I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 115



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (115)

“Just one bottle of beer here.”

This is a bar in America,

A man wearing a low-cut hat ordered a bottle of beer.

The local bar owner, who remembers most of his regular customers and is a regular at his business, was momentarily wary of a man he was seeing for the first time.

I would say that the atmosphere was different from that of the so-called drunkards rolling around on the street. I spoke to him naturally while handing him a beer.

“Is this your first time in this neighborhood?”

“Why do you ask that?”

“No… You’re a bit different from the drunkards here.”

The owner of the bar flinched.

The look in your eyes that says, “What are you doing knowing that?”

I was scared and kept my mouth shut, but this time the man spoke first.

“Do you smell blood coming from my body?”

“Blood… the smell of blood? What… why are you saying such scary things…?”

“It wouldn’t be strange if it smelled like blood. I did something worth doing.”

The bar owner almost wet his pants for a moment.

Although I usually enjoy talking to customers about this and that, I honestly want to avoid this place right now. However, unlike a scene from a movie where the customer holds a gun and demands money, nothing happened.

I emptied half the beer bottle,

The drunken guest began to talk about this and that.

“Actually, I am a veteran who served in Iraq.”

“A veteran? Oh, so you’re a hero who fought for America?”

“Hero? Don’t make me laugh. What I did there was massacre.”

“Genocide?”

“Yes, what the US military did there was a massacre. I am an accomplice.”

The man’s identity is that of a U.S. special forces agent.

Although he achieved numerous military achievements and received medals in Iraq, all he is left with is regret.

The biggest guilt is that I killed civilians.

The US military, with no knowledge of guerrilla warfare, responded to the terrorist attacks taking place everywhere with massacres.

Rather than such a ruthless operation, wouldn’t it have been better to understand and help the locals and bring them into the army?

The soldier, who had experienced a lot on the battlefield, wanted to reform the military with his own beliefs.

“Your suggestion is useless!!”

“But, Captain, massacring civilians will only provoke a backlash from the locals. Sometimes, it’s also a good idea to try to persuade the civilians…”

“Do you think that will work?!! Our role is to infiltrate enemy territory and kill the enemy!!”

But that attempt was blocked.

If you’re a special force, you have to infiltrate enemy territory and kill the enemy. What are you going to do by recruiting civilians?

The principle was to kill unconditionally any civilians who reported their whereabouts because it would lead to my being caught. That’s how the man killed dozens of civilians in Iraq.

Thanks to you, my country won, but all I was left with was trauma.

Was what I did in Iraq really worth it? The man drank the rest of his beer.

In the future, the world powers will continue to wage war and massacre civilians for their own interests. How long will these dirty wars continue?

But no matter how much he talks, the world won’t change. The man who has seen many ugly things on the battlefield has already become a wreck.

What’s the point of me living this long when I’ve killed so many people?

The man said something meaningful to the bar owner.

“How much does it cost?”

= How much does the drink cost?

“Just one dollor

= Just give me one dollar.

“Oh god, I don’t have enough money, Let me pay for a drink in the other side.”

= Oh, I don’t have enough money. I’ll pay you back in the afterlife.

A guest staggering out of his seat,

The bar owner looked at his back carefully.

How should I interpret this: he’ll pay for the drinks when he’s dead? Is this just an excuse from a loser who runs away because he has no money? Or is he really trying to die?

The answer was revealed a few days later.

A man was found dead near the village, and the bar owner had a complicated expression on his face when he heard the news.

A soldier who risked his life for his country ended up taking his own life due to mental anguish. What on earth did America fight the war for?

I prayed in my heart for the souls of those who were wounded.

***

“Your Majesty, what do you think?”

“Well… can we use this to cut Kim Il-sung’s head?”

“Guerrilla warfare itself is the domain of special forces. I think it’s possible. It doesn’t cost much either.”

The same routine that repeats itself today,

I met face to face with Jeong Seung-hwa, the head of the planning division of the Special Forces Office of the Republic of Korea Army Headquarters.

Korea has embarked on developing firepower to completely crush its enemies, but is that enough?

War is not a problem that ends with just killing enemy soldiers.

What are we going to do with the tens to hundreds of millions of civilians living there?

The Korean army that occupied Shanghai beat thousands of people to death as examples to control the local Chinese population of over 1 million, and also shed much blood in Iraq.

So is that it?

I hear that even within the United States, public opinion is rising against the mass killings committed by special forces.

The idea is to win over the local population and bring them into the army, but is that even possible when war isn’t just a game of finding allies?

However, Special Forces Planning Division Chief Jeong Seung-hwa decided that it was necessary.

“The essence of guerrilla warfare is to win over the local population. The Viet Cong used this well to secure 100,000 troops in South Vietnam. Your Excellency, don’t you want to occupy North Korea with minimal casualties?”

“That’s true.”

“That’s why we also need to wage guerrilla warfare against North Korea. We need to inform the local people about South Korea’s advanced civilization and win them over. North Koreans don’t know how well-off and developed South Korea is. But if they realize the reality, they will cooperate with South Korea. We need to destroy it from within.”

I nodded.

Well, what is it that North Korea fears the most?

If the North Korean people realize how much South Korea has developed, if guerrilla warfare works, North Korea will collapse from within.

If war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, 1/7 of North Korean civilians will die, so wouldn’t it be better to bring them to our side rather than kill them?

If we win with less bloodshed, I’d welcome it.

We gave 320 million won in operating funds to Planning Manager Jeong Seung-hwa.

From that day on, South Korean special forces began the work of recruiting North Korean residents, shaking up North Korean society with food and money rather than guns.

***

“Your Majesty, we are in trouble.”

“What’s going on?”

“It seems like we are being attacked by South Korean puppets in a guerrilla war.”

“What? What are you talking about?!!”

This is Pyongyang,

Kim Il-sung was shocked when he heard the report.

North Korea is currently preparing for a large-scale guerrilla war, and in order to receive support from the Soviet Union, it must provoke the South and create a state of tension on the Korean Peninsula.

The Korean puppet government was vulnerable to guerrilla warfare because it was made up of people who knew how to fire cannons like the US military, but that was Kim Il-sung’s mistake.

South Korea is sending spies to North Korea to spread supplies everywhere.

North Korean people are in chaos.

According to the party’s propaganda, Korea is a puppet state occupied by the United States, so how did they occupy Shanghai and colonize Taiwan?

In addition, they are showing off their economic power by distributing surplus supplies to North Korea.

Kim Il-sung, who was greatly angered, went on a rampage.

“These guys dare to wage guerrilla warfare against us?!! And what the hell are the party cadres doing?!! We’re under attack and we just found out now?!!”

“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”

“No need to talk too much!! Catch the spies right now and send those who are tainted by capitalism to a reeducation camp to receive ideological education again!!”

“All right.”

But Kim Il-sung’s measures did not work.

Too much money has already been released to North Korea, and officials who have tasted money have begun to collude with South Korean special forces.

To the point where it is hard to tell who is an ally and who is an enemy,

Kim Il-sung, cornered, hurried to launch a guerrilla war.

“Bring me that bastard Park Sang-geun’s head!! I won’t be able to sleep soundly unless I kill that bastard!!”

“All right!!”

A special force of 138 men descended into South Korea through the early morning fog.

Their goal was to break through the 50,000-strong Korean Capital Defense Force perimeter, storm the South Korean government building, and decapitate the South Korean president.

It was obviously suicidal, but the spies who were being pressured by the dictator had no choice.

Anyway, the special forces walked 22km along the mountain and arrived near Gyeongseong, looking down on the city surrounded by night lights.

‘What happened?’

‘Is this really South Korea?’

The spies couldn’t keep their mouths shut.

As a specially trained organization, their loyalty to the party is quite high, but even for those loyalists, the night view of South Korea was a shock in itself.

North Korean people are still living in poverty, but this place is literally a different world.

The operation leader, sensing something fishy, ​​stepped forward.

“They say that all of South Korea, except Gyeongseong, is poor. It really is. How much of the local population must have been exploited to create a city like this?”

The unit members kept their mouths shut.

If that’s true, that’s great. What if it’s the same in other places? But now is not the time to bring that up, so I kept silent.

Anyway, the infiltration team was divided into five units and advanced towards the Republic of Korea headquarters.

We waited for dawn and then launched into full-scale operations.

***

Ring ring ring ring

“Hmm~.”

This is an apartment in Gyeongseong,

Army Special Forces Planning Division Chief Jeong Seung-hwa, who was sleeping, frowned at the sound of the phone ringing since dawn.

A wife who answers the phone on behalf of her husband,

Jeong Seung-hwa kept his eyes closed but his ears open.

“Yes, this is Chief Jeong Seung-hwa’s house. Yes… yes… honey, I got a call from the military.”

“okay.”

Jeong Seung-hwa, who was struggling to get up and holding the phone in his hand, listened to the urgent voice coming from the receiver.

[Manager, we’re in big trouble.]

“What’s going on?”

[A report came in from a resident a little while ago. Some guys are going around killing people.]

“What… What is it? Tell me more. What did you say?”

[I need to check the details, but they seem to be armed guerrillas.]

Jeong Seung-hwa felt cold sweat running down his back.

The defense of the capital was under the jurisdiction of the Army Headquarters, and was reported directly to its superiors.

Within 21 minutes of the first report, soldiers gathered at the operations headquarters and the managers sat at the table to collect information coming from all directions.

“According to reports from residents, they are coming from five directions.”

“Is the destination the presidential office?”

“Yes, but you don’t have to worry. The Capital Defense Force alone has 50,000 soldiers, and the police force is even more.”

“That’s not important right now. People are dead. If the damage gets worse here, I won’t be able to face the President.”

“Let’s deploy our entire force and annihilate them all. We can’t afford to miss a single one.”

This is how the operation began.

In an operation that involved over 100,000 military and police personnel, the guerrillas somehow managed to advance toward the presidential office, but it was impossible to break through the tightly-knit net.

What’s worse is that they massacred civilians indiscriminately.

The next morning, news that armed guerrillas had infiltrated Gyeongseong shook all of South Korea.

[Our military and police killed 108 people, but the rest are missing. We don’t know where the guerrillas are, so if you see anyone suspicious, please report it immediately.]

“What the hell is going on?!! Armed guerrillas?!!”

“These North Korean guys are urging me to cut off their lifeline!!”

“We should have wiped them out a long time ago!! This is clearly a preemptive strike!!”

Public opinion in South Korea is seething with anger, and people who are so angry that their hair is on the verge of collapse have organized vigilante groups and are taking turns standing guard at night.

What guarantee is there that these will remain in Gyeongseong?

The guerrillas were further pushed into a defensive position as the 32 million citizens of the Republic of Korea were on the lookout for them, even though they might have already been sent to the provinces.