I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 50



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (50)

“Then, let’s start the meeting now.”

This is the headquarters of the Korean People’s Party.

The State Council was held under the leadership of Director of the Political Bureau Park Jeong-ui.

Why is the United States struggling with that leftist group in Japan? The Korean People’s Party analyzed the reason and, after much thought, came to a conclusion.

“The Japanese police are not doing their job at all.”

“No, are you saying that all those police officers are just sucking their thumbs?”

“You may not believe it, but it’s true. Here’s the information.”

The Japanese Empire implemented a regular police system.

This means that the country hired the police, and the police moved in unison under the direction of the state, and this was also applied to colonial rule.

So what about now?

The US military government abolished Japan’s regular police system and implemented a local police system, and now there are 3,214 autonomous districts in Japan.

Does Japan have the organizational structure and budget to effectively run these many autonomous regions?

First, according to a U.S. survey, Japanese local governments spend an average of 20 percent of their annual budgets on interest payments.

If this is the case only for repayment of interest and not the principal, then of course local autonomy cannot function properly.

Administrative districts are chopped up into small pieces like minced meat, and the budget is in disarray. Do you think the local police system will be able to operate properly in this situation?

As a result, there are more than 1,000 areas in Japan that are beyond the reach of police.

In this situation, do you think the Japanese police will cooperate with the US operation and beat up the rioters?

So, the US is trying to involve even the Korean military, and Japan’s administrative power is much weaker than expected.

So what should Korea do in this situation?

Park Jeong-ui, the political director, had planned to send about 2,000 to 3,000 people, but concluded that that was too much.

The problem is that Korea doesn’t have much room to spare either.

Currently, Korea has 180,000 military personnel and 200,000 police officers in charge of national defense and public security.

If we take out more than 10,000 from here, that much of a gap will be created, so we reexamined the US demand.

“The US wants South Korea to deploy more than 20,000 troops to maintain security.”

“Twenty thousand is too many. We have only three feet of nose, so where can we send troops to Japan?”

“If it doesn’t exist, we have to create it.”

“What does that mean?”

“We are using stonemasonry.”

This is where the idea came from.

Seokjeon Nori is a traditional Korean game that has been passed down since the Goguryeo period.

By the end of the Joseon Dynasty, it had developed so much that professional teams were established in each region.

However, Ito Hirobumi almost died from being stoned by an independence fighter, and the Japanese, who judged that stone plowing could be used to promote anti-Japanese sentiment among the Korean people, made stone plowing illegal.

But is that all gone?

Traces of this still remain in rural areas, the so-called stone plowmen, making them the perfect personnel to use as combat police.

If you think that stone throwers only throw stones, you are mistaken. In their prime, they were a fighting group that marched forward carrying shields and beat their opponents with clubs.

What if we used that to suppress protests?

Park Jeong-ui, the political director, tilted his head.

“Our rural areas have become much more advanced now… but are there still people who play such barbaric games?”

“Yes. In my hometown, there are still many people who get hurt while fighting.”

The congressman who brought up the subject was shocked.

Are you saying that you knew that such things were happening repeatedly in your own district and yet you turned a blind eye to it?

It was like being stabbed in the foot with an axe, but now was not the time to be picky.

Park Jeong-ui, the political director, decided to use the stone soldiers as riot police and, furthermore, to erase ‘local autonomy’ from Korean history forever.

‘Local autonomy? That’s a delusion babbled by separatists.’

Japan has proven that local autonomy is useless.

Out of over 3,000 districts, 1,000 are unable to maintain public order due to budget constraints. What a disgrace.

The reason why local autonomy is useless is clear,

If buildings are being built and roads are being maintained in Region B, but Region A is a rural area, will the mayor of Region A just sit still?

They will build buildings and repair roads even if they have to borrow money, but then they will end up in a desperate situation where 20% of the total budget will be spent on interest.

On the other hand, Korea is a thoroughly centralized country.

Because the government leads all industries and focuses its budget on one area, any business is promoted at a rapid pace.

This is why the gap between Korea and Japan has widened so rapidly. Director of Political Affairs Park Jeong-ui concluded that Korea must solidify its centralized system in order to develop.

This is something that even the Korean People’s Party officials agree on, and they have blocked any mention of local autonomy in the future.

***

“President MacArthur, come to the table!!”

“Respond to the barbaric actions of the Korean military in Japan!!”

This is America,

A group of protesters demonstrated near the Capitol building.

What angered the protesters was a photo taken in Japan showing a man who appeared to be a South Korean soldier striking a Japanese university student with a shield.

On the other side, soldiers wielding clubs were beating students who had fallen to the ground, and the university was left in ruins due to the indiscriminate suppression operation.

The number of casualties reported so far in each region of Japan is 6,468 (48 deaths).

What on earth is going on in Japan?

What is clear is that President MacArthur deployed Korean troops to Japan, and didn’t the Korean president pledge to join hands with the United States and cooperate for peace?

While the Korean army is beating up college students in Japan, President MacArthur does not respond at all.

No, but before that, does the US have a justification for sending Korean troops to Japan?

Democratic Party officials have been pressing this point.

“As far as I know, Korea and Japan have not yet restored diplomatic relations. Naturally, there would have been no military agreement between the two countries, but the fact that Korean troops crossed the Japanese border is a clear act of aggression.”

This is the Democratic Party’s official position,

But Republican officials scoffed, saying what could be the problem?

“Korea agreed to be under the trusteeship of the United States for 30 years. So the Korean military is the American military. Is it a problem that the American military was deployed to Japan?”

“You call that a lie?!! The Republican Party is making a false claim now!!”

“Isn’t that your specialty? You keep calling for peace… Who allowed the development of the West, saying it was the will of heaven?”

The western expansion and the genocide of the Indians occurred under the Democratic administration.

In the process, the Democratic president’s famous remark that “the westward expansion is destiny” became an immortal saying.

Even if the Democratic Party cries out for peace now, it is an indelible historical fact, and America is not in the mood to cry out for peace right now.

“Everyone!! America must stop nuclear testing!!”

“The United States must stop nuclear testing to prevent nuclear war and preserve peace!!”

The Democratic Party pledged to halt U.S. nuclear testing during the last presidential election.

The logic was that if we gave up our nuclear weapons first, the Soviet Union would also give up its nuclear weapons, but no one agreed with that.

If the United States stopped nuclear testing, would the Soviet Union stop developing nuclear weapons?

Even among Democratic supporters, many thought it was too early, and in the end, the Democratic Party once again handed power to the Republican Party.

Yet the Democratic Party is still putting ‘peace’ at the forefront.

What will happen if Japan falls to the left wing like this?

In addition, Japan’s local autonomy has failed, public security is unstable, and many regions are already on the verge of bankruptcy, so there is even talk of reducing the number of local governments to 1,000.

Is it possible to peacefully resolve the chaos in this situation?

It is for this reason that Korean troops were deployed to Japan.

Are you still going to disparage the Korean military as an invading force?

Curtis LeMay took this a step further.

“The best thing I did in World War II was to bomb the JAPs, and my biggest mistake was not to kill them all. But now that the US is ruling Japan, we need to find a way to control Japan. Sending in Korean troops could be an effective way.”

Republican Party members who defend the South Korean military’s suppression operation were also surprised by the statement.

If someone hears this, they might misunderstand that Korea is emotionally beating up the left wing.

Republicans dismissed LeMay’s remarks as not being an official position, while reiterating their position that the South Korean military’s operation was justified.

It is also true that the South Korean military’s suppression of the left wing was successful, with the number of violent protests that used to occur as many as 1,168 per day now dropping to just 94.

There is still a long way to go, but the results are clearly visible.

President MacArthur also turned a blind eye to the actions of the Korean military in Japan.

***

“Your Majesty, how are you feeling today?”

“Very good. How do you feel, Your Majesty?”

“Haha~ I like it too.”

Today, as the daily routine continued, I went out for a walk with Emperor Hirohito.

Japan is now soaked in leftist blood, but no one here cares about that.

The emperor rather welcomes the suppression of the left wing,

Aren’t the leftists the ones who were talking about bringing down the emperor and creating a socialist world?

From the Emperor’s point of view, the leftists are just traitors who need to be punished, and Korea is only punishing them on behalf of Japan.

The powers that be in power in Korea, the US and Japan all want to suppress the left wing. Their interests coincide, so who cares who gets hit with the club on the left?

I didn’t stop there, I gave a lecture on Japanese politics.

“Your Majesty, are you aware that local autonomy in Japan is a mess?”

“Of course. How foolish to practice democracy by borrowing money?”

“I think so too. Wasn’t it because Japan was able to develop by concentrating all power around the Emperor?”

“That’s right. But the traitors are ruining the country by using the plausible word of democracy. This is truly a big problem.”

“So what I’m saying is, I think we need to reduce the number of local governments to 1,000. That’s the directive that came down from the United States.”

“1000? That’s too many. I would like to take this opportunity to abolish local autonomy.”

This is a death sentence for Japanese politicians.

The reason why the number of autonomous districts in Japan increased to 3,000 is because Japan historically had strong influence from local powerful clans.

That is why militaristic forces continued to exert influence in each region even after the country fell.

But you’re going to abolish local autonomy?

This means that their base will be destroyed, and the Emperor is now trying to destroy not only the left wing but also the right wing.

Emperor Hirohito, who has not held real power for over 700 years since the Kamakura shogunate, is using this opportunity to get rid of all the troublemakers and declare himself king.

I gently pushed away the madness in the Emperor’s heart.

“Many politicians are shouting ‘Long Live His Majesty the Emperor’, but in reality, they are all busy protecting their own rice bowls. So, isn’t that why they increased the number of autonomous districts that were unnecessary?”

“Your Majesty is 100% right. You are all useless.”

“I think that what Japan needs is not local autonomy, but centralization. That is the only way to prevent chaos and stabilize the country.”

“Ha~ I don’t understand why there are no people like Your Excellency the President in Japan.”

“Why would a country as big as Japan not have any talented people? They all just died unjustly.”

“You said he died unjustly?”

“Yes, have you forgotten the Zodiac Signs?”

The military coup, also known as the 2.26 Incident,

Young Japanese military officers, known as the Imperial Guard, rebelled against social reform and military-led fascism.

But the coup failed, and after that, Japan turned to fascism, just as the Imperial Path had feared.

Why did the Emperor order the Imperial Path Faction to disband at that time?

It was also because the Imperialists killed Japanese elders, including Makoto Saito, and caused a ruckus in the Diet, but that mere coup was not enough to turn the tide.

The ones who rule Japan are the control faction,

The Emperor also has to watch their reactions, so what will happen to the Emperor if he supports the coup forces here?

If the Imperial Guard had been powerful, Japan would not have ended up like this, Hirohito thought, recalling old events.

I guess they realized that what Japan needs now is not local autonomy but centralization.

Having provoked the Emperor’s madness, all that was left was to sit back and watch how Japan would change.