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＜ Chapter 19. Special Relations (1) – From here on, it is paid. ＞

Chapter 19. special relationship (1)

“Then the general secretary has called me here to ask for understanding.”

“exactly. For now, our republic will issue a somewhat high-level, diplomatically well-controlled condemnation of your actions externally, and distance yourself from that for a while, because the outside wind is too strong right now.”

“…………”

“Soviet comrades chose silence, but as all the ambassadors know, we are not a great country like the Soviet Union. Moreover, it is humiliating at the moment that the reform and opening-up policy has been chosen, but there is no choice but to look outside. However, I would like to convey to Comrade Deng Xiaoping that the future friendly relations between China and the DPRK will not change in the future.

I want you to do it.”

“…it is understandable. I will let Beijing know that the general secretary and Joseon are our China’s unchanging friends.”

‘I took a deep breath. Although I couldn’t get a statement of support, my home country must have known from the beginning that it was unreasonable anyway. If only we get more tokens that guarantee a future relationship here…’

Jeonghwan, who sees through the inner thoughts of these on-going stories, scratched his itch even before the chanting in his heart was finished.

“In addition, to prove that the DPRK-China blood alliance will not change in the future, Chairman Kim Young-nam and here Director Jang Seong-taek will return to Korea as soon as possible. It would be good to go and do an industrial inspection in a special zone for reform and opening like Shenzhen, and deliver my personal letter to Comrade Deng Xiaoping.”

“…….ㅤㅆㅖㅤSe (Xie Xie: Thank you), Comrade General Secretary! However, if you are going to send a visit, how about sharing a glass of wine with Comrade Deng Xiaoping to commemorate the friendship between the two countries? As it is your first visit to Korea since taking office, we welcome you with all our heart.

I will.”

‘This uncle, I wish I could have done this to you who are on the verge of becoming an achievement in the world, what more do you want?’

Jeonghwan pushed his tongue out inwardly saying that he shouldn’t give the Chinese people a chance to do this, but in his heart, he gently shook his head with an outward expression saying, ‘Thank you for the suggestion, but now it is.’

“It would look very strange if I came to China right after I made a denunciation statement. Anyone who sees it will look like a fighting board. furthermore……….”

“……?”

“There was such an ‘unfortunate accident’ with General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who visited our republic just recently…. If I change the scene and visit Beijing right away to discuss the friendship between the two countries with Comrade Deng Xiaoping, there will be some rhetoric behind the scenes. . I’m sure you know what I mean, comrade ambassador.”

“…………..I understand. Thank you. Comrade General Secretary.”

‘It wasn’t my intention, but I guess I was using the grandfather as an excuse.’

As he watched the entire line nodding his head with a stiff face, various thoughts went through Junghwan’s head.

The present is a transitional period that will determine the situation for the next few decades, and in order for a country like North Korea to survive, the ability to move well between the current supporter and the enemy, as well as the potential supporter and the enemy, was more important than anything else.

At least it had to be, until the republic had the capacity to become self-sufficient. And from that point of view, this more radical Tiananmen Square incident was consequently fortunate for Jeong-hwan and the Republic.

‘Of course, I didn’t know that the Tiananmen Square incident would become so radical in this history… but I’m lucky to have bought the time. So now we have to find someone who can share a goal with us.’

To be honest, China’s existence was a disaster for the future economic development of the republic.

Isn’t it a world-class power with borders that has already started opening 10 years earlier, attracting foreign capital, and steadily accumulating primary and secondary industrial technology?

It was a big worry for Jeong Hwan that China, which is several dozen times different in population size and territory, devours all foreign investment and capital that should go to North Korea like a black hole right next to it.

Even with reform and opening-up, in the early stage, it would have to attract investment from abroad and collect capital and technology as if it were a frenzy, but the possibility of North Korea becoming China’s competitor in low-wage and labor-intensive industries, a weapon of developing countries, was very slim.

When comparing South Korea and Korea, his hometown, side by side with China’s economic development company, China, which could have been its biggest competitor, took care of it for a long time.

In line with the time when the Republic of Korea is trying to develop light industry in earnest and accumulate capital through its export-import policy, it has been left behind in the competition for more than 10 years by injecting itself with an anesthetic called literacy.

And now, China has once again injected itself with an ‘anesthetic’ by crushing protesters made up of its own civilians with tanks at Tiananmen Square.

Although no one knows how long this anesthetic will last this time, anyway, this was a huge opportunity for a country called North Korea.

‘Personally, I felt very dirty, but what can I do, this is politics. Still, in addition to saving time, I got the result of turning on the ‘blinker’ to change lanes in the future, so I should be satisfied with that.’

A few days later, as Jeong-hwan said, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a finely-modulated statement of condemnation against China’s ‘excessive repression’ at Tiananmen.

It came shortly after the US-led World Bank announced that it may withhold and cancel a long-term loan worth $800 million to China.

Although it was a statement that did not open up about the vague and controversial persecution of the demand for democracy, such as ‘oppose violent protest suppression and do politics for the people’, it was a small but surprising statement for other countries. it was itself

In a situation dominated by observations that they might remain silent like the Soviet Union or even advocate for the massacre of their own citizens in a similar position to China, “that” North Korea issued a weakly condemning statement against China.

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Naturally, these changes in North Korea became a topic of discussion even in the noisy world with the announcement of sanctions by the World Bank for China’s human rights violations.

In particular, South Korea, which has no choice but to look at the alliance between China and North Korea with more hateful eyes than anyone else, was one of them.

– ‘North Korea issued a statement condemning China’s Tiananmen Massacre. The level is weak, but there is a clear meaning of accusation. Huh, it seems that even the rednecks can’t defend this at all. Haha, even in the world right now, all the rednecks are dying, but…

– That’s right, don’t pour water on the frog’s mug. North Korean defectors say that no one knows how many people Kim Jong-il killed, right? Perhaps, in the last accident, several people in charge were also blown away?

– Oh, but wasn’t that what the Rosques did? Then hold on to this… Isn’t the president’s foreign policy now Northern diplomacy? There was talk that we might establish diplomatic ties with China, so what will happen to this?

And even in the midst of these disasters, the world was moving faster and faster, like a river flowing through it, toward diversification, multipolarization, and ultimately, the so-called global society.

In Poland, the communist regime collapsed, free trade unions were victorious, and General Gorbachev visited West Germany.

The European Community was rapidly uniting to form another axis of global hegemony against the Cold War and the United States, the ultimate winner of the global hegemony.

Everywhere you looked, the world could see that the Cold War was over and the ice age was coming.

And in the midst of such changes, the World Student Festival, which had been prepared since last year, opened in Pyongyang.

Although the disaster that occurred in China, a socialist country, just a few weeks ago killed a lot of atmosphere (even if it was not in the first place, the Eastern Bloc countries, which are the main countries, suffered a lot) and reduced the scale a lot (‘But I don’t have money to spend, but I should do it anyway’) of complaints

Because of), the festival was still a festival. “Hey, is that the North Korean general secretary? You’re a lot younger than I thought… No, you’re a young comrade?”

“About how many years older than us… Is that person really the leader of the Korean Party?”

“I heard that Severna Carea (Северная Корея, North Korea) was weird, but I didn’t expect it to be this much. You inherited the party secretary position from your father, what the hell…”

The opening ceremony of the World Student Festival held at Reungrado Stadium in Pyongyang was spectacular.

Although they reduced the overall size, they were told to reduce unnecessary show-off decorations and waste. Anyway, the competition and event itself remained the same, so the appearance of university students from all over the world (although most of them were socialist countries) gathered in the huge Leunglado Main Stadium Minister in its own way

It was.

And, as the opening ceremony was being held, the mysterious North Korean supreme leader, Kim Jeong-hwan, who must be the youngest member of the Communist Party in the world, appeared on the podium, and all eyes in the hall were focused on him.

Then, his mouth opened, and a soft voice came from the Japanese-made sound equipment installed throughout the stadium.

– Students and comrades from all over the world! A warm welcome to our Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!

“…………”

– In this place today, we stand for the common goal of ideals and passion, world peace and the happiness of the people, transcending borders, peoples and territories. Each of you who are standing here now is the future of our country and the pride of our nation. You can have all of these young students and comrades here.

That General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan is sincerely proud of…

And even after that, speeches about the ideals of peace in the world and people’s socialism continued for a long time, but most of the people in the hall focused on the speaker, Jeong Hwan, rather than the content of the speech itself.

It was thanks to him being famous as the youngest national leader in the communist bloc, but Jeonghwan, who was the real party, was screaming inside instead of enjoying the gaze.

‘Wow, that’s hard work… No, I think I’m going to die.’

But fortunately, thanks to the perfect facial expression management (and the area of the stadium in Neungla-do), few spectators saw Jeong-hwan’s sweat like this.

Moreover, the speech was not long, but it was moving.

In fact, the reason I couldn’t go on for a long time was because Junghwan, who was in charge of the opening remarks, hated that he was not at all in a good mood to give a speech.

– The current situation in our republic is not in a position to hold such a thing, so I don’t know why we have to play with clowns like this. If it hadn’t been for the report that it would cost more money to cancel what had already been prepared…!’

– Comrade General Secretary, this is the schedule to show Comrade General Secretary to the people of the world for the first time. You must show dignity as much as you represent the Republic.’

‘Damn, this wasn’t my constitution at all before my return! I’m usually in middle school… no, the middle school president election was the last speech I remember of my life! At least, he was elected in a fraudulent election because his father still had some money !’