Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 34



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#34. The devil’s edit.

July 24, 1944, 7:10 a.m. Saipan time.

Wooooow!

A twin-engined aircraft of gray-black light appeared in the western sky with a cheerful sound of propellers.

– Saipan Airfield! Saipan Airfield! This is the first aircraft of the Republic of Korea Air Force!

“This is the US Navy Saipan Forward Base! “Is this an aircraft approaching from the west?”

– you’re right. I understand that we have received word from Washington that we are going.

“I received a call from Washington. “The runway is empty, so please land.”

– All right.

Colonel Smith of the U.S. Navy, who was watching the controller’s communication, shook his head and opened his mouth.

“Huh! The Republic of Korea Air Force? “Is there really such a thing?”

“First of all, you actually flew, right?”

Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, who was next to me, watched through binoculars a transport plane lowering its landing gear and attempting to land, and received a comment.

“Aren’t they crazy? “You’re flying in a transport plane over a place full of Japanese fighter jets?”

“I wish it was successful. But the engine sound is quite unique, isn’t it?”

“It’s definitely cheerful. “An airplane of that size should be much louder.”

“It’s not lighthearted. “This is huge.”

“You’ll see later.”

Eventually, the first Republic of Korea Air Force aircraft carrying Lee Kang-cheol landed safely and stopped the engine.

“uh?”

“what’s the matter?”

“Look at that airplane propeller! “It has a strange shape and has six lobes!”

“what? What are you talking about?”

Colonel Smith, who turned his gaze toward Republic of Korea Air Force Unit 1 after hearing Lieutenant Colonel Anderson’s words, also widened his eyes.

“Is it true? “What on earth is that?”

“Go ahead and take a look. “Shouldn’t we welcome you too?”

“Let’s go”

Weeeeeee!

When the engine stopped, the rear lamp opened and Lee Kang-cheol and his group walked out.

“Oh oh! “This is Saipan.”

“It’s not as hot as I thought.”

Lee Kang-cheol and his group, wearing short-sleeved army summer uniforms, looked around while feeling the weather in Saipan, which was not as hot as expected.

“They’re coming in droves.”

When I looked at the direction Lieutenant Colonel Hong Jin-taek was pointing to, I saw trucks and trucks rushing towards me.

“I see. Let’s see how welcoming they are.”

Sigh!

The straw truck stopped and a group of officers approached Lee Kang-cheol and his group and stood in front of Lee Kang-cheol, who was wearing a four-star badge.

“Is this true, General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces?”

“you’re right. “I am General Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea.”

chuck!

Colonel Smith immediately saluted and opened his mouth.

“You have come safely through a dangerous and long journey. “This is Colonel Smith, Isely Field station commander.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“I received instructions from my superiors to provide the commander with the highest level of courtesy and convenience, but since we have only recently taken over, it is lacking in many ways. Still, I will take you there for now.”

“Thank you. “Has our plane arrived?”

“The B-29 has been on standby for two days.”

“Thank goodness. So when can we leave?”

“You can leave at any time, but wouldn’t it be better to get some rest? You have to go a very long way. “Please stay overnight.”

“Thank you, but we don’t have much time. “I will sleep in Hawaii.”

Even from Saipan, you have to travel a whopping 13,000 km to reach Washington, where the White House is located.

There was no need to shiver from the cold as the B-29 was the first US military aircraft equipped with a pressurized compartment, but the cruising speed was not fast, so it would take quite a while, so we had to hurry.

“Then we will leave in two hours.”

“Thank you. Oh, and this transport and our pilots will be waiting here. Please make sure that no one approaches you or takes pictures. And I hope that our pilots can rest comfortably.”

“You mean the photo too?”

“Yes, you can’t even take pictures. “If the photo is ever leaked, I will complain to the president of your country.”

“I will never let you take pictures!”

Two hours later, 9 a.m.

A silver B-29 took off to the east.

July 27, 1944, 3 p.m. Washington time.

The President’s Office at the White House.

“Guests have arrived.”

“I’ll take you there quickly”

After a while, Lee Kang-cheol and Hong Jin-taek, wearing army uniforms, came inside.

“welcome. Welcome to the United States. “I am Roosevelt, President of the United States.”

“Thank you for your welcome. “This is Lee Kang-cheol, Marshal of the Republic of Korea and Commander-in-Chief of the ROK Armed Forces.”

Lee Kang-cheol and Roosevelt shook hands firmly.

“This is Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Staff of our United States Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.”

“Nice to meet you, Admiral King. “I’ve heard a lot about it.”

“Are you talking about me?”

“Ah yes. “I heard something.”

“What did you hear?”

“…”

As is well known, his temperament was not normal.

Even though he was introduced as the enemy of the Republic of Korea, I saw him questioning what he was told at first meeting.

“As far as I know, all my subordinates and all my superiors dislike me. “If only it weren’t for my skills…”

“Puhahahaha! “Exactly!”

Roosevelt, who was listening from the side, burst into laughter, and surprisingly, Admiral King was not offended and smiled slightly.

Lee Kang-cheol saw King’s smile, which is hard to see, for the first time.

“This is Lieutenant Colonel Hong Jin-taek, a member of the staff of our General Staff.”

“It is an honor to meet you, President Roosevelt and the Admiral.”

After greetings and introductions, the four people sat down.

“Admiral King, along with Admiral Nimitz, is one of the very few people who knows of the existence of General Lee and the Republic of Korea. “You can speak comfortably.”

“thank you. “I met Admiral Nimitz on the way.”

“ha ha ha! “I heard the story.”

At Hawaii, a stopover, Admiral Nimitz truly welcomed Kang-cheol Lee, and they talked a lot while staying overnight.

“Yes, we have many questions about your country. Where did you come from, how do you know so much about the wars taking place around the world, and why are you so wary of Stalin? Most curious of all, how on earth did they know that a storm was coming at the Mulberry Artificial Port in Normandy? “That’s God’s domain?”

“Hmm, I thought you would be very curious.”

“That’s right. “She was so curious that when I told her that General Lee was coming, she even had trouble sleeping.”

“Before I tell you about us, there is something I want to promise you.”

“Say anything. “I will make any promise I can keep.”

“There is only one promise. “What I am saying and showing here right now is that only you two should know.”

“How long?”

“forever! “You must take this secret with you to your grave.”

“Is it not possible for even those closest to me?”

“Only you two should know. “If you don’t make this promise, I won’t say anything.”

“Hmm…”

Roosevelt looked at Admiral King and saw him nodding.

It meant making a promise.

“I promise.”

“Can the President swear to the God he believes in?”

“I swear.”

“What about Admiral King?”

“I swear too.”

“great. I believe it. Colonel Hong!”

“Yes, Commander.”

“Take out your laptop and turn it on.”

“yes”

Hong Jin-taek took out a laptop from his briefcase, opened it, and pressed the boot switch.

“Oooh!”

“What the hell is this…”

As the screen of the thin laptop brightened, Roosevelt and Admiral King couldn’t help but widen their eyes in surprise.

Although they did not know much about technology, they immediately realized that this object could never have been produced in this era.

“You said it was God’s domain, right? In a way, that’s true. “We are people from the future of 2027, about 70 years from now.”

“…”

“…”

The two people were so shocked that they couldn’t even open their mouths, but Lee Kang-cheol left them alone and quietly continued his explanation.

“It all begins with an experiment at a research institute in Korea. So, January 2027…”

Kang-cheol Lee gave a rough explanation, starting with the creation of a one-way wormhole leading to the past in an experiment and the process of getting here.

“…”

“…”

After Lee Kang-cheol finished his explanation, a heavy silence fell for a while.

It’s hard to believe, but something happened that I had no choice but to believe.

After a while, Roosevelt spoke.

“What happens to this war?”

“Let me show you roughly the future for a moment. Colonel Hong!”

“yes”

Hong Jin-taek clicked on a single file in succession on the desktop.

“Now you know why I asked you two for such a heavy promise.”

The video started playing.

This is a 10-minute video made by editing the film of the time, covering the history from the present to 2027.

Hitler committed suicide and Japan surrendered with the atomic bomb.

That’s how the Cold War began, the Korean War broke out, and the Vietnam War broke out.

As the seemingly eternal Cold War ended with the emergence of Gorby and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China emerged as the number one enemy of the free world.

And the United States and China go to war again over Taiwan, but the United States is overwhelmed despite its alliance with major allies such as Korea.

“This is it. When we came over here, the war with China broke out, and our communication ended with the U.S. Navy’s entire Pacific Fleet being destroyed and our Korean Peninsula once again becoming a sea of ​​fire.”

“No way! “China is growing that much?”

“After all, neither the Soviets nor the Chinese were to be trusted!”

Roosevelt and Admiral King were shocked and angry.

This video is true.

From the moment the Manhattan Project, the most secret of all secrets, came out, it was impossible not to believe it.

But this video wasn’t 100% true.

This is because it is a video that slightly twists the future in the expeditionary force, adds some spice, and adds CG that people of this era will never recognize.

The clever editing began little by little, but began in earnest with the Korean War.

In the Korean War, the United States inevitably collapsed before the 1 million-strong Chinese army, which received weapons support from the Soviet Union, but barely managed to protect South Korea by fighting and shedding blood together with the Korean army.

More than 200,000 American soldiers were killed in action, and Korean soldiers made great sacrifices, with more than 1.5 million killed.

Korea and the United States, who have become such a strong blood alliance, will continue to fight together to protect liberal democracy around the world.

In Vietnam, the Korean military dispatched five divisions and suffered as many casualties as the U.S. military, and later shed blood together in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is truly a blood oath.

It was even more impressive because they even included a video of KATUSA soldiers and edited it to make it look like the Korean military was mixed up with the US military.

And the atrocities of the Soviet Union were also exaggerated.

Even after the end of the Cold War, they could not give up their ambitions and invaded Chechnya and Ukraine and committed massacres. The number of Ukrainian citizens massacred was said to have exceeded hundreds of thousands.

But compared to China, this was a bummer.

The United States, which established diplomatic relations with China to keep the Soviet Union in check during the Cold War, suffered a setback after China grew.

China, which grew by stealing American technology, eventually came to have an economic and military power that surpassed that of the United States thanks to the power derived from its population of 1.4 billion.

The United States fell to second place.

The devil’s editing also touched on Japan, but at least Japan was portrayed in a good way.

Because they simply used their economic power to buy the United States and move up to an almost equal position.

However, in the eyes of the two, this too would have been a betrayal.

“…”

“…”

When the video ended, the silence became longer this time.

Eventually, the silence ended.

Roosevelt opened his mouth with much warmer eyes.

“I was rude to the leader of the clan right in front of me.”

The effect of the video seemed to work much better than expected.