Rasputin of the East

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After the wedding, I met various people during the reception.

British Prime Minister Blair, US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, French Prime Minister Paul Leno, etc.

And then, I met someone I knew was coming.

“This is Seungmen Lee, President of the Republic of Korea, and Soang Cho, Minister of Foreign Affairs. your majesty.”

Prince Lee.

“nice to see you.”

I looked at him with unknown eyes.

Actually, I’m not a big fan of Prince Lee. Well, it’s a personal part, but it’s not without reason…

Anyway, that’s it and this is this.

“Didn’t Madame Yu not come?”

French Deputy Prime Minister Leon Blum, standing next to him, spoke. I think that yangban also went to Korea last year, did you meet then?

“Because I am busy with domestic affairs.”

Deputy Prime Minister Bloom looked very uncomfortable. It’s probably not because the Korean prime minister didn’t come, perhaps because the last time Patin imprisoned Jean-Paul Chartres on charges of ideological co-operation with the Nazis, despite fierce opposition from the Socialist Party.

“Is that so? It’s a pity that he was a very beautiful person, and he was a happy person just to have a conversation with him.”

Um… I don’t think it’s because the yangban who came to see the Korean political edition didn’t know that they were static. Is there anything I don’t know?

The most likely thing is that it asked South Korea for cooperation on the Chinese issue and was rejected? If it’s a request from the Prime Minister, there’s a low chance that I didn’t hear it, so it seems like he asked the Lim Jeong to even open a port anywhere.

“The two of you seem to have a lot of stories to tell. I’ve been sitting here for too long without noticing, so let’s get up.”

As he tried to get up, he glanced at Syngman Rhee’s eyes with embarrassment or not.

“Thank you for your consideration.”

When I got up, Dr. Syngman Rhee sat down and Minister Cho followed me.

“Your Majesty, can I get your time for a moment?”

“I have to go see my son, so it will be difficult to make a long bet.”

So-ang Jo and I met twice, and Syngman Rhee was the first to meet, but after Lim Jeong returned to Korea and officially merged, he went up to Moscow through the Far East Military District to meet me. Maybe that’s why we came together today.

“How is Korea these days?”

“It seems to be going well. With the exception of the Democrats and Republicans, most of the parties are almost either reduced to small parties or absorbed through consolidation.”

“It is fortunate that the political system must be consistent in order to push forward economic development.”

Well, I got a feeling.

So… you’re here to get some money.

But the story kept going round and round. That’s what diplomatic relations are all about.

“I saw the Russian military parade and new tanks. It looked very good.”

“I will listen to it as a compliment.”

“I am serious. Of course, our existing tanks will suffice, but with such a weapon, no matter who is fighting on the ground, we will have no match. The Russian Empire will continue to be great.”

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Mr. Soang Jo, who praised the T-45 tank, talked about it.

“Unfortunately, our armored units do not have enough armor-piercing ammunition.”

“Yeah, but Korea itself is a country that produces tungsten in large quantities, isn’t it? Tungsten bullets are the best type of AP ammunition.”

Depleted uranium is better than that, but it has not been commercialized yet.

“I don’t have enough skills.”

I know roughly. What are you doing with your bare mouth? You want to earn foreign currency by selling tungsten?

But we don’t need tungsten so much, because aside from the fact that there are mines in Korea, depleted uranium shells are scheduled to be commercialized soon.

Of course, tungsten isn’t just used for shells, but it wouldn’t be good news for tungsten producers that one of the biggest consumers of tungsten will soon disappear.

“And Korea is not a good environment for heavy tanks anyway.”

Well, that’s why we didn’t hand over many weapons to Korea either. After all, if we were to say that it was a foreign country connected by land, are we the only ones?

You should build a navy or, if it’s hard, an air force.

In our heavy tank system – the MK tank has already been pushed out or provided to the second class due to its inferior performance compared to the T-45 – it is handing over to Arabia, Germany, and Hungary at a low price. As a major performance enhancement project for medium tanks, a project to raise the performance to the T-45 class is underway. In fact, most of them are replaced, leaving only the shell, but it has been concluded that it is still cheaper than a new mass-produced one.

All light tanks were land leased, and many were sent to China and India. Thanks to this, there were very few armored vehicles reaching the Korean side.

Scandanavia, Germany, Hungary, etc. take a lot of planes, and there are not many weapons that go to Korea. Even after the war is over, weapons are what everyone wants.

“In the Korean terrain, it is better to have an air force or artillery, or a navy.”

It is not easy to say that they want to go to war with us openly or that they want to increase the army beyond a certain size without having an amphibious landing capability. Is there only one other country connected by land?

Air force planes can be used both on land and at sea, and artillery can be used even as coastal prisoners, so it is an appropriate type of military to raise without notice. It also fits well geographically.

“By the way, you don’t seem to be too worried about air defense, do you? I don’t know if you have the money for that.”

It’s probably not because of his mood that a little bit of blood drained out of So-Ang Jo’s face.

Did I not know that you were discussing whether or not to receive the Scorpion fighter that the US Air Force is introducing as the main interceptor?

Of course, it is basically the freedom of the sovereign state to buy weapons from any country. It’s not like there hasn’t been a country that has bought weapons from the opposing faction in the original history. We also sold a small amount of AKM to the US right now.

But isn’t it my freedom for the head of state to express his slightly uncomfortable feelings about the purchase of weapons from a potential enemy by the country where we have military bases? How you interpret it is up to you.

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Moreover, in general, selling weapons at a low price means that you want to influence the country. I don’t know if it’s the 21st century, Korea in 1945, no matter how much it took from the two superpowers in a unified country, and a lot of things left behind by the Japanese imperialists, it escaped the poorest state, but did it have the money to buy and maintain the latest American interceptor…?

I know that Korea is trying to bat in its own way, but letting it go is not a good cause to intervene, partly because of old memories, but even if Korea did bat batting on its own, we even incorporated Hokkaido and Dalian in the Liaodong Peninsula into our territory. It was decisive that a nation called Korea could fly and crawl in a situation where a navy was deployed and a coastal fortress was being built on Tsushima Island.

There was also a calculation that if you were dissatisfied, you could attack with a tank at any time.

However, I do not intend to fuss, and I have to pull the leash from time to time.

‘Anyway, not Yugoslavia.’

Since there are so many mountains and peninsulas, is it okay if I only have one yangban like Tito? No, that neighborhood is a single ethnicity, so I’ll make a balance patch with multiple heads.

I smiled bitterly. Korea is out of our forefront anyway. Unlike the Cold War in the original history, although the focus has shifted to Asia, our front lines are China and Japan, not Korea. Even in the original history, Greece and Italy were not at the forefront of the Cold War, just as Germany and Korea were. Japan and China will be at the forefront here. Europe is a bit fuzzy. The Soviet Union’s view of China in the original history must have been like this.

Sensei Jo Soang mumbled something like an excuse, but he didn’t really care.

“Well, since the Japanese left behind Frank (the code name of the Allied Forces of Ki-84 Hayate), I couldn’t stand it forever, so I wanted to get a new weapon. I have no intention of interfering.”

“Thank you for your understanding…”

“There were also some people who were talking nonsense about the relationship between the United States and the Russian Empire, but the United States and the Russian Empire are friendly, we also exported weapons, and there has never been a military clash, not yet, and never will be. It’s the best.”

If Russia tried to bring in US-made aircraft without making a single request, if it was not a passenger plane but a new US-made interceptor, it could mean a message that it would return to hostile relations with the Russian Empire. So, you must have paid a lot of attention to security.

Of course, there is no way that those who have the ability to plant a humint in the White House could not have been able to collect conversations held at the meeting room of a small country that borders on each other. The result came in the form of a troubled foreign minister.

There has been no case of clashes between US and Russian forces in China. Even if it were, I would never admit it. Even if a dead person comes out, it will be classified as an accidental death without word of mouth.

“But sometimes the people of the world know kindness as a right.

Whether it’s a military action or a plan to cut off aid and kill them, perhaps you’re mixed with emotions right now?

Can not help it. No matter how much memory I have of the Korean Peninsula, if it turns into a tumor, I can’t fix it.

Shouldn’t the parts of the body affected by cancer be excised?

“The Koreans will be grateful for His Majesty’s favor from generation to generation.”

Well, you didn’t come up with a protest below the level that you couldn’t even feel the blood flowing through your body from which nation. I’ve heard of it from other people, but if you’re a foreign minister, you’re disqualified.

With this one word, the Korean government must have been convinced that the ‘favor’ I give is a favor, and if I recognize it, I can continue to give it to you, but the moment you recognize it as a right, the oasis in the desert will turn into an abyss that drowns humans.

And that I don’t have much national identity or affection for my old country.

Am I Korean? no.

Was I Korean? Yes.

I was born in Korea, yes.

Do I have any memories of Korea left, yes.

Do you have any regrets about the country of Korea? Maybe, maybe, but at one time I thought there was no way I could fall any further.

Does the country remain obligated to Korea? That’s enough for a previous life. No need to compare them with the total trash who only took their rights and did not want to fulfill their duties at all, and the motherf*ckers who struggled to privatize profits and pass on even a little more damage to society, even with ordinary good citizens, no, more than that. Even compared to those who have contributed a lot, even if there were any remaining obligations that combined the past and this life, they have already committed enough to offset all of them.

There is no such thing as a sense of indebtedness. In the name of the country, I buried my hands full of blood, suffered from day-to-day nightmares, and suffered betrayal.

So, my duty is now over. It is now the realm of favor, not duty.

So I warned you. No, he was sentenced.

“I was a Korean, now a Czechoslovak, married a Russian and had a child.”

“……”

“But such old stories do not justify arrogance, I do not deny my ancestry, and thus will show some favor and respect to ‘your country’, and what you do not do to me is also liberty. I may accept some under the name, but don’t confuse favor with rights, just as a child who grows up and frees himself from parental restraints takes responsibility for his own actions, as a responsible person for hundreds of millions of lives, I don’t tolerate indulgence. not going to.”

In my hands, there were already too many responsibilities, and there was not enough room to add the weight of the already broken chains.