Dear Comrade

Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 237

That year, in the summer of 2006, the police officers of the People’s Republic of Korea and the riot police of the Ministry of National Security were still concentrating on carrying out their duties while monitoring the protests at the Hak Chongryon.

However, to tell the truth, even those with loyalty to the regime and the party as the top selection criteria, many of them these days are tilting their heads little by little at the guidelines for responding to the Hakchongryon protests that have been passed down from the party.

I don’t know what the high-ranking leaders were thinking, but from the end of last year when the Hakchongryon (and their public security department) was formed to this summer, their response was consistent according to the policy from above.

-Never attack the protesters first, and focus only on maintaining order along with security. Do not stop distributing handouts or interviewing foreign media.

– The use of violence is strictly prohibited unless attacked from the other side first.

The upper-heads responded so generously that it was thought that they had lost their taste as they did not have to face the wooden timbers and stones of the angry Hakchongryun in person at the demonstration site.

Compared to the days of the former general, there were passive protests among some public security officials against the policy that was too tolerant and too far back.

At least not long ago, it was called the Patriotic Front, and the gathering of retired military officers attached there until a few months ago had turned around, and the party had secretly hoped that it would finally beat the former reactionaries.

However, even at that time, the policy that came down from the upper level was only an ignorant instruction: ‘From now on, leave the direct disbanding of protesters to the Patriotic Front, but never directly intervene, and in particular, prevent serious injuries to either side as much as possible’.

“Hey, if it’s like this, I don’t know why our Ministry of Public Security created it. The fact that a lot of kyohwaso was destroyed in the early days of this General Secretary Comrade’s leadership didn’t mean that there wasn’t enough room to catch them?”

“It won’t be. maybe.”

“??? On what basis do you think so?”

“A comrade from my military days was a comrade who participated in the remodeling of the correctional center, and I heard that the comrade passed over and over, instead of getting rid of them all, rather remodeling some of them and making them much better than before. In particular, Kwanliso No. 23 in Seongho District, Piyang, is managed directly by the party.”

“Are you getting better? Oh, haha, I heard that in the old days there was no money in the Republic, so the electric fence at the Kyohwaso was often on fire. Girum Now you can’t even dream of escaping? Damn it, it’s all cool inside. I wouldn’t have won if I put a few bastards over there as an example!”

A public security agent wiping sweat dripping from under his protective gear, refusing to respond to his colleague’s words.

Even though Pyongyang is cooler than in the southern hemisphere of the Korean Peninsula, it could not be so hot in midsummer, even in case of violent protesters, wearing thick protective gear.

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No, the second thing about being hot was that sweat dripping down my forehead was largely due to a psychological problem.

They knew that there was nothing good for the Hakchongryon side or the trade union side, to touch the public security first, so they avoided direct violence just like themselves, but they did nothing because they were intoxicated by the protests. The ridicule and contempt of the Chongryon side flew in every day.

– Hehehe! Hounds of the dictatorship, how many people have you ever kicked against the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea? Even so, they say that they are serving the people of the Republic and carry them around shamelessly!

-I would be really proud to feed my family by taking dirty money thrown by South Korean conglomerates and large capitalist donors attached to the dictatorship of Kim Jeong-hwan, but Girai? They say we are reactionary and dissident elements, but you guys, the Ministry of Public Security is the first traitor to the Korean people and the socialist system!

From the public security standpoint, who are just working hard at their assigned job, college students with glasses jab, who can’t even get a fistful of each other, do such a great deal face-to-face, and they can’t help but burst into tantrums.

Given this situation, some police officers these days have become so poisoned that they even wished that the Hak Chongryon would attack them first.

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No matter how much the superior ordered a conciliatory response, the Hakchongryon side decreed that if they attacked them first, they should respond decisively. I couldn’t help but pray in my heart.

However, the reality seemed to be flowing differently from the expectations (?) of some of these public security officers.

“No, getting better doesn’t mean that… … Literally good, like a hotel. I heard that they even built a tennis court for inmates. But again, no one is going into it.”

“?!?! what is it What the hell… … !!! Does that mean that weightlifters who do not appreciate the party’s grace can enjoy such luxury with the blood of the people? For what?”

“Mordi! But what’s strange is that it seems to work again. Before entering, even the counter-revolutionaries who said they were better than the party because they were professors of Kim Dae-dae and elite leaders, are also coming out with obedience. Don’t you know Kim Dae, professor of socialist economics, who was dismissed for revolutionary education after making a mistake last time?”

“Ah, the man who was caught saying, ‘Historically, capitalism has always enslaved all the people, and the party that switched to a market economy is making a big mistake’ during that commercial class?”

“Girae, that yangban also went to Kwanliso No. 23 there. My comrades were going in and out of there, and I saw the yangban, and it was a completely different story.”

“No, what are you doing inside?”

“I know, … … Hey, there’s a guy coming this way.”

The police’s counter-question, which was absurd, was interrupted when his colleague pointed to some of the Hakchongryun gangs approaching them from the other side.

A determined light flashed in the eyes of the young man and his colleagues, who were estimated to be roughly Hakchhongryon executives, and their faces were full of unusual expressions.

The police officers who saw the scene were nervously nervous, secretly swallowed a single saliva, and raised their voices deliberately to ask a question.

“What? Are you tired of arguing with your comrades on the Patriotic Front (tired)? Why are you standing there without the protests you like? Come back!”

“… … Aren’t you guys ashamed?”

“… … What’s up?”

“South Korea, which enslaves the entire Korean people, co-operates with the dictatorship in collusion with the US imperialist capital! Have you ever questioned the fact that you have become a hound of a party that is tainted by one-party dictatorship, media oppression, and golden omnipotence? You rotten minions of Kim Jung-hwan!”

“… … No, these bastards did something badly wrong today? If it doesn’t go off, no matter how high the guidelines are, my today must be… … .”

“Today, on behalf of the entire Korean people who are groaning in oppression, we will punish you! 👌👌👌👌👌 You servants of this dictatorship!”

“… … Oh no, this crazy… … Uhhh!!!!”

Before they could even finish speaking, some of the Hakchongryon officials who approached the police officers rushed at them, shouting like this.

Although they couldn’t be seen clearly, they held in their hands a metal object that jutted out and reflected a cool glow in the summer sun.

The police officers, who could not have imagined that these guys would be this crazy, were astonished and tried to pull out the baton (which had never been used before), but it was already too late, and they and the students fell to the floor in a lump.

Fortunately, seeing this scene, the other police officers in the vicinity began to run in great shock.

“Catch it! Take it! Take away the blade!”

“Aren’t you going to let this go? If you don’t release it right away, you’ve slaughtered the bones of your hands!”

“You crazy bastards! Do you see it as a bale because we stay still? Where are you going to die?”

“Ugh! Ouch! Aww!”

Puck puck peck… … !!!

At first, the police officers, who were physically superior and were equipped with protective gear, quickly jumped up from the floor and soon began to subdue the students who attacked first and beat them unilaterally.

Police and soldiers, and usually people, when their lives are threatened directly in front of them, their appearance as a civil servant or anything else will disappear for a while.

And when colleagues who rushed from nearby also joined in, the police officers who had been poisoned by enduring the unilateral street of the Hak Chongryon in recent years forgot the instructions not to use direct violence (in public) for a moment.

Soon after their baptism of fists, which were almost alive, the students who attacked the police officers first fell to the floor, covered in blood.

But there was one strange thing.

“die! die! Even if you chew on this, you won’t be able to eat it! I can’t go home on foot today… … yes?”

“This is… … ? Not a knife… … .”

A few of the police officers who had been beating students for a long time while grinding their teeth in a sudden life-and-death crisis caught the eye of the cutlery in question that had fallen on the floor.

It happened in the middle of a difficult situation, so after twisting my wrist and taking it, I didn’t look closely at what it was, but now that I see it, the weapon wasn’t a sword.

It was a spoon handle.

“Ah, no, this is… … what… … !!”

“Help me! Please help! Comrades! Citizens! These cops are catching people! They kill students with their bare hands as if they would kill them!”

“Comrade Lee! Calm down! people die! Here, the police are killing comrade Ri Kyung-su! The police have killed a person!”

Only then did the bloody Hakchongryun executives get up from the floor and shout whale whales, and in an instant, people flock to them and surround them.

Other Hakchongryon demonstrators who had been protesting nearby as if they had been carefully planned in advance, then nearby people who had been watching as if they had been disrespectful to someone else’s house, and then the people whom the public security officers were most wary of came in.

They were foreign journalists.

When the camera flashes aimed at Ri Kyung-soo and the Hakchongryon executives, who lost consciousness and collapsed on the floor, began to explode, only then did the police find out that they had fallen into the trap of these assholes, and they began to contemplate.

“Hey, arrest me first! Catch him and drag him away!”

“Vicky! Move! Aren’t you out of the way right now?”

In the end, Ri Kyung-soo and several other Hakchongryon officials who attacked the police that day were taken away by the police and disappeared from the scene.

However, from that day on, a small but clear ripple occurred in the public sentiment of the Republic, which had rapidly cooled down and was on the verge of being turned away from Hakchhongryon in the last few months.

And when the foreign reporters who had been waiting in advance by the Hakchon-ryon side were covered in blood and handcuffed and carried on the back of public security uniforms, such as Ri Kyung-soo, a photo of students including Ri Kyung-soo was published on the front page, and the following headline was taken and reported. started to grow larger with

-The North Korean Ministry of Public Security unilaterally assaulted three student protesters and arrested them! The detainees are believed to be alive or dead.

– North Korea’s Kim Jung-hwan regime, which was revered as ‘Singapore of Northeast Asia’ and ‘Asia’s most successful dictatorship’, is finally revealing its true colors?

-The Ministry of Public Security, which has not yet expressed an official position, ‘clear acts of terror against peaceful protesters’, ‘immovable evidence that this country is a dictatorship’. Pyongyang’s people’s hearts fluctuate little by little!

“Well, I thought this was going to happen sooner or later.”

On the day of the incident, Jeong-hwan, who received the report of the incident, muttered like that, and other Politburo officials bowed their heads to the ground as if they did not know what to do.

It was an attitude that he had no face to see Junghwan’s face.

“Sin, I’m sorry! Comrade general secretary! We were ignorant and caused this situation… … ! Kill me!”

“No, looking at the personal details of those comrades, they said that they were from Kim University, had excellent grades, and were able to study abroad. It’s a bit disappointing to take the wrong road and get into bad water, but everyone makes mistakes when they’re young. In fact, hasn’t the 23rd Kwanliso been built to be used for this kind of work for a long time?”

“That word… … .”

“Send the arrested comrades to the seungho area 23 kwanliso. They are talented people who will later become the pillars of our republic who are more loyal than anyone else, so we should treat them well.”

“I got it!”

‘My name is Kyungsoo Ri… … Water… … What a funny coincidence.’

It was Jeonghwan’s thoughts as he watched the executives blaring loudly in front of him.

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“To Kwanliso No. 23!”

The moment he heard the policeman’s voice pulling him up from the detention center, Ri Kyung-soo unwittingly grabbed the handcuffs on his wrists.

In the meantime, no matter what happens, even if this one body is torn, broken, and crumbled, I had no choice but to do so, even though I had promised to my comrades and myself to never break the belief in freedom and democracy.

Because it had finally come.

When I was arrested while attacking the police first for ‘Operation Torch of the Revolution’, which I decided after consulting with my comrades, the wounds all over my body were still throbbing. It was nothing compared to the coolness.

Kwanliso 23, where he will go, was like the bottom of an inferno, given the rumors circulating among the Hakchongryun and other protesters based in the same Pyongyang university district as them.

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No one knew what was going on inside.

It could only be speculated from rumors.

Some even said that the top torture technicians of the People’s Army, who disappeared during the Kim Jong-il era, conduct biological experiments in which they cut bones and pulled out tendons.

Another said that the prisoners were forcibly injected with a brainwashing drug developed by the party’s lab.

The 23rd Kwanliso is where political prisoners with rocky and steel counter-revolutionary ideas, even those who have secretly cherished the will to resist since the infamous Kim Jong-il era, fall apart and weep their absolute oath of allegiance to the party and Comrade Kim Jong-hwan. it was

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Not long ago, rumors spread that one of his gifted students, who had evaporated in an instant while giving a lecture on the corruption and corruption of the capitalist economy at Kimdae, also entered Kwanliso No. 23.

Ri Kyung-soo himself was also a student, but he was expected to be a formidable nuisance since he was an executive enough to serve as a delegate in the Hakchhongryon, the main enemy of public security.

‘If you want to try it, do it, these Kim Jeong-hwan’s hunting dogs!’

Ri Kyung-soo made up his mind like that, even though he was pushed by the police and his eyes were covered and he was thrown in the back seat of the convoy.

The other comrades, who had been living and dying together while avoiding the surveillance of the Ministry of Public Security, had participated in the same last time and were arrested, and it has been a long time since they were arrested.

Perhaps he had already died and was buried in a place no one knew about.

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No, actually, I thought it was very likely.

However, while feeling the vibrations of the rattling convoy floor, Kyung-su Ri made a promise to his comrades who did not know where he was, to his descendants in the distant future, and above all to himself, over and over again.

I will never give up.

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No matter how severe torture is applied, he will never be able to break his will to liberal democracy.

When I couldn’t figure out how far I had moved, the convoy finally stopped.

Hearing the voices of people outside, and the sound of footsteps coming and going quickly, Ri Kyung-soo raised his senses of touch.

Is this Kwanliso No. 23?

if not… … Or maybe such a place didn’t exist from the beginning, and he’s just trying to put a bullet in the back of his head and bury him somewhere?

And the moment the door opened and a light so bright that he could even feel it on the eye patch hit his cornea, he instinctively flinched once more without realizing it.

‘Am I afraid of death? Even though I swore like that?’

Just as he was about to feel ashamed of himself, who had withdrawn for a moment, a soft hand gently lifted him up from the convoy chair.

And the owner of the hand spoke to Ri Kyung-soo, who was dazed, in a kind voice.

“Comrade Ri Kyungsoo, no, Mr. Ri Kyungsoo. Welcome to Kwanliso No. 23. I know you haven’t washed in a long time, but the bathroom is ready, so please wash your body and change your clothes.”