Dear Comrade

Dear Comrade Leader Episode 153

“It is because there is an urgent pregnant woman! Comrades, please clear the road quickly! I must go to town and show my doctor comrade!”

“Are these comrades excited because you wanted to find out even the sane people? Now, because of the great flood (flood), the water has increased and the roads are all blocked.

“Comrade Secretary Kim! So you’re just going to sit back and watch healthy people die?”

“I have contacted the Hoan Bureau (fire department) of the Hwanghae Province Provincial Party, so please wait a little bit! Anyway, if you drive the car now, it will be washed away by the water and go all the way to the goal!”

“No, they say the road is blocked, what the hell can you do with the Central Rescue Bureau? Are you saying that Hoan Guk comrades even have wings to fly over the rising water?”

“Aren’t you Nanda? It’s coming from there anyway, so I’m not going to leave it alone! I have a lot of work to do, so please don’t bother and wait! I’ve done everything I can, so don’t just put in complaints about what to do about a person’s death because of a rookie party secretary in the Central Party later!”

A rural village in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, where it rains like a torrential downpour.

A group of people gathered in front of the Rural Committee, rolling their feet.

At their heart was a young newlywed couple who seemed to be just getting married.

And of the two couples, the wife’s stomach, who was struggling with colic, was clearly inflated, so anyone could tell that childbirth was imminent.

“That rotten party secretary! If I go to the city after the rain has stopped, I will definitely file a complaint and block the way for my promotion! Comrades, our daughter-in-law, our grandson in the womb, what do we do now? … ?”

“Calm down for now, Comrade Kim! There was no way to go to Haeju City. After watching TV, the General Secretary from the Central Party gave special instructions to all military and security guards to do their best to rescue the people, so something didn’t work out.”

“There have been a couple of occasions where we only talk like that, and when we really need it, we don’t get any news. Our Abaddy was also a people’s hero in the Fatherland Liberation War, but he went out to mobilize the labor and fell on a pile of bricks and died after not using the medicine properly!”

“Je-Egi, since the inauguration of Comrade General Secretary in Pyongyang, all kinds of mechanical shovels (fork cranes) and everything have come down to pave the road and dig up the road, so I can’t see the doctor anymore and I don’t think it’s possible to die.

In the torrential rain, the peasants simply looked up at the resentful sky and sighed.

As time passed, the mother’s face became paler, and the groom and mother-in-law just got burned out.

It is a large city in the republic, so there is a way to get there once, as the city is so large that the city hospital has introduced and rolled out a red car (ambulance) that transports the sick on its own from the nearby city hospital.

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Normally, I would have put extra money on a serbi car and ran into the city, but in a situation where the road was blocked due to the rain pouring down like a hole in the sky like now, even a servi car, not a servi car, was of no use.

As I was desperate to give birth to a cute grandchild on the street, I heard a voice from the sky I had never heard in my life.

Tata tata tata… … !!!

“What is this? what sound… … .”

“I, that… … ! Abaddy! Look at that!”

The sound was clearly audible in the deafening rain.

As the mother’s husband and son hurriedly shouted and pointed to the sky, all the residents, including the mother-in-law, raised their heads.

And for those who had never been to Pyongyang before, only farming, something like a miracle from heaven happened.

– There, comrades! When you hear me, wave your hand to signal! I’m from Haeju City Hall to transport the sick!

“I, that one… … I’ve only heard… … .”

“Direct Victory! The party sent a direct victory flag!”

That miracle was a straight-up aircraft (helicopter).

The appearance of the Mi-2 made by PZL Svidnik, Poland, painted in red, was so impressive that to the peasants who saw the direct flight for the first time, it was enough to make them forget even their family’s serious illness for a few seconds.

And the direct flight, which flew through the pouring rain, immediately slowed down, lowered the altitude and stayed in place, then opened the door and sent the rope down.

Soon a man, presumed to be a military officer, wearing a blue lifeguard suit, with an iron hook on the rope, skillfully climbed down with a dam (stretcher) and spoke to the stunned ones.

“After receiving the emergency request, I came out of the Haeju People’s Fire Department. I’m Sang-won Lee, a member of the Ministry of Security, who was specially added to the National People’s Fire Department. Is the sick woman there?”

– With special instructions from the party and the secretary’s office, regular news broadcasts will be suspended and an urgent breaking news will be sent. Currently, heavy rain is falling mainly in Hwanghae-do and Pyeongan-do. People, please calmly follow the instructions of the Cabal Committee and the secretaries of each elementary party.

– General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan visited the New Territories of Hwanghae Province and taught that the party and military government must unite and overcome the crisis in the face of such a grave crisis. In addition, each local party urged ‘don’t hide the situation of damage, openly disclose your difficulties and ask for help from the central government’.

-Notify all security guards and People’s Army soldiers who watch this broadcast. The secretariat’s special order is that the generals should unite without enlisting the generals to reduce the sacrifice of even one innocent people in the face of unprecedented floods this year.

From the moment he first heard the forecast of torrential rain in late July, Jeonghwan had the heart that it was coming.

In fact, if we look at it, it was impossible to forget that this year was an event like the midterm evaluation as a national leader, in which the achievements he had accumulated during his inauguration as general secretary and leader were put to the test.

arduous march.

It was a post-war catastrophe that completely plunged the country’s fortunes into chaos for about five years, starting in 1994, and a national crisis that decisively widened the gap between the two Koreas.

In the original history, the march of hardship was mainly caused by the catastrophic famine caused by the muddy ground like an attic after the great floods came in 1994 and 95 consecutively.

Until then, North Korea, which had managed to maintain its national shape despite the decline of the Eastern Bloc, falls into an extremely poor country due to this famine, and falls into a ‘broken state’, which is the impression that people around the world often had of North Korea.

However, if you look inside, the flood was just a signal, but in reality, the chronic problems that have been stagnant, chronic shortage of materials, national transportation that supplies railroads, electricity, and oil, collapse of energy infrastructure, and food shortages have accumulated. it exploded at once.

And during these five years of hell, it was estimated that about 3 million people died of starvation in North Korea.

However… … .

‘… … But that’s the story of the original history, and this time it’s a completely different story. The funds and the organization, and the members with the ability and will to form the organization, and above all, there is a sane leader.’

“Comrades, from now on until this national crisis is completely over, tell all members of the Labor Party to maintain a state of tension equivalent to wartime. And above all, our Central Committee Politburo members will have to take the lead at the forefront of this big water relief battle.”

“ancient! Comrade General Secretary!”

Since taking office as general secretary, Jeong Hwan has been preparing for this situation with all his might.

The national infrastructure network, represented by railroads and highways, which began construction immediately after taking office, had undergone extensive repair, maintenance, and expansion over the past five years, and through that transport network, the manpower and materials needed for support could be transported to the disaster area without any problems. .

In fact, even in most middle-income countries, this was a slogan that the leadership could give even if they were sane, and even the North Korean leadership in the previous era was instructed to organize such relief supplies.

The problem was that no matter how much the leadership, acting as the head, sent orders, the national infrastructure, which would act as the limbs and neural network, did not follow properly, so that half of the target was not achieved.

And even though the rich Kim, who is at the heart of the head, knew this problem, even if hundreds of thousands of people died in order to maintain their power, they never tried to reform and open up.

‘Just by looking at this, I can realize how incredibly irresponsible the dead Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il were. It was a disaster that could be prevented even with basic but intensive infrastructure maintenance after only 5 years.’

It was Jeong-hwan who felt that the two rich men who had already died were far more serious human resources than the flood or famine in this republic.

Hwanghae-do and Pyeongan-do, where the damage was concentrated, have been infamous for frequent floods from the past, and Jeonghwan has been intensively managing these areas since the removal of attic fields and nutrient complexes and the campaign to encourage planting.

The starting point of the great famine was the flood, and since the attic and bare mountain, which were the starting points of the flood, disappeared, the number of deaths from the immediate death decreased significantly.

Of course, it is difficult for trees to grow large enough to prevent flood damage in 5 years, and the bigger problem than nature was the human factor, to be precise, the fire and rescue personnel.

Strangely enough, there were no or very small departments that specialized in firefighting and disaster prevention in North Korea before.

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Nevertheless, due to the lack of equipment and manpower, the people could not do anything other than solve a fire or an urgent accident on their own or call a security guard (which they can’t do much either).

Jeonghwan, who is well aware of this problem, formed specialized firefighting and disaster prevention organizations in each province immediately after taking office, and sent training to the United States, a developed country for disaster prevention, to receive training.

Interestingly, the predecessor of this ‘National People’s Fire Station’ was a part of the youth prison guard unit of the People’s Army that had long ago been disbanded.

-By the way, we have gathered young and energetic men and organized them in a military way, so we should use them. Give applicants priority in distribution and send them training. The Air Force permits collecting and remodeling direct planes that are close to retirement and converting them to fire-fighting helicopters. In the future, we will have to bring in a new one or produce it ourselves, but first we have to put out the urgent fire.

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Not so long ago, as he was a byeong-guk-gae who was obsessed with controlling the river, it was comforting to say that it was very easy to form an autonomous fire brigade to respond to disasters in addition to nurturing professional manpower and to perform basic training.

Most of the fires, large and small, were extinguished early by providing compulsory education on how to handle fire extinguishers imported from foreign countries for about an hour instead of summarizing life or self-criticism.

In addition, when the People’s Army (which was still shivering at the edge of the ever-increasing organization shrinkage) became more specialized in supporting the people, and heavy equipment such as a shovel was attached to the Engineering Bureau, 80% of the disaster recovery was solved ridiculously easily.

Although the power of capital and specialized equipment was so great, of course, not everything worked out the way Junghwan thought.

The materialism that rapidly spread in the republic due to capitalization and marketization, and the moral hazard that followed, had side effects.

“Comrade General Secretary… … A truly shameful and tragic thing has happened.”

“Something?”

“The investigative bureau of Director Kim Young-il has caught some low-ranking party officials and military officers who were robbed of relief supplies going to the flooded area. These gannars were caught while selling goods to the local people at a market in the disaster area at several times higher prices. What should I do with them?”

“It’s easy. Immediately shoot him and make sure that all the broadcasts report it.”

“… … !!!”

To this situation, Jeong Hwan reacted so hard that the party officials were surprised.

Since his inauguration, being aware of the international community, he has refrained from sentences and executions to some extent, and executions were carried out in a ‘gentleman’ manner, such as drug injections.

However, Junghwan’s theory was that these malignant tumors and fungi should be suppressed early so that they do not spread as soon as they occur.

The policy of edification and tolerance is effective only for those who know how to distinguish between what is edible and what is not.

The shooting was carried out quickly under the same resources as the deterioration of the local soldiers in the same disaster area where the exploitation was committed.

-CNN. According to our Pyongyang expatriate, this time, dozens of criminals were shot at the same time by the state-run media in North Korea, and many Americans were shocked that the news of the death penalty was reported as breaking news. Foreign Minister Kim Yong-gun. What do you think of the criticism of the human rights monitoring group that ‘North Korea is still a dictatorial developing country that does not know the value of human rights’?

-As a responsible member of the international community, I would like to explain that there were good reasons for this execution. Even in the United States, murder is a crime equivalent to the death penalty, but the official position of the Workers’ Party of Korea and North Korea is that the act committed by these offenders is a de facto indirect murder. Personally, I think there are things that can be forgiven and things that can’t.

This execution immediately sent a message to all local party and military base officers how seriously the Central Party and the General Secretary were responding to this disaster.

And after the voluntary labor mobilization of local party organizations with even tighter standards, the arduous march that plunged the entire country of North Korea into an inescapable abyss in the original history was so perfect that it was difficult to find any traces of damage in just two months. has been restored

It was an achievement achieved by the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which have been working hard to reform and open up and improve the internal structure for the past six years under the leadership of a leader who knows the future, Kim Jeong-hwan.

– The total damage caused by the big water in August 1994 to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

– 22 dead, 107 injured, over 1,900 official victims. Total property damage of US$7.8 million.

– In addition, a temporary increase in overall rice and cabbage prices, mainly in Pyongyang.

The figures were in the white paper published by the National Statistical Office and the National People’s Fire Station a few months after the official end of the crisis management system of the Party Central Committee, which had lasted for two months.

If it was serious, it was a serious damage, but it was far from a crisis situation in which the administration had to worry about the survival of the administration like in the original history.

However, the biggest achievement was that the people realized the existence and original role of a state called North Korea, which had left its people almost neglected in the event of a disaster or accident.

Watching the taxes they paid come back as relief money, their son who went to buy military service came out to support the public, and the straight Seunggi, a wagon for high-ranking officials, carrying sick and wounded people, the people of North Korea only believe in themselves when the state and the party collect taxes. I found out that I don’t remember.

Almost all the people knew that the group devoted to and prepared to heal and minimize the damage they suffered somewhere, the state, the party, and the general secretary were far away, but clearly existed in this world, that they were not omnipotent enough to use the axial method or make grenades with pine cones, but were competent enough. This was the first year I felt it.

It may be a small fact now, but it was clear that it was firmly entrenched in the minds of the people and began to sprout and take root little by little.

“By the way, Lieutenant Yu, remember that?”

“… … What are you talking about?”

Looking at the back of the last relief train leaving for the disaster area, Jung-hwan asked as if he was missing something, and Yoo Hye-rim shook her head.

It was not long after she returned from last year’s vacation despite Jeonghwan’s insistence that she should take some more rest while she was gone.

“The railroad agency documents that we reviewed together in the secretary’s office right after I took office as general secretary. The steam locomotive was rolling on active duty. Even thinking about it now gives me chills. haha.”

“… … It has already happened.”

Hyerim Yoo also had a bitter laugh as she watched the back of the freight train disappearing in the distance.

If you think about it, it feels like yesterday, but six years have already passed.

“You have accomplished so much during that time, Comrade General Secretary.”

“not there yet. In fact, it is just the beginning.”

“For what you have done so far, this republic owes a great debt to your comrade. The people of future generations will be very grateful to the General Secretary.”

“I’m not old enough to write an autobiography yet, so tell me later, about 25 years later. Then, by now, even in South Korea, deep down, we must be expecting to lose our throats at how much damage we have suffered.

Thinking that Black Venus was probably too busy trying to grasp the atmosphere of Pyongyang by now, Jeonghwan thought in his heart that he was honestly a bit sorry for using such a thing for propaganda.

But the world of propaganda, and international politics, is a cruel law.

“When is the opening date?”

“It is as scheduled. I told him not to stop despite the flood, but rather to hurry, so I set it on time. But why on that day? What did the general secretary personally mean to that day? … .”

“There is. Not me, but in South Korea.”

It was just as Jeonghwan said.

Two months after the unprecedented catastrophe in North Korean history, in August, Jeong Hwan announced the opening of the Pyongyang Stock Exchange as if sneering at South Korea’s Park Yi-sam regime, who secretly expected the North Korean regime to be hit.

Jeonghwan’s face, cutting the ribbon as if there was a flood or victims, and announcing a speech to move forward to the opening of the skyscraper of the Peony Holdings headquarters right next to the stock exchange, which will be completed in a few years, was featured in the media around the world, especially in business magazines.

And on the same day that the first stock exchange in Pyongyang opened with flash and applause, in Seoul, South Korea, the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, killing and injuring dozens.

It goes without saying that this coincidental, but not accidental, date selection meant more to the people of both Koreas than any other slogan or propaganda material.