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＜ Chapter 20. Regression and Advancement (3) ＞

Chapter 20. Regression and Advancement (3)

The turbulent movement began to take shape in November, nearing the final month of 1989.

The disgruntled elements wisely set their first target of attack not on Kim Il-sung’s son and comrade Kim Jeong-hwan, who was at the center of power, but his half-brother, Kim Young-il, who now serves as the party’s anti-corruption investigative bureau chief.

Although Kim Young-il was also the son of Kim Il-sung, he was a side branch that was pushed out of the presidency, and as the old saying goes, if you want to lose longevity, you must first catch a horse.

“Comrade Kim Young-il! Are you okay this morning?”

“There are so many elements of the corruption reactionary that forget the grace of General Secretary Ha Hae and corrode this republic. Come on, let’s go to the Investigation Bureau. I have a lot of work to do in the future.”

Kim Young-il, who did not take his eyes off the stack of papers in his hand while walking, muttered involuntarily as he climbed into the back seat, and the driver swallowed his saliva.

That roll of paper must be a murder book with the victims of internal investigations that have become more bloody in recent years, and those subject to censure for dismissal (dismissal) or revolutionization.

The driver saluted like a knife and started the car, arguing against the mood of Kim Young-il, who has emerged as the new power of the republic.

Bulleung…..!!!

‘I mean, these fortresses are strangely quiet. Just like a wildcat waiting for something…’

Under his leadership, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau has made remarkable achievements across the party and military over the past year.

The man in charge of the company who tried to deceive the Central Party by manipulating the output of the textile factory was dismissed from his job.

A diplomat who made a profit by smuggling cigarettes in Eastern Europe received revolutionary education.

Soldiers who stole military ryangmi and sold them in the market were executed by firing squad after a military trial.

Of course, just like a person wielding a knife and getting blood on his hands on behalf of a superior, Kim Young-il, who took the lead in such a purge, became the object of all kinds of hatred and murder from behind.

There were also vulgar reports about Kim Young-il’s birth, and even in our company, officers who gathered and chatted with each other kept their mouths shut when they saw him from afar, but no one was able to express such dissatisfaction openly.

To confront him, who is the son of President Kim Il-sung and the half-brother of the current general secretary, means that he is directly opposed to the current general secretary.

Kim Young-il personally had no complaints,

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No, I was rather satisfied.

It was his half-brother and comrade in the general secretary who picked him up and gave him the power to break the heads of those who had been ignoring him.

Kim Young-il felt a sense of exhilaration that could not be described in words as he saw the people who once ignored him or laughed at him from behind and now his complexion turned blue just looking at his face.

However, in these sweet days, even though it is difficult to describe in words, the smell of hostility, which always lingered like the air, had not been felt at all for some time.

Other than that, I was a little concerned.

‘Hagisa, if you’ve suffered that much for a year, now it’s worth lowering your tail. Am I too sensitive?’

The moment Kim Young-il thought so and smiled satisfied, the car that was running well suddenly stopped.

“yes? what is it Why are you stopping here?”

“Ttt… there is a corpse of an elk in front of me. I swerved to the side and drove away.”

According to the driver’s words, a carcass of an elk, which appeared to be dead, was lying on the pavement.

Since this year’s farming is bountiful, elk often appeared from afar to protect the farmers’ crops.

In addition, the home country of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau, where Kim Young-Il works, was located outside the city center of Pyongyang, which was already saturated with various party offices (of course, there is a need for work that should not be seen as much as possible).

So Kim Young-il also gave instructions to the driver without much thought.

“Then I’ll drive you aside. I’ll have to send the warriors to clean it up later. Anyway, the most important thing is to go quickly.”

“I got it.”

The car made a right turn to avoid the elk corpse, and soon passed the corpse and started running again at its original speed.

Kim Young-il frowned as he saw the corpse of an elk whose stomach had burst through the window next to him and his intestines leaked out.

What is this, ominously on the way to the morning lighthouse, freshly set out to see the official duties of the Holy Republic?

That was the moment.

Aaah

“uh? Aww!!!”

“…………”

A deafening roar and tremendous pressure came together, smashing the front windshield of the car.

Pieces of broken glass crashed into the car like a shower of rain, and the front of the car swung into the air, causing the car body to stand upright for a moment, and Kim Young-il was thrown into the back seat.

“Hey, big, uh… hey, what’s this…!!!”

woo!!!!

The car turned over, and Kim Young-il, lying on the roof of the suddenly overturned car, looked around desperately, bleeding from his forehead.

The driver seemed to have died instantly.

“This is… no way… what kind of outing…!!!”

perok

clink.

Kim Young-il, who crawled out of the car after kicking a half-shattered car window with his foot, barely stood on his feet and looked at the smoky road and forcibly grinded his teeth.

A huge pit created by the bomb had been dug in the middle of the road.

It seemed so obvious that Kim Young-il would have died instantly if he hadn’t moved a few seconds late, probably because he was driving to avoid the elk.

“The British public opinion is turning in a fun way. Comrade Kim, did you see this title too?”

“Yes, I saw it. Comrade general secretary. The morning after the wall collapse, ‘The Sun’ is helping us. It’s kind of weird.”

“It is a weakness of a democracy. Even if the writers of the media openly choose these titles, the government has no way of sanctioning them. Freedom of expression is inviolable.”

It was cloudy and Jeonghwan put the newspaper down on the desk in the secretary’s office, and Kim Yong-geon nodded without saying a word as if he agreed.

The front page of the tabloid on the desk reads ‘Friend or Enemy? A return match between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers.’

The first page was divided into two pages, with flags of countries expressing support for German reunification on one side and flags of countries expressing opposition to German reunification on the other side.

Interestingly, the countries opposing the reunification of Germany had their own UK at the top, and the word ‘Allied Powers’ was written at the top, and the countries in favor of reunification had Germany written as the ‘Axis Powers’.

Interestingly, the Axis section included the Korean Taegeukgi.

“Ambassador Heywood… No, it’s still under construction. But what about construction?”

“I met him before I came here. He rushed to me and asked me what the position of our republic was.”

– No wonder… North Korea doesn’t agree that East Germany, the same socialist country, is eaten alive by West Germany, right? I’m not trying to put pressure on you, but if you stand on the same side as the UK on this issue, there is a possibility that the re-establishment of diplomatic positions between South Korea and North Korea will be seriously re-discussed in Parliament.

“Hmm, so what did you say?”

“I did as instructed. First of all, in an official statement, as a member of the same socialist ally, we will announce our resolute opposition to the collapse of East Germany, and informally, through the Heywood Secretary, that the General Secretary will be in full agreement with Prime Minister Thatcher on this issue. Of course, along with what you said.”

– thank you! That would be great news for the Prime Minister!

– Oh, construction comrade. Please share these words with your home country.

– yes?

– Comrade General Secretary said that this statement of position is a sign that our republic attaches great importance to the future relationship with Britain. He also said that in exchange for such kindness and trust, he hoped that diplomatic relations between the two countries would be formally discussed in the House of Representatives.

‘Hmm, it’s going well. No… it’s a bit bitter to be honest, though.’

Jeonghwan thought to himself and tapped the wooden desk in the secretary’s office with his finger.

Anyway, at this point, Thatcher doesn’t know that the US and the Soviet Union will be in favor of German reunification.

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No, the U.S. might have predicted it by making a hundred concessions, but the Soviet Union didn’t know.

With the corpses of the Soviets slaughtered by Nazi Germany during World War II still stratified in Ukraine, how many people could have predicted that the Soviet Union would support the reunification of Germany?

Whether to do it after the Soviet Union approved of North Korea’s expression of opposition to German unification, or before, I thought about a good time to raise the ransom as much as possible.

However, if even the Soviet Union approves, immediate reunification is a fact anyway, so it was Jeonghwan’s judgment that it would not have much impact on Britain and Thatcher if North Korea, which was treated as the Soviet Union’s lowest subordinate, intervened after that.

Jeong-hwan self-helped himself that that is the infinitely light weight in international diplomacy that North Korea currently possesses.

“I… Comrade General Secretary.”

“If you have anything to ask, do it. Kim’s comrade.”

“If we are courting like this, is Prime Minister Thatcher going to make peace with us? To be honest, I don’t know why the General Secretary is so concerned about this… It’s very embarrassing to say this, but… Isn’t South Korea already a superior country in terms of economics and other things than us? However, I thought that Prime Minister Thatcher, a pragmatist, would maintain diplomatic ties with us to the point of jeopardizing relations with south Korea…”

“I will. I am a realist.”

Kim Yong-gun tilted his head for a moment at Jeonghwan’s direct answer, but he twisted his lips as if he realized immediately at Jeonghwan’s explanation.

“Comrade Kim. I just mentioned the relationship between South Korea and the UK… Do you think the British will take diplomatic relations with South Korea seriously? To the extent that whether to establish diplomatic ties with our republic or to maintain loyalty to south Korea becomes a major debate in the House of Representatives?”

“Gee… Oh, that’s right.”

“Although the South Korean comrades are currently ahead of our republic in many ways, South Korea is still not very different from our republic in perception to the United States’ best ally and Britain, which is a permanent member of the United Nations. Both are just divided and poor developing countries on the periphery of Asia. Frankly, I bet half of the members of the House of Representatives will not even be able to tell the difference between us and South Korea.”

Jung-hwan, who had said this up to this point, saw the bitter expression on Kim Yong-geon’s face and laughed himself.

Perhaps that expression came to mind on his face a while ago.

“The only reason they haven’t established diplomatic relations with us is that the Cold War isn’t over yet. Perhaps, if Prime Minister Thatcher had not been in a political crisis due to the current taxation issue in his country, he would have succeeded in establishing diplomatic ties quickly without having to go through such a headache. The Prime Minister of the British Empire, who once ruled half of the world, would not have taken the South Korean bureaucrats’ ‘unfortune to only recognize one of the two as Korea’ so seriously!”

That was the reality of the international community.

Even if there is a dispute for national recognition between divided countries, the extent to which those countries have influence over their own country becomes the decisive basis for which side they stand on.

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North and South Korea are also divided countries.

China and Taiwan are also divided countries.

However, each country’s governments are much more concerned about whether to recognize China or Taiwan as the ‘real’ China.

China’s influence in each country is far greater than that of North and South Korea.

The moment the atmosphere in the secretary’s room subsided due to Jeonghwan’s cynicism, Yoo Hye-rim from outside opened the door to the secretary’s room and ran inside without knocking.

Even though he is the general secretary’s personal assistant, at the moment Kim Yong-geon, who thought it was rude in a public place, was about to frown a little, Yoo Hye-rim explained that he had a good reason.

“Ki and Kim Young-il’s car was blown up. He saved his life by following the tenuous creed, but the comrade director said that this would be an attack on the general secretary, not himself.”

“…Who is the culprit?”

Kim Yong-geon muttered as he watched Young-il Kim, who had a bandage wrapped around his head and sat down in his seat, muttering.

At first, he thought that Jeonghwan wouldn’t be able to answer that easily either.

That is also the case, because the suspects in the question were too many.

Those who were dissatisfied with Jeonghwan’s purge, former members of the Politburo who were dismissed from the party congress, corrupt bureaucrats, and military officers who were reprimanded and removed from office were endless.

But, surprisingly, Jeonghwan answered right away.

“Obviously, I already assumed that if an attack came on me, I would start with Comrade Kim Young-il. And that has narrowed down the culprit considerably.”

“…………?”

“No matter how close you are, Kim Young-il’s comrade is the blood and blood of his father, President. There are very few forces in this republic who would ignore it and attempt to assassinate him in broad daylight. At least unless it’s the revolutionary elders of the same regiment as Abazi.”

At those words, there was a person who came to Kim Yong-geon’s mind.

And Jeonghwan also immediately nodded and said the person’s name.

“Oh Jin-woo, a former Deputy Chief of Staff, a first-generation partisan similar to Abaji, and has held all important positions from a member of the Central Committee to the General Political Bureau and Vice-Chancellor of National Security. And most importantly, I supported Kim Jong-il, not me, in the dispute over Abajji’s successor. It must be the inspiration.”

In fact, Junghwan’s prediction was true.

A villa on the outskirts of Pyongyang, not far from the company, was a place where Kim Il-sung, who had been poisoned with arsenic and had already become half mortal, was recuperating under strict security.

And now, there was an old man kneeling in front of Kim Il-sung and speaking politely.

“Sir, how have you been? This is Jinwoo Oh, who was partisan with the enemy .”