Can You Make A Nuclear Weapons Too?

Chapter 143

[This morning, the Korean government declared a complete cessation of semiconductor supply to Japan.]

“Minister!”

The next day, the Japanese cabinet was shocked by the news of the Korean government’s suspension of semiconductor exports.

It was expected that there would be a head-to-head response, but it was a situation in which we did not expect such an all-out clash.

The phone has been on fire since morning, and the Prime Minister is also urging for immediate measures, so Abe has been unconscious all morning.

“Is it not covered in our semiconductor industry?”

Feeling impatient, Abe repeatedly hurried his bureaucrats and asked.

But every time the answer came back was only negative ones.

“The 45-nm process is an irreplaceable item. 65 It is the reality of semiconductor companies around the world that I am also struggling with process development.”

“What is America?”

“The United States is, of course, concerned. Once the production of our products is stopped, there can be cascading damage in any part. But the Korean government is not even moving.”

It was an incomprehensible situation.

What kind of guts does Korea have so it doesn’t pay attention to the US?

But in the meantime, another bad news flies.

“But the problem seems to be getting worse.”

“why?”

“As a matter of fact, some semiconductor factories have been shut down due to the earthquake that occurred two days ago, so we cannot be sure of supply and demand for 90-nano-based memory semiconductors for the next three months.”

“·················ogue.”

was in the midst of a rush.

The earthquake was so strong that the factory was shut down at this time of year.

In the case of a semiconductor factory, once the operation is stopped, it takes at least several months to resume operation.

It’s like being abandoned by the sky.

“How about returning the supplier to Taiwan?”

“It is possible, but it will still have a huge impact. Right now, the electronics industry around the world is releasing products based on 45 nanometers that use low power as a weapon, because our 90 nano based products have no way of being competitive.”

“Damn it.”

If that’s the case, the damage will inevitably increase.

Other than that, the low power and low heat generation of semiconductors is a situation that most companies use as a marketing tool these days.

There’s no point in insisting that the difference in performance alone isn’t that big in the yard.

Moreover, the recent public evaluation is cold.

Is it sensitive to subtle differences in performance unlike before?

“I, and there is one more thing you should know.”

“What else?”

Abe asked nervously at the subsequent report.

“According to an additional statement announced in Korea a while ago, the export of all-solid-state batteries to be produced by the Jaewoo Group to Japan will be completely excluded.”

“·················ogue.”

“If that happens, our industry will really lose its competitiveness completely.”

I didn’t even have the energy to complain anymore.

Another bureaucrat rushes into the office while the car is about to grab his flabby hair.

“I got a call from Fanuc. If we do not receive semiconductor supplies from Korea as it is, our equipment exports to other countries will be threatened.”

“What else does that mean?”

Abe groaned.

The official, who flinched for a moment, hesitated again and continued his speech.

“The controller that controls the machines. It, too, is basically a collection of semiconductors, but if we don’t get the supply right away, there may be a production stoppage…”

“Huh…”

Abe was unable to control his legs, which were unraveling, and sat down on a chair.

Why didn’t he think of that?

That the modern industry is a structure that can never go out alone.

No, I didn’t think about it.

I just didn’t expect them to have such a super-precipitation.

To be honest, this is to die for you and I want to die, but it was a mistake to think that this would not be the option for the Korean government, which is currently unstable.

“However, we cannot encourage the United States again since we first asked the United States to remain silent on this matter.”

“Yeah?”

The official responded immediately to Abe’s self-talk.

Abe, who suddenly came to his senses, spoke to the bureaucrat in front of him.

“By the way, how is the atmosphere in Korean politics? No, who is the leader of the current opposition party in Korea?”

“Rep. Lee Joo-hwan is a person who has been rapidly gaining attention recently.”

“Lee Joo-hwan? Has CEO Lee Yong-jae been pushed out?”

“Yes, recently, CEO Lee Yong-jae’s age is being pushed back little by little, and a person named Lee Joo-hwan is on the rise, but waiting in line is very difficult because his father once had a history of independence movement.”

It was disappointing news for him.

I mentioned pro-Japanese characters in the opposition party one after another, just in case, but the answer I got back was consistently negative.

“Rep. Kim Jo-hwan and other lawmakers who have been supported by the Sasaki Foundation are now being pushed out of the party.”

“No, why?”

“It is because of Rep. Lee Joo-hwan in the end, but it seems that there are quite a few people who agree with his claim that the identity of the opposition party must be solid in order to regain power.”

Abe snorted at that.

His theory is that there are no politicians who don’t like money.

I wonder how far it will go.

Eventually, he called his supporters, the far-right figures.

– Still, our side is pushing Rep. Lee Yong-jae. In such a situation, it is best to shake the government policy through the government and the media through the politicians. The problem is that Rep. Lee Yong-jae’s power is not the same as before, but we have to look forward to it first.

At least I was a little reassured.

If the Sasaki Foundation moved, the Korean politicians and media under its influence would soon shake up Korean society.

Now time will be the answer.

“Let’s keep an eye on the trend for the time being.”

“·················ogue.”

The bureaucrat made a poopy expression on his face.

Is it a situation that will be resolved by saying that we will watch in the yard that is clamoring from all over the industry right now?

However, the opponent is a person who has been nominated as the next prime minister.

In the end, there was nothing he could do but bow his head and take a step backwards.

*****

[Some of the opposition parties in Korea are raising the opinion that the Korean government’s measures are a step toward self-destruction.]

A week later, Abe finally got the news he had been waiting for.

Some forces and media in the Korean opposition party started moving by the logic of money.

Thanks to this, public opinion in Korea began to be divided, and public opinion in Japan toward Abe, which was gradually deteriorating, began to turn to a positive side again.

“Whoa… I’m going to breathe a little now.”

[Rep. Lee Joo-hwan, one of Korea’s current leading opposition parties, issued a statement this morning. Rep. Lee Yong-jae’s opinion within the same party is purely an individual opinion, and it is said that the opposition party actively supports the government’s policy toward Japan. Rep. Lee’s statement has received support from all walks of life, and the economic sanctions of Japan and South Korea have plunged into an indistinguishable fog.]

But a few days later, the problem occurred again.

Again, the existence of Lee Joo-hwan brought the Korean political uprising to a halt.

Abe, who became impatient, immediately began to understand the atmosphere through the Cabinet Investigation Office, after which he received more embarrassing news.

“Yesterday, Jaewoo Group Chairman Jin Hyun-seung had dinner with Rep. Lee Ju-hwan. I don’t know what conversations were going on there, but that meeting certainly helped to change the mood of the opposition again.”

“Another Jin Hyunseung!”

bang!

Abe smashed the tea desk in anger.

Then the phone rings.

It must be the cries of people in the business world who are demanding countermeasures.

“Yeah······.”

The prediction was correct.

Not only Fanuc and other equipment companies, but also Sony and Toshiba. Even the Misbishi who once encouraged him.

When the sword was pointed at their necks, they changed their attitude and turned all their arrows to Abe.

“Damn it!”

******

[Today is the second month that Korea’s materials and semiconductor exports have been suspended. Industries that have already run out of inventory are cutting production one after another, and the amount of damage suffered is known to be astronomical.][The business community has once again demanded that the Cabinet reconsider this measure. In the next two months or so in this state, I heard the news that companies going to bankruptcy will come one after another…]

As time went on, public opinion toward the Liberal Democratic Party worsened.

In the beginning, even the far-right groups who said that countries like Korea should be punished without grace, now have lost their voice.

Even on the streets once filled with an atmosphere of hatred, voices pleading for the Cabinet’s error are now beginning to resound.

“Abe, stop export restrictions immediately!”

Abe was shocked by the policy resistance of the people, who rarely took to the streets.

“Damn it!”

Even so, one of the characteristics of the Japanese is obedience.

No, more precisely, it was that he was not interested in politics, and now it is a legacy of the past.

Burr!

While watching the protest outside the window for a while, his cell phone rang.

At first glance, the number I checked is that of the Prime Minister.

He got up from his seat and pressed the call button unconsciously, as if the prime minister was in front of him.

“Yes, Prime Minister.”

– Did you see the news?

“If you’re talking about protests…”

– Other than that, the discourse of our business community. Now, isn’t the president of the Kyungdanryun announcing a discourse through Yomiuri TV?

Abe, startled by those words, immediately turned on the TV.

What followed immediately was the contents of the discourse of the CEO of Gyeongdan-ryun.

He was struggling with the reality of the economic world that would be devastated in the future, and he was strongly demanding a solution from the government.

[Unfortunately, the stock of semiconductors that I had is completely exhausted. In a month in this state, more than a thousand companies will go bankrupt.]

– This is where things got tricky. Just two months ago, we asked the United States to remain silent on our actions, and now it is impossible to overturn that. What’s even more disconcerting is that the US is starting to question the past again.

“Is this from the past?”

– In the past, our far-right groups had secretly provided aid to North Korea.

“Isn’t that a problem that was alleviated through the massive purchase of weapons at the time?”

– How did you know that Korea is strongly appealing to the issue. So, for the United States, it is inevitable. But the strange thing is the American reaction.

“what······.”

– The US Secretary of State asked me a hint. Is there really no fact that our government was involved in that case?

Abe was silent.

I wondered if I could hear a tongue-kicking sound from the other side, and then again the words of a pitiful tug flew in.

“Anyway, what are you going to do now?

“·················ogue.”

The Prime Minister’s words sounded like tail cutting.

This is the reality of Japanese politics.

Abe, who had a foreboding of the end, immediately resigned, but the Prime Minister’s voice still did not soften.

– This is not a problem that can be solved just by resigning one of you now.

“Then what the hell am I doing?”

– First contact the US State Department. We’ll make this happen as well, so we’ll ask you to intervene.

“But what would they think of us if they suddenly changed their attitude when we had a lot of lobbying to not get involved at all?

– Is your self-esteem a problem now? The government is about to be overthrown.

“·················ogue.”

-Honestly, the United States is also secretly looking forward to it. It is true that the United States is in trouble if the two allies are fighting right now.

“However, if South Korea continues to take issue with right-wing organizations’ aid to North Korea, mediation will not be easy even in the United States.”

For Abe, that part was burdensome.

In the beginning, what he came up with as an excuse for the move was South Korea’s illegal aid to North Korea, but now the situation has been turned upside down.

But the Prime Minister’s attitude was firm.

-That’s only Korea’s claim, so it will depend on what the US decides. And especially in situations where we show sincerity like we are.

“You show sincerity.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

– tt!

Suddenly, the sound of the prime minister’s tongue was heard over the receiver.

It’s like he doesn’t like the situation.

After a long sigh, the Prime Minister continued his speech.

– Offered bulk purchases of F-15s to the US side.

“…are you going to read through it again by purchasing weapons?”

– So how is it?

“That’s it…but will it work?”

– After all, the issue of aid to North Korea in the past had nothing to do with our government on the surface. Hani, the US also emphasized that part and said that it would end with a line to appease Korea and sanction only our far-right-oriented businesses.

Fortunately it was.

After all, the United States wouldn’t want Japan, Asia’s absolute ally, to be pushed into the corner until the very end.

If there’s one thing that’s unfortunate, it’s the far-right groups that will eventually have their tails cut off.

“By the way, wouldn’t the F22 be better if you are going to buy a fighter jet?”

Abe alluded to an idea that came to mind.

Perhaps it was a mistake, but it felt like I heard a tongue-knocking sound from over the receiver.

– Will the US sell the F22?

“·················ogue.”

-By the way, it seems that Boeing’s current situation is so difficult that they agreed to buy the F-15, but we don’t have a choice.

I understand, but somehow I don’t like it.

To be honest, I want to refrain from increasing national defense capabilities that are merely increasing numbers.

Of course, Boeing is also planning to improve the F-15 recently, and it is not known to what extent the improvement will proceed, but it is not true that it will not surpass the KFX developed by Korea.

“Okay, we’ll get in touch with the US State Department soon.”

But, as always, I had to agree.

That’s the country’s politics and customs.

The fortunate thing is that he didn’t even go to the point of giving up his seat, and frankly, I wonder what’s the point of simply preserving his seat in such a situation.

– Keep that in mind. The US should never know that the South Korean government was involved in the previous aid to North Korea. That means it has to end with what happened to us right wingers.

“Of course it is, but in the case of the Prime Minister in the United States, wouldn’t they already be guessing roughly?”

-There’s a difference between just guessing and turning out to be true.

“……”

Abe answered with a gulp of saliva.

As if that was not the only piece of advice to leave, the Prime Minister continued his speech.

-And our purpose now is to somehow end this situation. Because if we go on like this, we’re going to die first. In order to carry out Minister Haeng-yeo’s thoughts, do not even think about demanding that we stop exporting semiconductors while maintaining our sanctions.

For a moment, Abe’s body froze.

It was true that he wondered if it would be possible to make such a request if he had to spend a lot of money anyway.

“Yeah……”

After a short reply, he hung up the phone.

If this is the case, a complete defeat.

Other than that, I am very afraid of the future of this country that will not be able to speak out loudly against Korea in the future.

Can you make nuclear weapons too?-144