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Chapter 16. new relationship (1)

Chapter 16. new relationship (1)

1988, a year of turbulence in the world, especially for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has come to an end, and 1989 is the beginning of the new year.

And on January 1, 1989, the New Year’s Address, which was relayed to all the people of the Republic through the Korean Central Broadcasting System, presented a little, or even a considerable surprise, different from the polite New Year’s speech.

– To all my dear comrades in the Republic. Last year was a year in which a truly tragic incident for this republic and a new turning point for our people occurred at the same time. Sending congratulatory congratulations to the soldiers of the Republic and the former People’s Army who arose over such an ordeal, General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan passed the passing year of 1988 and welcomed the coming 1989…

The real surprise was the main character of the New Year’s speech, and the New Year’s speech broadcast on all TV (black and white, color) of the Republic and far more radio than that was not the voice of President Kim Il-sung, but someone else’s.

It belonged to a young man named Kim Jeong-hwan, the new general secretary who took office just a few months ago, and there were several secrets behind this change.

A few days ago, on December 25th, 1988, Junghwan was sitting in our own office to meet some people.

The first of them was an old man in his sixties with a scholarly style wearing glasses.

“In capitalist countries, today is Christmas, but in republics, this is not the case. Isn’t that right, Professor Hwang, comrade?”

“Yeah, yes. Comrade General Secretary.”

“Haha, no need to be so nervous. Professor Hwang Jang-yeop’s comrade is technically my father-in-law, the son-in-law of President Kim Il-sung’s nephew. So, make it easy for me.”

Of course, while saying that, Jeonghwan’s eyes were looking coldly at the middle-aged, middle-aged man sitting in front of him.

‘I told you to be comfortable with me, but if you treat me really comfortably, you won’t be able to die nicely.’

“Come to think of it, Hwang Jang-yeop’s comrade once served as the president of Kim Dae-dae. I also came from Kim University, and I learned a lot there.”

“Ah, yes, yes. Even after I went to the party, I heard from my professors and comrades that the general secretary often showed a really smart and genius aspect in his business class, which was worthy of being a leader of the nation!”

‘Thank you too. Well, it’s just as I’ve seen and heard before reincarnation, but when I actually met him, should I say it’s worse than rumors…’

Seeing the middle-aged man desperately shouting, Jeonghwan thought so to himself and smiled bitterly.

In the first place, before he was reincarnated in this body, the ‘real’ person named Kim Jung-hwan had good grades, but seemed to be quite quiet and disliked to stand out, so there was very little chance that those words were true.

Only the old man in front of Junghwan is ready to say anything in order to survive.

‘For the founder of the famous Juche idea, he doesn’t seem to have any sense of authority… Actually, after a few years, he escaped from North Korea in a power struggle, so it might be as expected.’

The middle old man who took off the glasses in front of him was Hwang Jang-yup, an old man famous as the founder of the Juche idea.

Although he is famous as the president of Kim Il-sung University, former deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, and chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, what made his name widely known not only in North Korea but also in the South is that he founded the Juche ideology, which is comparable to the religion of North Korea. was the point.

Hwang Jang-yeop, a professor at Kim Il-sung University, who was closer to a scholar than a party official, introduced the Juche idea to the world for the first time in 1972 by publishing an article in the Mainichi Shimbun in Japan titled ‘Juche Idea and the internal and external policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea’.

And two years later, in 1974, the Juche ideology, officially proclaimed as ‘Kim Il-sungism’ by Kim Jong-il (now vanished by the dew of death sentences), soon occupied the same position as the state religion of North Korea.

Of course, the reality was nothing more than a pseudo-religion that mixed the old-fashioned Japanese imperial-style mentalism, guerilla firstism, the leadership principle of Nazi Germany, and materialism, but that was not important to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in the first place.

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Naturally, they only needed a plausible theoretical framework to justify their monogamous cult and hereditary dictatorship.

Even 0.001% of the North Korean people who will learn the Juche ideology (write as and read as brainwashing) really understand and follow the Juche ideology, so it did not matter whether the Juche ideology made sense or not.

And above all, to Junghwan now, it didn’t seem that important to Hwang Jang-yup himself.

“Hmm, I’m glad that my professor comrades think that my evaluation is so good. Anyway, can you see why I called Comrade Hwang here today?”

“I heard that a new law needs to be overhauled. Comrade General Secretary!”

Hwang Jang-yeop, who was completely frozen, groaned until the end of his words and shouted desperately.

True to the name of Jeong Hwan as a professor comrade, the current person was released from all his previous positions as secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and standing chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly starting from the last party congress, and in fact, he was treated very erratically within the party.

After the last event that drove out Kim Jong-il, Hwang Jang-yup was one of the unnamed people at the 7th Labor Party Congress.

The fact that his name was not called at the party congress, which could be said to be a restructuring of power relations and positions, meant that the person was in a state of deactivation of virtually all positions.

Usually, in the transition period of power, people in this situation ended up in a purge (this was especially true in North Korea), but for about two months after the party congress, there was no news, positive or negative, so Hwang Jang-yup expressed it in words. I was engulfed in embarrassment and anxiety.

In the midst of such anxiety and irritability, Jeong-hwan, who rose to the center of new power from a side branch that even the party bureaucrats rarely heard of in the party, suddenly called him. It was a very natural situation to be scared and not know what to do with Junghwan.

Seeing Jang-Yeop Hwang, who was so afraid that sweat would form on his eyeglasses, for fear that the blade of the purge would fall on him, Jung-Hwan had an intuition that things would be easily solved.

‘This guy is a typical weak intellectual, he has a good brain, but his political sensibility and guts are just below the level. It will be possible to write ‘the reason the sky is red’ in a sensible thesis as long as there is adequate wind.’

“As a brain worker like a professor’s companion would have already guessed, I am preparing to introduce a market economy to this republic.”

“Cha, what a wonderful decision, Comrade General Secretary.”

“But, apparently, the republic has followed Comrade Marx’s communism for decades, and if we declare that we will implement capitalism without any preparation, there will be a lot of backlash and errors in many ways. Above all, the president is alive and well, but it is seemingly impossible to abandon the Juche ideology based on Marxism and run to capitalism.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“I heard that Professor Hwang’s comrade is a doctor of philosophy. Therefore, we select appropriate personnel to create a groupa (Russian expression of group), and refer to the laws and ideological systems of Britain and the United States to develop the guiding ideology so that we can seamlessly transition to a market economy system according to the current situation of the republic.. .

“Ah, I see, I will do my best, Comrade General!”

“…………”

Seeing Hwang Jang-yeop saying that he would abolish the Juche idea, which can be said to be his lifelong achievement, so simply, Jeong-hwan shook his head, saying that he was a great yangban.

He knows that the Juche idea is absurd nonsense, but still, as Jung-hwan, who once walked the path of a scholar as a researcher, could not help but feel admiration and ridicule at the same time at Hwang Jang-yup, who dismissed his academic achievements so lightly.

But in any case, it was no longer necessary to be conscious of each other’s unnecessary rituals.

“It’s good with words. The reason why I dared to call comrade Hwang Jang-yeop for a job that could have been done by calling another party member was, as you know well, that comrade Hwang was the founder of the Juche idea.”

“Oh, I know. Comrade General Secretary.”

“It’s a story between us, but the Juche idea is a scam. It was created by Abadi with Comrade Hwang Jang-yeop in order to make his position absolute and suppress the reactionaries in the party. At that time there were still a few recoils left, so it needed to be, but not now. All of those recoils went to the other world after being hit with peas before.”

“……………Yes.”

“Then we don’t have to live with cumbersome things hanging on our walls anymore. Of course, I will not openly deny the Juche idea, but I will make it slowly forgotten within the republic. Or cover it up with something else, is there no one more suitable for such a task than the founder of the Juche idea himself? He must close the door he opens.”

“……This, I understand.”

Hwang Jang-yeop bowed his head deeply again and bowed his head.

The young general secretary, who now has a new power, is demanding that the ‘truth’ be rewritten to fit his time.

As Kim Il-sung once did.

But it didn’t matter to Hwang Jang-yeop.

Just because he entrusted himself with the task of revising the new ideology that will lead the republic in the future is enough guarantee for his next position.

In other words, he saved one life.

As Hwang Jang-yeop came out in a posture of complete submission, Jeong-hwan showed a faint smile for the first time he entered the secretary’s office.

“I will entrust the establishment of the theory of the philosophy of law, which will be the basis for the enactment of laws necessary for a market economy system, including the commercial law and company law, to Professor Hwang’s comrade groupa. If necessary, you can even touch the party rules or the party constitution. But the most important thing is……”

“…………?”

“…Any private enterprise to be established in the future, no law enforcement department, shall not infringe on or challenge the authority of the party and of the general secretary. Legally, we have to make sure that the only supreme power of this republic is still the Workers’ Party of Korea and its head. I’m sure you’ll understand what I mean.”

“Oh, I know! I will do my best and do it with all my heart, Comrade General Secretary!”

As Hwang Jang-yeop left with a much brighter expression than when he came in, shouting an oath of allegiance loudly, Jeong-hwan immediately instructed the secretary of the clerk’s office to let in a new person, a second guest.

This second guest was a little different from Hwang Jang-yup.

Junghwan muttered to himself that he is not so easy-going, nor should he be vigilant.

Then a second guest came in.

“Comrade General Secretary, thank you for calling.”

“Welcome, Comrade Kim Young-nam, have you been through a lot?”

As the opponent entered, he bowed deeply to Jeong-hwan and showed the best courtesy, but strangely, he didn’t look so sublime unlike the ship’s passenger, Hwang Jang-yeop.

Jeong-hwan also greeted Kim Yong-nam, chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly Standing Committee and the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, with his own courtesy, unlike his dealings with Hwang Jang-yop.

“Heh heh, no, I’m just glad that you’re welcoming an old man who’s all old and useless.”

“No, can I neglect Comrade Kim Young-nam, who has long served Chief Abadi and General Kim Jong-il? I’m here today because I need the power of comrade Kim Young-nam.”

Jeonghwan first threw rice cakes and reacted, but Kim Young-nam’s expression remained almost unchanged, maintaining a smiling face.

Jeonghwan thought in his heart that he was a poker face like a man who served as the foreign minister for more than 10 years before Kim Yong-geon and (though nominally) the head of state in North Korea.

“After the last party convention, I passed the duties to the younger comrades and thought about going to a hot spring that was good for my body and recuperating, but the general secretary called me, so I will have to add at least my best efforts. What difficulties did you have that led you to call this Kim Young-nam?”

“I know that your comrade is the Republic’s best worker in the field of diplomacy. There is one country that needs to improve relations for the future of this republic, and I need the experience and knowledge of my comrades to do that .”