Dear Comrade

Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 298

Chapter 103. Boil the dog after hunting

“You have to be careful with handling it. He lost all his business money and house he had saved his whole life to a scammer from South Korea who came up after the opening… … When you hear the South Korean dialect, you glow. Two people have been killed and captured.”

“… … If you show a picture of a specific person and have them remember it, can you limit the subject to that person?”

At the words of the psychiatrist next to him, who gave him some advice, the man did not even turn his eyes and fixed his gaze only on the inside of the small window in the door of the containment room.

A straitjacket was wrapped around the body of the male patient, lying blankly in the middle of the containment chamber, and he stared blankly into the air.

It was clear that he was someone who could not be held accountable for his actions or normal communication.

“I do not know… … . Perhaps it is possible.”

“Okay, let’s do it with this comrade. Call the nurses and put them in the wagon I’m in.”

“Oh, I see.”

It was an uncommon request, but the doctor did not say anything and obeyed the man’s request.

But the man didn’t say anything to see if he had already said everything, and he was staring at the doctor.

“Well, even if the Ministry of Public Security needs more of our hospital… … .”

“Of course it is, but let me emphasize it one more time. That comrade escaped from this Pyongsong psychiatric hospital today during exercise class, so you know that. I’ve never met a comrade doctor here today. Do you understand?”

“Yes, yes! Comrade Director Lee!”

“quiet. You can just answer that you know.”

“Yeah, yeah… … I see… … .”

The man’s voice was soft and calm, but the doctor bent his head as if he had met a grim reaper.

And Ri Kyung-su, the head of the men, the economic crime and high-level crime investigation department of the Ministry of Public Security, and the head of the deep investigation agency, which he said is reminiscent of the status of the anti-corruption investigation bureau in its heyday, nodded and instructed the waiting agents to get the patient out of the isolation room. .

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The son-in-law was silent.

The hustle and bustle of the shopping street had already gone far away, and only the crowing of grasshoppers could be heard around them, and no one seemed to have just heard Jeonghwan’s soft mumble.

But to Kim Young-il, director of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau, that voice sounded like thunder.

“Don’t even think about it. By now, personnel outside the Bureau of Investigation must have been scouring your office with an order stamped with my seal, collecting all the evidence. Above all, comrade, no, Kim Young-il, are you not the kind of person who spent a very short time with me?”

“… … .”

Jeonghwan didn’t raise his voice, blush, or pull out his gun and aim, but at those words, Kim Young-il trembled as if he had been hit by an arrow.

After taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth with a look of despair as if he had put everything down.

“… … Comrade General Secretary since when did you start doubting me?”

“It’s been quite a while. But it was only recently that I was convinced. First of all, the first trigger is that, in all these situations, there was almost no case of approaching the military being detected. If someone had really made a serious decision to overthrow me, they would have taken over the military in the first place.”

“haha… … I didn’t even think about it in the first place. I didn’t even think Baek Seung-cheol would pass on to me… … If I recall the distant memories, Chasu Baek was in a position where he was not trusted by his comrades, and I was in a position where he was appointed as a comrade’s brother-in-law to check Kim Jong-il’s vassals… … Now it’s just the opposite… … .”

Even now, Kim Young-il burst out an empty laugh as if he couldn’t believe his situation, but Jung-hwan was still calm.

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No, at least on the outside, he seemed calm.

“From there, thinking backwards, everything was explained. As the head of the Bureau of Investigation, you had access to all the secrets. Ryom Jeong-hoon also died while being investigated by the Bureau of Investigation, and even in the wiretapping for internal affairs within the party, there is no big guy in this republic who dares to wiretap the office of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau unless I direct it. ”

“… … .”

“The thing that bothered me more than anything else was that the investigation itself was proceeding too slowly and that the bureaucracy you led was so incompetent that I thought it was the same organization as before. Until now, the comrade I know named Kim Young-il was only crazy about party dance, so he was not a comrade who tolerated such incompetence.”

“I am a human too, comrade. As I said earlier, when water is stagnant, it rots and people change, but you overestimated me as a human being… … . From that point of view, it seems that Lee Young-bak saw exactly the person named than Comrade General Secretary.”

Jeonghwan asked with a change of expression for the first time at those words that sounded like lamentations or excuses.

The betrayal and anger towards Kim Young-il, which he had been hiding so far, seemed to seep into the question, at least once.

“What was the purpose of doing this? I covet the position of general secretary, so I’m asking for the same excuse, but put it away. I know very well that my comrade is not that type of person. I’d rather not know if it’s for any other reason, at least my comrade isn’t the kind of person who would plan a treason that wouldn’t happen because of his lust for power.”

“… … I don’t know if you remember, but I also have a family. Ahn Hae (wife) who is still young and has been struggling with her since she was given a heavy duty by the general secretary even though she is not an executive. … A son, a daughter who is still in middle school, and a comrade Kim Myung-ae, who died today, are still alive.”

Jeonghwan listened to his complaint without saying anything to Kim Yeong-il, who suddenly said something else.

Although he had never really realized it, it reminded him of the fact that he was his half-brother and one of the ‘baekdu bloodlines’ born to one of Kim Il-sung’s mistresses, such as his mother Kim Myung-ae, whose funeral was held today.

“Well, one day my daughter came home from school and started crying. When I asked why, all the children around me who went to the same middle school in Pyongyang wore foreign luxury goods since they were young, but I couldn’t do that, so I heard that my comrades made fun of me because I was really the daughter of an executive who asked me to give it to the party. Do you know what it felt like back then? It is said that this Kim Young-il lived a life of true integrity. Almost stupid.”

“… … So, was it after all? money? Are you saying that you betrayed my trust of 25 years and committed this kind of betrayal just for that reason?”

“Of course, it wasn’t like that in the first place. When I was young, 25 years ago, when I was young, when I was first hired and entrusted with the affairs of the party, it was the best to just repay the party’s work and the trust of the general secretary. It was fun to wield the power you entrusted to me and blow away the heads of those who persecuted me.”

“But why… … .”

“But after 10 or 20 years without knowing how the day goes by like this… … Suddenly, time started running out. Little by little, I had a different thought as to whether I could live like this. Thinking about the future, … … After retiring from this position as chief of investigation.”

At Kim Young-il’s ridiculously simple answer, Jung-hwan looked down again in anger and shut his mouth.

Little by little, he began to guess what Kim Young-il was talking about and what kind of change in his heart he had been through.

25 years after reform and opening up, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has already become richer than before.

Unlike in the past, when the poor and poor were divided by whether or not there was a TV in the living room as in the past, an era has opened in which middle-class people can also travel abroad with their own cars.

Of course, in the midst of that change, there were numerous corruption and corruption cases, mainly committed by party officials, but at the beginning of the opening, an extra-legal institution called the Bureau of Investigation and the head of a Baekdu-born director who oversees the organization were cracked down like Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The railroad, where corruption is everywhere, could have been avoided long ago.

However, as the years passed and no one dared to avoid the bureaucracy and commit corruption, the bureau’s work began to decrease little by little, and the scope of its authority was also changing to a more closely related to life than the early high-level corruption. .

And it was at that time that even the heart of Kim Young-il, who was like a blade, began to rust.

“Because it’s a former republic, comrade general secretary and I were both poor when we were young, so if we had to say corruption, it was only about swindling US dollars or importing German cars and driving them secretly… … Nowadays, in almost all capitalist countries, including republics and south Korea, how much money is invested in the future of children and grandchildren is determined.”

“… … .”

“My generation is trusted by the general secretary, so even if I don’t have to worry about my body for the rest of my life, I suddenly thought about what my children and their children should depend on to live on. After I die, no, after I step down from my seat, the people who have a crush on me will not do anything to harm me. Even if it wasn’t for that, I suddenly felt so foolish when I imagined my bloodline struggling to get a job in the business establishments of the business people who once trembled in front of me. I even thought about what the hell I was doing without taking any possessions, haha… … .”

It was from that time.

Like everyone else, it was very easy the first time.

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No one, not even Jeong-hwan, had ever thought that Kim Young-il would become corrupt, so a conviction quickly grew in Kim Young-il’s mind that no one would notice even if he ate a little.

And it didn’t take long for one to become two, and two to become three, four, and more.

But eventually, due to a small mistake, a clue got into someone’s ear, and as if someone had a lot of experience in this kind of thing, he traced back the connections with various ghost companies, his personal connections, and the strings of the borrowed-name accounts, and with solid evidence, Kim Young-il’s office came to appear in

That someone was Lee Young-bak.

“Do you remember what I said when I investigated comrade Choi Seung-il? … . They say that there is no business in front of money. Lee Young-bak knew the truth all too well. No, maybe he just had eyes that could see through human nature… … . When I woke up, I saw that I was having a drink with someone like Giron Lee Young-bak, whom I hated so much when I was young.”

“… … So, in a sense, my comrade didn’t choose Lee Young-bak as my face, but… … .”

“Lee Young-bak chose me as the back boat. Well, that comrade is a comrade who has often dealt with large amounts of money than me, so he was thinking of making a hammock much bigger than hundreds of millions of dollars. but… … Now, these excuses are of no use.”

Looking down at Kim Young-il, who bowed his head and sighed, Jeong-hwan sank inwardly.

It was a fact that I noticed to some extent from the time when there was little access to the People’s Army and military personnel, but in fact, Jung-hwan himself was suspicious that someone with different purposes was mixed among the conspirators.

As always, power comes from the gun barrel, and no matter how much he draws in the faction within the party called the Thames River, the military is still absolutely on his side. So if they endured to the end, there was no way for them to do anything.

So, as Kim Young-il intended, he almost forgot that Jang Seong-taek, who was close to China, was really the culprit. noticed

From there, Jeong-hwan actually began to suspect that Lee Young-bak’s motive, at least the motive of someone in the party, was something much more simplistic, rather than grandiose, such as overthrowing the system.