Dear Comrade

Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 178

Chapter 64. the wind passes

In early December 1997, the air in Seoul was bleak.

As the composite stock index temporarily falls below the 400 line, bankruptcies and subsequent suicides and divorces are reported in newspapers every day.

The year-end atmosphere, which had been fun until last year, has disappeared somewhere, and it is reported in the newspapers every day that financial independence will be restored in the next few years. It was a gloomy year-end with turmoil.

However, there was a job as long as he never lost his job in the midst of such a flood of unpaid wages and layoffs.

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No matter how difficult the country is, we have to eat Jjajangmyeon.

“Jjajangmyeon delivery!”

“yes? Jajangmyeon?”

“What kind of disgraceful bastard makes Jjajangmyeon in this state of affairs? I know where this is… … .”

A 125cc motorcycle loaded with an aluminum iron suitcase with the words ‘Changanseong’ written on it arrived at the door of a private house somewhere in Seoul, revealing a man with short hair with a wary expression on his face.

The delivery man was a young guy who dyed his hair yellow and chewed bubble gum like young people these days.

“Jjajangmyeon and Seolleongtang were delivered. Please open the door.”

“I never did anything like that. Let’s go out before the scenery. I’m busy right now.”

“yes? Oh, then, how are we supposed to do all these things? I ran all the way here on this cold day… … .”

“That is not for us to know. Anyway, don’t bother and let’s go!”

A man in a black suit with a strong physique for what kind of job he had, secretly raised his voice and said so, but the deliveryman did not back down easily.

It was so unfair that the deliveryman even passed the man standing behind the door and pushed himself inside.

“No, if you know everything about the current economic situation and pretend you don’t know, how should we do business? It must have been a call from here!”

“… … ! Hey, you crazy bastard! Have you been tempted to look back? Isn’t it off right now?”

When the delivery man forcibly pushed through the door and tried to get in, the courage that came out of it, the man, in shock, covered the inside of the door with his body and pushed the delivery man hard.

I was pushed so hard that I almost fell to the floor with a mixture of astonishment and anger, but surprisingly, the deliveryman only took a few steps back and grumbled.

“He’s such a tough guy. The world is ugly these days, but what did you hide inside even a golden calf?”

“Hey bastard, do you know where this place is? right now… … that… … Why don’t you turn off before you call the police?”

“Go, go. Ugh, as the world gets tougher, people get tougher too… … .”

It was so unexpected that he left the man who was trembling and grinding his teeth, and the deliveryman mumbled and started the motorcycle.

The man who saw the deliveryman who disappeared with the engine blaring before long, the agent in charge of guarding this safe house of the Ministry of National Security, tilted his head while sighing in relief.

“… … But these days, do Chinese restaurants also sell seolleongtang? It’s not even beef jerky… … .”

it didn’t matter

In any case, if the traitor who is now imprisoned in this safe house, a former NSW agent like Heuk Venus, does not cooperate, then they will really need Seolleongtang (in many ways).

It’s not something I’ve done once or twice in the Ministry of Security and Security.

* * *

to and fro… … .

Meanwhile, the delivery man from a Chinese restaurant who was rejected a while ago turned around and stopped his motorcycle on a nearby wall.

Even though it was nearby, the house that had just been rejected was a three-story Western-style house occupying a very large area, so it was just a turn and move to a place out of sight.

The Western-style house was built on the theme of a private house, with a 6-meter-long concrete wall, iron bars across the windows, and even a guard post at the front door and in the back yard.

It was a house that looked like something anyone could see, but it was for the final confirmation that he had just spyed inside, pretending to be forced to enter.

Eventually, he hid in the shadow of the wall and, without taking his eyes off the Western-style house, opened the iron bag and took out the military radio.

“It is Seomjingang No. 6. There are at least five Angibu Gannadus inside, and there seem to be that many inside. We will start the pioneering process in 10 seconds, so prepare well and enter.”

“I get it. Everyone, keep in mind, that never causing casualties is a teaching from ‘heaven’. Get it done quickly and silently!”

When the radio was cut off, the deliveryman, no, Seomjingang No. 6, a Southern agent of the General Bureau of Foreign Reconnaissance, took out the radio and a few other items from the iron bag.

The cylinder that looked like a long water pipe was an infantry grenade launcher that the Korean People’s Army had recently developed.

‘If it was like the old days, I gave a few stinger ballpoint pens to the shortwave Lazio and sent them down, but the Republic has gotten better these days.’

The Seomjingang-6 was loaded with a grenade the size of a coke can, thinking futilely that the situation of the republic, which has recently become rapidly prosperous, seems to be reflected in the budget for espionage.

Then, after judging the location of the yard that I had previously watched with the public eye, I carefully aimed it and pulled the trigger.

Whoops!

easy profit… … !

With a light firing sound, the grenade flew up in a parabola and over the concrete wall.

It was not directly visible to Seomjingang No. 6 because of the high wall, but the result was confirmed by the bewildered voice and smoke coming from inside.

“Hey, what is this? Why smoke… … Where did the fire come from?”

“It’s tear gas! Cologne, Colloc!”

“Hey, Black Venus! You have to take it out from the Black Venus inside! Coke, Coke… … ! Wow!!!”

While listening to the mess inside the wall running and running, Seomjingang No. 6 opened another object that was also in the iron bag, the fastener of the gas mask.

You might think that using tear gas in the middle of a city with a population of over 10 million is a bit overkill, no matter how prepared the upper level is to expose the spy network, but Seomjingang No. 6 was not concerned at all.

In the 1990s, student protests were quiet for a while, but when the foreign exchange crisis arrived, protests calling for the condemnation of the Park Yi-sam regime broke out again like wildfire. As a result, the use of tear gas to suppress them also became more frequent.

I also knew that Seomjingang 6, which had been dormant in Seoul for a long time, was very often picked up by angry protesters and thrown at police boxes or mobile riot police.

Above all, now was not the time to think about the rearrangement.

“enter! Bringing Black Venus Everyone, get your mind right!”

* * *

“what? What the hell is going on… … ?”

“Shut your mouth… … Collok! come out right now… … !! A car is waiting outside, so don’t think about it… … Whoops!”

The eyes and noses of the National Security Agency agent who opened the door with the smoke stinging his eyes and nose would be red.

Park Se-hwang noticed that it was tear gas smoke just by smelling it, and he also noticed that he had done something from the North side, which sent an emergency signal, but there was nothing he could do right now.

If he runs away and gets caught again, he will give up trying to convince him and turn him into a dead body in the wild.

However, the moment I came out to the yard with a wet towel over my eyes and nose, led by a few of the Ministry of Security and Security, the answer was dropped.

“119 ambulance team! What the hell is going on? Is the man coming out there a patient?”

As soon as the front door of the yard was opened, waiting in front of the door were 119 paramedics wearing helmets, fire suits, and even masks.

Seeing them already turning on their warning lights and getting their stretchers out of the ambulance, the security service agents didn’t know what to wrap around them, so they looked embarrassed.

At that time, the one who regained his composure first among the agents of the Ministry of National Security changed his eyes and asked.

“119? How long has it been since the smoke has already come to 119?”

“A little while ago, there was a report from a neighboring house that smoke could be seen from here. That person also doesn’t seem to be in a good condition, so please lie down and receive first aid first.”

“… … No, wait, you have to bring a fire truck to put out the fire, where does the fire truck go and why are there only ambulances? what are you guys Ambulances are used to transport injured people… … Uhhh!”

“There is one injured person here. Black Venus Park Se-hwang, right?”

Don’t fall for it!

The sound of sparks and popping continued in succession, and the National Security Agency agents, who had been burned by the shock absorbers pulled by the ‘paramedics’, lay on the floor.

When the workers of the Ministry of National Security and Security who were stunned and flinched in an instant and hid them in another ambulance asked Park Se-hwang, who was standing there with a bewildered expression, he finally came to his senses and nodded.

“Ah yes… … I am Black Venus. That one is… … .”

“We are from Pyongyang. We’ve heard of the situation, and we’ll take care of this, so get on. I’ve made this mess, so I need to get out of here quickly. what are you doing Don’t rush.”

“No, wait! I must not run or hide abroad! The first thing to do is to inform anyone you can trust that a coup attempt is going on!”

In fact, as if I was screaming in haste, Park Se-hwang learned about the North Korean Vice Minister and the coup plan related to him and immediately sent a rescue signal, and was thinking about where to report this fact first.

First of all (although it is an institution that you should visit at this time), of course, the Ministry of Security and Security and the military secret service were excluded, and other armed forces organizations such as Subangsa could not be relieved.

The Blue House had a chance, but the Blue House is not a place where the president immediately comes out when he goes and rings the bell.

Moreover, considering that the contents discussed in the top secret at the women’s house leaked out in less than three days, they couldn’t be completely relieved either.

Although he did not know how far the coup d’état had stretched out, it was almost certain that as soon as he found out that he had escaped, he would advance the schedule and enter the massacre.

At that time, what came to Park Se-hwang’s head were the influential candidates in the final stages of the presidential election.

(We’ll know exactly who it will be in a few weeks, but) one of them is sure to be president in the next five years, so in a sense it could have been better than going into the Blue House and telling the president directly about the coup.

At the very least, if you mention the danger of a coup d’état by disgruntled forces at a campaign or public event, it will attract the public’s attention and attention, so prevention is definitely possible.

But there was a problem with this as well.

‘If I tell Hyun-chang Lee or Im-jae Lee first and it becomes known, Min-jung Yu will criticize me for being a color theory, and if I tell Min-joong Yoo first, Hyun-chang Lee will not believe it… … However, I cannot gather all the presidential candidates in one place and inform them at the same time… … .’

However, Park Se-hwang’s worries were ultimately useless, and one of the agents who rescued him started the car and said:

“I’m going to beg right now! I’ll drop you off at the station, so go and tell me everything you know.”

“A radio station? No, why…?”

“The general secretary has already arranged everything. You said that you were broadcasting the South Korean presidential election debate or something like that live today, so I want you to take Mr. Park there.”

“… … ah! Come to think of it… … .”

It was only then that Park Se-hwang remembered that the new change introduced this year for the 15th presidential election, a meeting between the presidential candidates, was broadcast live on the broadcasting station.

It was because I had forgotten what day it was today because I was confined in a house without a window for several days.

However… … .

“But will the prominent presidential candidates that I go there meet me right away? Wouldn’t it be the first time that the PD in charge kicked him out because he was a psychopath?”

Objectively, Park Se-hwang did not have any means to prove his identity as a secret North Korean agent of the Ministry of Security and Security, not even his resident registration card.

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No, no matter how he proved himself to be a spy belonging to the Ministry of Secrecy, as of now, except for Park Se-hwang and President Park Yi-sam, there is no one who can testify that the following current situation is real, not a delusion of a madman.

-I am actually a spy of the Ministry of Security and Security, but the North Korean supreme leader secretly offered a loan of tens of billions of dollars to South Korea, which was in financial crisis through me. It is being planned and implemented, so it must be stopped immediately.

‘… … This is a story that almost sounds like a wiretapping device to my ears even if I’m the person involved, what kind of madman would believe this story right away?’

The problem was that he had to create an environment where he could report directly to President Park, a powerful presidential candidate, or someone like him, and to prevent the forward troops from heading to Seoul first, but for that, his objective public confidence was close to zero.

However, the problem was also solved immediately in an unexpected way.

“This is not there. Take it.”

“This… … ? ah!”

One of the operatives went inside the house and took a metallic object that was brought to him by Park Se-hwang, and then he tapped his forehead.

He had received it directly from the president a few days ago and had it taken away from the head of the Ahn Ki-ji without even seeing it a few times, but he had forgotten its existence all along.

“I don’t know much about these things, so I raise them, but to be honest, in the north of our country, even in the days of General Kim Jong-il, a piece of this medal was worth only about three sacks of rice. It’s probably less now. … … Surely it wasn’t something like that from others? If you do this shit and get kicked out of the door of the broadcasting station, you go out… … .”

“I beg you not. Come on, let’s go!”

Eventually, the car moved, and Park Se-hwang, holding the Medal of Merit from the Eulji Military Service awarded by President Park Yi-sam, as a means of proof of his identity, succeeded in arriving at the broadcasting station with about an hour left for the live broadcast.

And fortunately, it has been proven that the Republic of Korea has not completely forgotten the spirit of giving preference to people of merit.

Shocking news was delivered to the presidential candidates, including Lee Hyeon-chang, Yoo Min-jung, and Lee Im-je, who had gathered at the broadcasting station, and astonished presidential candidates and representatives of the opposition parties, they were skeptical, but immediately canceled all schedules and went to the Blue House to request a confirmation of the facts. did.

And Park Yi-sam, who was preoccupied with his speech to inform the public of the fact that it was very difficult for the public to accept, completely ignored the advice of the staff to deal with the situation quietly as the situation was the situation, and immediately responded strongly and set the last spark of his term in office.

– Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! I am the president! Now, immediately bring the Special Guards of the Military Police and the 707th Special Forces and arrest all the gents I call for rebellion! The Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Security Agency and the National Security Agency are all! If anyone rebels, immediately bring the chariot and blow his head away! It’s okay!

That year, in December 1997, the report of an attempted coup d’etat, which was delivered as an emergency bulletin, was recorded as the news that symbolized the Republic of Korea at the time of the peak of chaos.

After all the conspirators were arrested and the fact of the coup d’etat became known, 12.12 and the people who still have vivid memories of the rare remark that ‘a successful coup cannot be punished.’ It was a bonus that the previous two new military presidents’ pardons had become a non-existent event.

And finally, the long-awaited 15th presidential election was held, and the new year of 1998 dawned.