1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 131



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Episode 131

The new House of Representatives, led by the Democratic Party of Japan, has once again nominated Prime Minister Hosokawa as prime minister.

Japanese people’s support was different from before.

Because I saw with my own eyes what happens when an incompetent, power-hungry leader takes office.

As soon as Prime Minister Hosokawa became prime minister, he immediately contacted President Kim Jong-guk.

The Korean presidential office, which had been so silent, was immediately contacted.

President Kim Jong-guk’s bright voice is heard over the phone.

“Hahaha. Prime Minister Hosokawa, I was waiting for your call anyway. Congratulations on your return.”

“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to come back.”

“What could I have done?”

It was a sad story for Japan.

This incident has now shown that China is now semi-dependent on Korea economically.

But paradoxically, if Korea had not put economic pressure on Japan, Prime Minister Hosokawa probably would not have been able to return.

Prime Minister Hosokawa briefly exchanged greetings and other light conversations before getting straight to the point.

“President Kim Jung-guk… Could you please resolve the 7th block issue first? The suffering of the Japanese people is more serious than you think.”

From Japan’s perspective, what was more urgent than anything else was to reclaim the resources from Block 7.

I answered with a smile.

“Don’t worry. I already told you to start again this morning. It will probably be back to normal in a few days. Don’t worry.”

“Is that so… Thank you.”

Prime Minister Hosokawa breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he could not shake off a sense of uneasiness.

Although Japan was clearly still a fairly large country economically, internally, Japan was slowly turning into an economic colony of Korea.

“But you also need to take action in Japan. You know that, right?”

Even without being told, Prime Minister Hosokawa immediately understands what I am talking about.

“Yes. As soon as I returned to the Prime Minister’s Office, I instructed that the UY mobile phone issue be returned to its original state. Sonya also decided to sell the UY mobile phone shares she was holding back to UY. It was too much to be greedy for the entire company when it wasn’t even Japanese technology. I was really embarrassed.”

“It wasn’t something the Prime Minister instructed. Now that everything has been resolved, don’t worry about it.”

Prime Minister Hosokawa continued to feel uneasy that, despite President Kim Jong-guk’s kind words, this was a process of Korea gradually becoming an economic colony.

‘I can’t help it… … .’

If we couldn’t beat Korea, we had to stick close to them and take the bean curds that fell.

Prime Minister Hosokawa shook off his distracting thoughts and immediately began making his request.

“By the way, President Kim, there is a Japanese tourism festival this time, and in Korea… … .”

* * *

Before we knew it, 2000 years had passed.

Preparations for the World Cup were progressing without a hitch, and Korea was also continuing to grow day by day.

It was hard to believe that this level of growth was possible with this level of economic scale.

In particular, the appearance of megacities was being completed one by one.

The image of Korea that the countries participating in the World Cup will see will probably be beyond imagination.

But in contrast to Korea’s growth, dark clouds were gathering over the United States.

It was Bush the younger brother who won the presidential election.

Although the father Bush was not originally a president who received a very good evaluation in history, the son Bush received an even worse evaluation.

Until 2016, he consistently had the lowest popularity rating among all US presidents in opinion polls.

Of course, in the original history, there was no case in which the younger Bush ranked at the bottom of the presidential popularity rankings when a blond-haired giant was elected president in 2016.

But, in other words, the story that this son Bush is incompetent was ultimately beneficial to Korea.

Gradually, people began to talk about whether Korea would surpass the United States within 10 years.

And changes were slowly taking place in China as well.

Jiang Zemin was preparing to step down as chairman, and the new chairman, Hu Jintao, was preparing to take over.

However, the appearance of China has changed a lot from its original history.

As growth slowed significantly compared to the past, dissatisfaction among the Chinese people began to build up and explode.

Protests began to occur simultaneously across the country, and public security became increasingly unstable.

Some protesters even called for democratization.

“Jiang Zemin, step down! Guarantee the direct election of the chairman!!”

Somehow they continued to suppress the protesters, but it was literally like a bomb that could explode at any moment.

And it was the same in Russia.

Since Putin came to power, the economy has found some stability.

But unlike before, Russia was no longer the great power that confronted the United States as it had in the past.

Putin was not originally the Putin of history.

Putin has always had to negotiate diplomatic relations with South Korea at a disadvantage due to the many bribes he received from South Korea before becoming president.

There were more than one or two things I received from Korea, and there were more than one or two things that I was vulnerable to.

If this were exposed, the regime itself could be shaken.

And Korea’s transformation into a major power also affected Russia’s neighbors.

Several Central Asian countries have joined the AEU.

Thanks to this, he could not forcefully approach neighboring countries like Putin did in the original history.

In diplomacy with neighboring countries, Korea always had to be mindful of their moods and act accordingly.

As a result, the Russian people, who had placed their hopes on him for a strong Russia, gradually withdrew their support for him.

With his dream increasingly out of reach and his approval ratings slowly declining, he was preparing to hand over power to the next administration, giving up on seeking reelection.

And Korea’s development has also created a great stir in other surrounding countries.

There has been talk in some AEU member countries that they would like to become states of Korea if Korea were to become a federal system like the United States.

In fact, in some countries, there were official discussions about annexing Korea.

However, our government has made it clear that this is absolutely impossible.

It was not simply that the land was expanding, but that integration between people was not easy.

The reason unification was possible in the past was because the division had only lasted about 30 years, and many cultures were still shared.

If they cannot share any culture, history, or language, they cannot become one country even if they were to be artificially united.

But this story meant that Korea had become a powerful country in the world.

Now, there is talk of Korea becoming a powerful and advanced country.

Although it was the world’s second largest economy after the United States, its average income had long surpassed that of the United States and the gap between rich and poor was relatively narrow.

The US dollar hegemony is no longer what it used to be.

The AEU’s won now accounts for a significant portion of total trade settlements.

And there, Korea had an overwhelming advantage over the United States.

That was overwhelmingly good security.

Originally, public security was fine throughout history, but now, compared to that time, it is overwhelmingly cleaner.

After several rounds of crackdowns, the gangsters were virtually annihilated.

The stigma of being a republic of fraud is now a thing of the past.

Strong punishment for fraud and recovery of fraudulent amounts that go to the ends of the earth have gradually helped to rid the country of the stigma of being a republic of fraud.

But for some reason, because the security was so good, I felt uneasy.

‘There is no terrorism or anything, so I feel uneasy.’

But when I think of the word terrorism, I remember forgetting something important.

9/11 terrorist attacks.

It was clearly the terrible terrorist attack that occurred in the United States on September 11th of this year.

There were a few Koreans among them, so they had to be stopped if possible.

As soon as the 9/11 terrorist attacks came to mind, I searched for 9/11 on my smartphone.

[No search results]

‘Huh? What is it?’

No search results were returned.

It’s not that anything has changed, but no information has appeared at all.

I searched for other things just in case.

But other things were still searched well.

Although the details that changed in history were blinded, they still appeared.

‘what…….’

At first, I thought it was nothing and tried to ignore it.

But as time passed, the feeling of uneasiness grew.

I ended up checking every single word of terrorism on my day off, starting with the 1.1 terrorist attacks and adding them to the dates one by one.

And the moment we reached the 9/6 terrorist attacks, a paragraph appeared that had everything blinded, and the moment I unblinded it, I couldn’t help but be shocked.

[September 6, 2001: Simultaneous airplane attacks around the world. Al Qaeda and its leaders hijacked airplanes and carried out terrorist attacks on the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and South Korea. A total of 5,320 people were killed.

In South Korea, the 63 Building collapsed, killing a total of 541 people.

Al Qaeda issued a statement immediately after the attack, claiming that it was their own… … .]

The arrows pointed at America had turned to the whole world.

And that goal included Korea.

“These, these little bastards… … .”

My teeth are chattering.

No matter how politically dissatisfied they may be, what crime have innocent civilians committed?

It was difficult to tolerate such an indiscriminate act of terrorism against civilians, but it was absolutely unacceptable that such a thing was done in Korea, of all countries.

However, this Al Qaeda was a guerrilla organization.

Originally, in history, a lot of money and time was invested to kill Al Qaeda and Bin Laden, and they were able to find and kill him after a dozen years.

Clearly, killing Al Qaeda in the remaining time was not an easy task.

‘How do I do this… … .’

Even if we prevent the September 6th terrorist attacks, it will not be easy to prevent additional terrorist attacks unless we eliminate that organization or come up with a groundbreaking solution.

I thought about it for a moment and then got up from my seat.

‘You can do both.’

All we have to do is clean up the Al Qaeda organization and strengthen airplane security.

We cannot allow such absurd things to happen in Korea.

We will take every measure possible to ensure that this incident never happens again in history.

And then, after a dozen years, my phone vibrates.

‘what?’

[System: 9.6 Stop the terror.]

[Lifespan reduced by 5 years if failed]

I never thought I’d get this mission again.

It seemed that preventing this terror attack would be a very important turning point.

There was no reward and the penalty for failure was quite large.

‘I was going to stop it anyway, even without compensation.’

But it wasn’t the penalty or the reward that was important.

Over 500 innocent civilians die.

We had to stop it at all costs.

The first priority was to gather information on Al Qaeda.

Then the vibration rings again.

[System: You can purchase specific information using 30,000 points.]

“what?”

And then a list of information that you would never normally see appeared.