Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 90



Only Krnovel

#90. Who’s going to stop that?

Prime Minister Attlee thought for a moment, then nodded and opened his mouth.

It might be a bit annoying, but Britain had nothing to lose.

Anyway, both of them will now be someone else’s land.

“It’s a bit of a hassle, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing for Britain.”

“It’s not that bad. The goal is to eliminate in advance the factors that will cause Britain to be criticized for a long time. At least in relation to the Rohingya, you were being too complacent. In short, they did not think at all about the feelings of those who suffered.”

“No, not that much?”

“In the first place, minions are more hated than vicious masters.”

“What a adventure! Your words are a bit harsh. “You mean vicious?”

“Isn’t it true? “Isn’t colonialism ultimately about exploiting the people of another country for one’s own benefit?”

“…”

Lee Kang-cheol criticized him openly, but Prime Minister Attlee had nothing to say.

It is an obvious fact that Britain created and exploited the most colonies in the world.

“Well, I don’t mean to criticize what happened in the past. If we’re going to fix it, let’s do it right. Wouldn’t it be wise for Britain to go through a little trouble and avoid being criticized later?”

“You said that because you said that. But why does South Korea pay so much attention to Burma? “Don’t even say that you do it because you feel sorry for the Burmese people.”

“Well, I think he would be a good neighbor candidate.”

“Good neighbor candidate?”

“As you know, Japan is the enemy of the Republic of Korea, and frankly, we do not have a very good relationship with China, which is in a civil war. “For countries that are originally adjacent to each other, there is no case in which relations are good with each other, right?”

“That’s right.”

“So, we are just trying to make friends with countries that are reasonably far away so that there is no overlap of interests, and that are not too far away but have similar sentiments. Do you know anything? “Maybe we can help each other later?”

“Hmm…”

Prime Minister Attlee looked at Lee Kang-cheol with a suspicious expression.

Because it seemed like he had some kind of plan.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“it’s nothing.”

“Anyway, I would like to strengthen our relationship with the new Burma in advance in many ways. Is that okay?”

“We don’t care. I decided to let go anyway. “I’ll tell you, so take it easy.”

“ha ha ha! Thank you. “Let’s see each other often from now on, right?”

“Well, that’s right.”

Although it was a bit daunting, it was a welcome development for Britain to establish friendly relations with Korea, a rising power in Asia.

Moreover, although I could not find out exactly, Korea was a country with many questions.

This was a story that kept coming from high-ranking British military officers on the Pacific theater.

At some point, as the damage to the U.S. military was drastically reduced, they often acted as if they knew the whereabouts of the Japanese military. However, they did not know the meaning of the story, so they inquired about it, but they kept their mouths shut and did not tell them.

Still, I somehow came to one conclusion.

korea.

The name of the country that suddenly emerged and became independent from Japanese colonial rule was at the center.

Since then, Britain has tried every possible way to find out about Korea, but ultimately failed.

No matter how much we dug into the high-ranking generals of the U.S. military, nothing came of it.

It was just that they had incredibly accurate information about the battlefield, but no one knew how.

Churchill even went out of his way to ask Roosevelt directly, but Roosevelt is said to have kept his mouth shut like a clam whenever the word Korea was mentioned, and he later said that he couldn’t ask any more questions because of his backlash.

In any case, the Republic of Korea had firmly established itself as an emerging Asian power by defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army and even taking over the territory of Manchukuo, so it could no longer be treated carelessly.

No, it is said that the high blood pressure medication that is currently being imported from the UK and that Attlee himself is taking was actually developed in Korea, so it is impossible to ignore it.

And since Burma will soon leave British hands, it would not be a bad idea to dispose of it in a friendly manner toward the Republic of Korea.

“So did it become a Burma problem?”

“Yes, thank you for the kindness of England. “I’ll repay you later.”

“ha ha ha! Our British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea will be appointed soon, so please be nice to him. Then I’ll consider it as repayment.”

“ah! “I guess an ambassador has been appointed to come to our country?”

“Yes, you can look forward to it. “It’s bigger than you think.”

“huh? “Who are you?”

Lee Kang-cheol asked, feeling anxious.

It felt cheap.

“It’s not fun if I tell you this in advance…”

“You will find out anyway, so what are you doing? “What kind of person are you to set the tone like this?”

“Winston Churchill!”

“Churchill?”

“what? Prime Minister Churchill? “Are you sure you mean Churchill?”

“Then who is Churchill?”

“Nonsense!”

“Huh! “This is ridiculous, Winston. Has that guy gone senile?”

“…”

Not only Lee Kang-cheol but even Roosevelt opened his mouth in bewilderment.

“Why doesn’t it make sense?”

“No, you are the former Prime Minister of England, right?”

“Is there a law prohibiting former prime ministers from speaking?”

“…”

There wasn’t.

In general, under a parliamentary cabinet system, the prime minister or those called prime ministers were only the representatives of the ruling party and the head of the cabinet, so there were almost no customary restrictions after leaving office, like presidents in countries with a presidential system.

It is none of my business to know what he does while acting as Prime Minister.

But it’s still Churchill.

That Winston Churchill!

I guess this was a bit harsh.

“Anyway, right? “This doesn’t seem right, does it?”

“Is it because you feel burdened?”

“Prime Minister Attlee, would you like President Roosevelt to come to the UK as ambassador after he leaves office?”

“We are the prime minister?”

“Oh, really! What’s really going on? “Why did a giant among giants like former Prime Minister Churchill come to be our country’s ambassador?”

“Look for yourself and ask.”

“yes?”

“I ask you to ask directly when you receive your credentials. “I’m not sending that friend because I want to.”

“then?”

“I’m appointing an ambassador for your country, and I don’t know where I heard them, but they suddenly barge in and tell me to give them everything. What should I do?”

“Huh…”

“Fuhahaha! It’s like Winston! “Winston-like!”

Lee Kang-cheol was at a loss for words, and Roosevelt was laughing, wondering what was so funny.

“Why on earth is this like that? Even a pot of honey was buried in our country?”

“I do not know either. I was also shocked and asked him why, and he said he was just going because he thought it would be fun.”

“This is crazy… “Why don’t you try to stop me?”

“President Lee, as you said earlier, ‘that Churchill.’ Even though our Labor Party won the election and I became prime minister, if ‘that Churchill’ wants to be ambassador to the Republic of Korea, I do it. “Who’s going to stop that?”

“…”

As Attlee said, ‘that Churchill’.

He can do the lines if he wants to.

Unless you want to go to the Soviet Union as an ambassador.

In the end, Lee Kang-cheol had no choice but to accept it.

“No, something like this…”

“ha ha ha! Anyway, thank you in advance. So the Burma thing is done, what else?”

“Now it is my turn to speak. “This is a bit complicated.”

“I feel scared even before I hear it. Is there a problem?”

“It is a matter of building an independent Jewish state.”

“yes?”

“Prime Minister Attlee, the Jews are building settlements in Palestine and planning independence, right?”

“Is that so? “What do you mean?”

“Let’s stop that first.”

“yes? No, why are you doing that? “How are we supposed to take care of that?”

“No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for a Jewish nation to be built in an area where Arabs live. “This is definitely going to be a big problem.”

“What if you say that now? Why are you doing this all of a sudden? wait? “Maybe this too?”

Prime Minister Attlee, who was devastated, turned his gaze towards Lee Kang-cheol.

Apparently, Lee Kang-cheol won the award.

Recently, wherever Roosevelt made a sudden move, it was England that thought that Korea was there.

However, Lee Kang-cheol waved his hand and strongly denied it.

“Whoa! Prime Minister Attlee! do not misunderstand? This is something I didn’t know about. Are you saying that we, the Republic of Korea, absolutely do not want to get involved in the troublesome issues of Europe or the Middle East? Why do we get involved, especially in Jewish matters?”

“Is that true?”

“Are you saying it’s true? President Roosevelt! “Please say something!”

“The general is right. “Don’t catch the wrong person.”

In fact, this was half right and half wrong.

This is because Lee Kang-cheol told Roosevelt about the future and showed Roosevelt that the Middle East would become an eternal powder keg due to Israel.

In the end, after much deliberation, Roosevelt decided to eliminate the spark of the future.

“Then why on earth…”

“Prime Minister Attlee, the colonial era is coming to an end. This is the trend, the trend. In the meantime, does it make sense to build Jewish settlements on land taken from Arabs? And in a neighborhood that is religiously at odds with each other? “This is the same as planting land mines for the future in the Middle East in order to get rid of the troublesome work in front of us right now.”

“No, then what are you going to do now that you’ve come?”

“Not in the Middle East anyway.”

“Then where will it be?”

“British Uganda, Madagascar, and Cyprus, which were mentioned earlier… “Anyway, let’s think about it.”

“Ha, this is really driving me crazy.”

“…”

The establishment of Jewish settlements or independent states in Europe began in the 1890s.

At the time, the famous Dreyfus incident caused European Jews to fear that no matter how hard they tried, they could not become legitimate members of society and that they could become targets of persecution at any time.

Therefore, activities to build an independent state in Palestine using their influence spread throughout each country became active. At that time, the first place to receive the proposal was British Uganda, and Theodor Herzl, the head of the Zionist World Congress (ZO) at the time, also became active. I even reviewed it positively.

However, this Uganda-Israel proposal was quickly rejected after Herzl’s sudden death.

This is because the only place they can live is Palestine, where their ancestors lived.

However, at the time, the area of ​​Palestine was clearly a part of Syria ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and there was nothing they could do because it was not a land they could access.

However, when the Ottoman Empire entered World War I as an ally, they also had an opportunity.

Arthur Balfour, Foreign Minister of Britain, a member of the negotiating party, issued the ‘Balfour Declaration’ that if Britain won the war and took Palestine, it would be given to the Jews.

The justification was to unite Jews from all over the country, but in fact, it was a fraudulent contract from Britain.

The Arabs were also encouraged to oppose the Ottomans by writing the ‘McMahon-Hussein Memorandum’, and among these, Syria, which included Palestine, became ambiguous.

He went one step further by secretly signing the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France and Russia, and went so far as to sign a secret agreement whereby France and Yeongguk would directly rule over the entire Syrian region.

This made it impossible for the Balfour Declaration to be properly observed.

Then, around the time World War II broke out, all kinds of stories started pouring out again.

Churchill brought up Uganda again, and even Roosevelt got involved and proposed a plan to establish a settlement in Alaska.

Among them, the highlight is Japan.

Suddenly, Japan also established a plan to immigrate Jews to Manchuria, called the ‘Blowfish Plan’, with the goal of securing competent human resources in Manchukuo.

Of course, with the outbreak of World War II, this became something that had never happened before.

Anyway, you want to stop the establishment of a Jewish nation, which was being organized in such a complicated situation?

For Prime Minister Attlee, this is something that cannot help but be irritating and absurd.