I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 62



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (62)

“Let’s reestablish Japan-Korea relations based on Ahn Jung-geun’s theory of East Asian peace.”

Here in Japan, a strange rumor began to spread around the university campus.

An Jung-geun was a person who insisted that Korea, China, and Japan should cooperate to resist foreign powers, but the problem is that this person was hanged by the Japanese.

Are you going to inherit the thoughts of someone you killed with your own hands?

Korean public opinion has dug into Japan’s inner motives behind making such claims.

[Northeast Asia has long been a stage for the struggle for power among Western powers, and the recent war in China is an extension of that. In order to resolve these conflicts and disputes, we must inherit Ahn Jung-geun’s ideas.]

The problem is that Ahn Jung-geun’s ideas are all impossible to realize.

The three countries gathered together to organize the Oriental Peace Conference, establish a joint bank, even issue a joint currency, and form a joint army to fight against foreign invasion.

How is this any different from combining Korea, China, and Japan?

What’s even more shocking is that Japan has been thinking like this for a long time.

The Great Eastern Unification Theory proposed by Tokichi Tarui in 1893 contained the following content.

[To protect Korea is to protect Japan. Korea’s interests are Japan’s, and Japan’s interests are Korea’s interests. In order for Korea and Japan to unite, an independent annexation must first be achieved between the two countries.]

What a truly groundless claim,

What on earth are you trying to say by voluntary annexation?

Japan and Korea unite to form the Greater East Country, and then unite with China to realize a Greater Asian Federation with Japan as the leader.

That is the true nature of the Great Unification Theory advocated by Darui Tokichi.

[Japan and Joseon were originally the same people, but after the fall of Baekje, the countries were divided and separated for a long time. Therefore, the annexation of Japan and Joseon was natural – Tarui Tokichi]

The theory of internal integration did not suddenly appear in the 1930s; it already existed in the 1890s.

Since Japan and Korea are of the same ethnicity, it is natural for them to unite as one, and since Asia is one, let’s all unite with Japan at the center.

Is it just my imagination that this sounds similar to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that the Japanese Empire used to call for?

How many Koreans would agree with this kind of argument?

The problem is that Japan has started to seriously discuss this nonsense.

“The Korean president protected 870,000 Japanese people. Why is that?”

“Of course, Korea and Japan were originally the same people. If Baekje had not fallen, they would have lived as the same people.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“That’s right. And Ahn Jung-geun has long argued that Korea and Japan should join forces to resist foreign powers. Now is the time to realize that ideal.”

Japan is currently politically and diplomatically very unstable.

So, we need someone to rely on.

Japan maintains friendly relations with the United States, but they are of different races, and more than anything, just 10 years ago, they were at each other’s throats as if they were going to kill each other.

Can we live in the same framework as America?

So, Japanese thinkers turned their attention to Korea.

Korea is now a country representing Northeast Asia fighting against communism, and in addition, it protected 870,000 Japanese people during the Shanghai War.

Could there be a better shield for Japanese thinkers?

It would have been nice if they had stopped at the argument that they should maintain an alliance with each other, but there were people who went a step further.

“Japan and Korea were originally one!!”

“Let’s form a federal state and fight against communism!!”

“Let’s unify the banks and the currency!! Since our nation was originally one, it has already been unified!!”

“Let’s combine Korea and Japan to create a nation of 100 million people!!”

They did not stop at making claims, but established a political party and pushed for the Korea-Japan annexation.

As Darui Tokichi claimed, the name of the country was decided to be Daito-koku (大東國).

It was agreed within the party that the Emperor would be Hirohito, the President of Korea would be the President, and that a constitutional monarchy would be implemented. The official languages ​​would be Korean and Japanese, but that they would take time to unify them.

“Instead of doing this here, let’s go to Korea!!”

“Let’s go and make a formal suggestion to His Excellency the President!!”

This party, called the Daedong Alliance, eventually moved its base to Korea.

First, we recruited Japanese people who had moved to Jeju Island.

Then, he made an ambitious plan to push for the Korea-Japan annexation by involving even the Japanese in Korea and Shanghai.

***

“Excuse me… Are these people kidding me?”

“No, Your Majesty. In Japan, a monument to Ahn Jung-geun has already been erected, and the number of people who continue his ideas is increasing.”

“Haha~ You killed them with your own hands and now you come and worship them like Jesus?”

The same routine that repeats itself today,

I laughed at the report submitted by Prime Minister Lee Beom-seok.

Emperor Hirohito also once said, “Korea and Japan share the same ancestors,” but I asked him to refrain from making any official comments on the matter because I thought it might offend the Korean people.

But now, the Japanese people are collectively saying that,

Even if I concede a hundred times that that is true, it is meaningless.

“Mr. Prime Minister, do you know the history of Ukraine and Russia?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Russia and Ukraine were originally Koreans. But how did the Soviet Union treat Ukraine? That’s where the answer comes from.”

Ukraine and the Soviet Union originally shared one people and one state.

But when the Mongols invaded, the two sides broke up.

Ukraine chose to resist the Mongols to the end, while Russia grew in strength under Mongol rule before dramatically gaining independence.

So now that Mongolia has been liberated, do you think the two countries will unite as one? That’s impossible.

“Your land is now our land.”

“What?!! What the hell is that?!!”

“You guys are tired of fighting Poland. Shut up and listen to us.”

Russia literally robbed Ukraine, not only annexing it, but also openly ignoring and persecuting the Ukrainian people.

After the collapse of Imperial Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union, Ukraine regained independence, but the Soviet Union did not allow Ukraine to regain independence and annexed it again.

That’s not all.

Stalin pushed a policy of collective farming, causing a great famine in Ukraine, in which as many as 3.5 million Ukrainians starved to death.

What kind of person in the world starves 3.5 million of his own people to death?

This historical fact applies directly to Japan and Korea.

Japan has been claiming that we are the same people since 1893, but what has been the result?

There is no need to explain at length.

The reason Korea protected Japanese who fled to Shanghai was not because they were of the same ethnicity, but because their interests coincided.

Korea used the Japanese politically to secure military power to defend Shanghai and to suppress the morale of the Chinese people.

But why do you interpret it that way?

Do you think Koreans will accept the existence of a Greater East? The problem is that there are those who are seriously discussing this.

“Daedongguk? That sounds great!!”

“Okay, let’s get together this time and put the past 40 years behind us!!”

The pro-Japanese collaborators applauded, saying, “That’s right.”

Korea became independent, but the historical fact that they persecuted Koreans under Japanese colonial rule will never be erased.

So, isn’t this an opportunity to try to wash away their mistakes?

If they just sit still, they’ll get somewhere in the middle, but these scumbags continued their political moves by building friendships with the Daedong Alliance.

If you want to beat up a crazy guy, you have to bring in a crazier guy.

I secretly organized a political party called the ‘Korea-US-Japan Merger Party.’

There are those who want to merge Japan and Korea, but why can’t we merge the US and Korea? I personally set the code of conduct.

[The combined population of Korea and Japan exceeds 100 million. The population of the United States is 130 million, and of these, excluding blacks and Asians, whites only make up about 100 million.

If Korea and Japan are annexed by the United States in this state, it is not a dream that an Asian will become the president of the United States. Korea and Japan becoming part of the United States is the way forward for Asians.

Even if we don’t produce a president, it is possible for the party to have a majority in the National Assembly.]

It’s a code of conduct that makes your head spin just hearing it, but it’s Japanese intellectuals who have been spouting such nonsense for decades.

Are you coming to your senses now?

Thanks to the extreme prescription, the voices clamoring for Japan-Korea annexation have died down a bit.

***

“Captain, are Korea and Japan really becoming one?”

“What kind of nonsense is that? I told you all to stop spreading strange rumors.”

“But I heard that there are similar rumors going around in Korea too….”

“It’s just a rumor, just a rumor. More importantly, are you doing your reconnaissance properly?”

This is Shanghai, and General Park Jeong-ui frowned at the generals’ words.

The Chinese army is again loitering around Shanghai, so why are such rumors circulating in the camp?

Captain Park Jeong dismissed it as just a rumor, but he was still concerned.

‘If Korea and Japan are annexed, will my oath of allegiance to Japan be for nothing? No… at least I won’t be criticized?’

The President of Korea is not a great man who treats people with contempt to the extent of pro-Japanese activities.

Didn’t Kim Gu, a pro-Japanese independence activist who chose to make a living, take the test to become a police officer under Japanese colonial rule?

At that time, becoming a civil servant was the best path to success.

So Park Jeong-ui also entered a teachers’ college and became a teacher, and entered the Japanese Military Academy with the determination to die from being beaten by his older brother.

Is that such a mortal sin?

As the President said, the people of a ruined country must find their own way to survive. That is why even if the President and Japan get beaten up, the Koreans who collaborated with Japan will not be beaten.

But there is something uneasy about it, too. Park Jeong-ui hoped that this would be an opportunity for Korea to swallow up Japan.

Wouldn’t that make Korea and Japan one and wash away the past?

First of all, we need to create that kind of atmosphere.

Captain Park Jeong-ui went out to the scene and inspected the Japanese soldiers.

“何か 不便な ことは ないか?”

= Is there anything uncomfortable?

He was promoted to lieutenant in the Japanese military, so he is quite fluent in Japanese.

The Japanese soldiers felt a strange sense of kinship with their Korean leader who spoke Japanese.

“No, not at all.”

“If there’s anything that bothers you, tell me, because you’re part of the Korean military now.”

“thank you.”

A subtle atmosphere began to circulate in the Japanese camp.

Are we Korean or Japanese?

What is clear is that the Greater United Party is active in Shanghai, and if the two countries become one, what will the Soviet Union have to fear?

Several Japanese soldiers sent a loyalty pledge written in blood to the South Korean president.

However, the South Korean president did not say anything about this, and only sent supplies to the Japanese who had fled to Shanghai.

The problem is that even this obvious measure has a big impact on the Japanese.

The Japanese government is treating the Japanese people left behind in China as dead and not allowing them to return to their home country, but isn’t the Korean president taking care of the Japanese people?

Thanks to this, the Greater United Party grew its power even further in Shanghai.

With over 70,000 official subscribers, even Korean military generals did not view this trend negatively.

Since most of them are graduates of the Japanese Military Academy, there is no reason to harbor ill feelings toward Japan, and the differences of opinion between Korea and Japan will continue for the time being.