Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 201



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#Episode 201 Clean Bomb

Francesca Donner Rhee, who was called Mrs. Ho.

The name on the Korean family register is ‘Francisca Tona’, but she has no relation to Australia at all.

At that time, people confused it with Austria, so it got its own nickname, Hoju House.

Anyway, this blue-eyed man’s wife was not good at Korean.

Although he was fluent in German and French, the languages ​​of his native Austria, and English.

Before I returned to Korea with Woo-nam, this was neither a flaw nor an inconvenience.

My husband, Woo-nam, has lived in the United States almost since he was a young man.

He is also a doctor who graduated from Harvard and Princeton.

Therefore, there was no problem communicating in English, and she almost always used English when helping her husband with his work.

But now it is Korea.

There were very few people around me who could speak English, so it was difficult to communicate with people at home.

I knew how to speak simple Korean, but that wasn’t enough.

As I continued to try my best at everyday Korean, I was able to learn it to a certain extent and didn’t have any major inconveniences, but the problem is, how can a person make a living just speaking simple words?

My husband, Woo-nam, was always busy surrounded by Koreans, so I couldn’t even talk to him during the day, so my loneliness piled up day by day.

The person who appeared at that time was Maria Park.

She is the wife of her husband’s secretary Lee Ki-poong, and was released after serving five years in prison on charges of being pro-Japanese when the country was occupied by the Japanese.

Her husband had already been arrested when he returned to Korea, and Francesca was a bit reluctant at first when Lee Ki-poong said he would talk to her and help her with housework.

It’s because of her past actions.

But my husband also suggested that it would be helpful, so I met him and, oh my!

Since coming to Korea, this is the first time I have met someone who I feel so close with and who is like a tongue in my mouth.

First of all, I heard that you graduated from graduate school in the United States, but is that really different?

He was fluent in English, so there was no problem communicating with him.

Moreover, she was so friendly and took on all the household chores so well that it was difficult to imagine life in Korea without her.

There was a Korean woman who was good at English and smart before.

Youngshin Lim.

She was a female politician who received a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, but Francesca strangely disliked her.

It felt like he looked down on me for some reason, and my personality didn’t match well.

Meanwhile, I learned that there were rumors that she and her husband were having an affair.

In the still conservative Korean society, there were rumors that she was not fit to be the wife of a husband who had to do something big in the future, and there were even rumors that she was trying to push her out and take over as the hostess of Ehwajang.

Therefore, Im Young-shin was strictly prohibited from entering Ewhajang.

My husband was puzzled at first, but later he let it go when he said he hated it so much.

Then Maria Park appeared.

To Francesca, she was now considered someone more precious than her own sisters.

“Don’t say anything more about your wife! “How terrible is my wife?”

“Doctor!”

“Uh-huh! Ki-Bung’s wife is more important to my family than her own sisters! “I can’t help it anymore!”

“… … .”

Song Jin-woo was really weak.

Big things are ahead.

We must somehow ensure that the Liberal Democratic Party takes its place in this election.

However, Woo-nam is not allowed to talk about the noise in the house.

Woo-nam must have been embarrassed by the disappointed Song Jin-woo, so he quietly spoke to him as if to comfort him.

“I will warn Kiboong. “But I hope you don’t say anything more about Ki-bung’s wife.”

“All right.”

Song Jin-woo came out of Ehwajang and looked at the darkening sky.

“Did I make a wrong choice?”

But it has already been chosen.

Regret was meaningless.

“I guess I should have a drink with the Inchon guy.”

It was the wrong day to fall asleep without alcohol.

* * *

September 22, 1952.

Elugelab Island, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, South Pacific.

It is truly an island the size of your palm.

However, dozens of people were crowded around this small island.

“Hurry! “It’s almost experiment time!”

“There is nothing wrong with our inspection.”

“okay? Are you sure?”

“Yes, warden. All that needs to be done is confirmation from the U.S.”

“Wow, you kids are so damn slow. hey! Jordan!”

A middle-aged man wearing a protective suit with the Taegeukgi flag on his chest called out to a white man off to one side.

“Why but? red?”

“Can you hurry up? “Isn’t time running out?”

“Please don’t say ‘hurry, hurry’. “I’m stressed.”

“Okay, so hurry up!”

“… … .”

Dr. Jordan Carson Mark, the top US official, shook his head.

This is because while working with the Republic of Korea on this project, the song ‘Palali, Quickly’ was very piercing.

Still, it was true that the speed of this experiment had sped up thanks to this, so I couldn’t say anything, so I ran directly to the steel structure on the island and started shouting.

“Hurry up! Hurry up! quickly! Do it quickly, you bastards! “I’m being harassed by that Hongga guy again!”

“… … .”

“… … .”

The researchers’ work has become faster.

After about an hour like that.

“It’s all over. “There is nothing wrong.”

“I get it. red! “We’re done too!”

“okay? Then let’s withdraw!”

“okay!”

Helicopters waiting at a nearby heliport quickly left the island, picking up Korean and American researchers who were on the island.

And the place they headed was the ROK-US joint fleet at sea about 100km away from the island.

Midway-class aircraft carrier number 3, Coral Sea CV-43.

On the aircraft carrier, South Korea’s Minister of National Defense Ko Seok-man and General MacArthur, the top American observer of this test, were looking at Ilugelup Island.

“It looks like the inspection is over, general.”

“okay. “I’m really looking forward to this experiment.”

“ha ha ha! It will be fine. “It was developed jointly by the Republic of Korea and the United States, right?”

“How did you really come up with this? “You use an atomic bomb as a catalyst to cause hydrogen fusion?”

“ha ha ha! “The people in our country are quite smart.”

“It’s really amazing.”

Today is the first hydrogen bomb test in human history.

It was also jointly developed by Korea and the United States.

The reason why Korea and the United States jointly developed the hydrogen bomb was because history had changed a lot.

Originally, in history, it was the Soviet Union that made the United States hasten the development of the hydrogen bomb.

The United States expected that it would take at least 10 years before the Soviet Union possessed an atomic bomb.

But that expectation was completely wrong.

The Soviet Union succeeded in detonating a 22 kg atomic bomb at a test site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, on August 29, 1949, more than six years earlier than the United States expected.

The atomic bomb is no longer the exclusive possession of the United States.

And the reason why the Soviet Union was able to develop the atomic bomb much faster than expected was because of the activities of spies like Klaus Fuchs.

These combined shocks, combined with rapidly growing Cold War tensions, raised serious concerns at the highest levels in Washington that the United States was being overtaken in the nuclear arms race by the Soviet Union.

Finally, on January 31, 1950,

President Harry Truman publicly declared his intention to develop a hydrogen bomb.

“It is part of my responsibility as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to ensure that our country can defend itself against any attacker. “I have therefore directed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to continue work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen bomb or super bomb.”

In this way, the United States began developing the hydrogen bomb as a top priority, and since the theoretical foundation was already in place, the hydrogen bomb tests were successfully completed twice on October 31 and November 1, 1952, much earlier than people expected. do.

This is the original story, but in this world, history changed a lot and the story progressed a little differently.

As history changed, there was no reason for the United States to rush to develop the hydrogen bomb.

The Soviet Union did not receive proper support from the United States from the end of 1943, when the expeditionary force began to intervene in history, and as a result, it was expelled from the Allies and the war ended with Eastern Europe untouched.

Moreover, all the spies were arrested, so they were unable to steal American technology, and in 1949, they invaded South Korea and were brutally punished and nuclear research was banned.

Of course, it appears that they are conducting research in secret, but it would take the Soviet Union 20 years to obtain nuclear weapons, not 10 years later than the United States had originally expected.

In other words, the Cold War had not begun, and the Soviet Union was no longer a threat to the United States.

No, there is no country on earth that can threaten the United States.

There is only one country, South Korea, but the United States and South Korea are countries that have no reason to fight with the United States, considering their geopolitical location and economic and security cooperation.

As things turned out like this, there was no reason for the U.S. government to rush to develop a hydrogen bomb by investing an astronomical amount of money.

As the world progressed this way, what was urgent became Korea.

“Mr. President, the United States must develop the hydrogen bomb as originally planned.”

“yes? No, Dr. Hong. What do you mean? “Why do we need to rush the development of the hydrogen bomb?”

When Dr. Hong Jeong-man, director of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, requested a meeting, Lee Kang-cheol could not help but feel absurd when the topic of the hydrogen bomb suddenly popped up.

Even in Lee Kang-cheol’s opinion, there seemed to be no reason for the United States to rush the development of a hydrogen bomb in the current situation.

In addition, hydrogen bomb development is being studied at the Atomic Energy Research Institute, which is responsible for all nuclear research in Korea.

There is no reason to tell the United States to rush to develop a hydrogen bomb.

“We could develop the hydrogen bomb on our own, but it would take a long time and require a lot of money.”

“Then shouldn’t we just take it slow?”

“That’s not it. “Now that the atomic bomb has been created, the development of the hydrogen bomb is inevitable and must be done.”

“yes? why?”

“Well, let me explain this from the beginning. Mr. President, what kind of bomb is a modern nuclear bomb?”

“Well, there will be atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.”

“Ding!”

“When, ding?”

“I’m saying you’re wrong. Almost all modern nuclear bombs are hydrogen bombs. This has been the case since the 1950s. Except for the first experiments in underdeveloped countries such as Pakistan or North Korea. Even North Korea successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb on January 6, 2016, its fourth nuclear test.”

“ah! is it so?”

To be honest, Lee Kang-cheol didn’t know much.

We only knew that a hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb as a catalyst to produce nuclear fusion, and that it is much more powerful than an atomic bomb.

“That’s right.”

“But why do you say that since the atomic bomb was invented, the development of the hydrogen bomb is inevitable and must be done?”

“That’s because hydrogen bombs are much more efficient and powerful, but they are clean bombs.”

“Clean bomb?”

Are there any bombs that are not as dirty as nuclear bombs?