk and the issues of gun violence and political polarization in the US, The Guardian in the UK exposed another story: a week before his assassination, Kirk had visited Japan and South Korea and had close exchanges with right-wing forces in those countries.

According to The Guardian's disclosure, Kirk appeared in Tokyo on the weekend and had public exchanges with the leader of the Japanese right-wing party "Shintō" (Sakigake), Kiyoshi Kamata, among others, discussing issues such as foreign immigration in Japan. Before that, Kirk had also gone to South Korea and had exchanges with right-wing forces there.

On the day before his assassination, Kirk talked about his trips to Japan and South Korea in his personal podcast. When talking about his trip to Japan, he expressed high agreement with the "Shintō" party's platform that opposes foreigners, even claiming that Japan is being "quietly occupied" by foreigners, and that foreigners will eventually replace and erase the Japanese people and Japanese culture. Kirk also said that the situation facing the US and Europe is "the same" as Japan's, and believed that Japan should "close its borders."

Kamata also posted on social media on September 7, introducing the exchange between Kirk and "Shintō" in Tokyo. Kamata also mentioned that he and Kirk discussed how to unite right-wing forces around the world to "fight against globalization."

In the podcast program, when talking about South Korea, Kirk first praised the country's clean streets and good public security, and then briefly criticized the US's public security issues. After that, he shifted his tone, catering to South Korea's right-wing forces, attacking the South Korean government. He even claimed that if right-wing forces in South Korea were "suppressed" again, Americans like him would not sit idly by.

Foreign netizens commented that Kirk is spreading the political polarization he has been involved in domestically to more countries. And before Kirk's assassination, many Japanese and South Korean media professionals and bloggers wrote articles stating that Kirk was "spreading hatred" in these countries.

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