Dear Comrade

Chapter 16. new relationship (3)

Chapter 16. new relationship (3)

“Government wake up! Less than half a century has passed since liberation! When is the time and condolences to the Emperor?”

“To send a condolence message to the war criminal Hirohito of the Pacific War, the mastermind of colonial rule, is to sell the country twice! Our ancestors weep in the grave!”

Jongno-gu, Seoul, is a place that represents Korea’s politics, so if anything happened, it was noisy due to the protests of university students.

University students tying their headbands tight and waving pickets marched in groups with flags with the names of their organizations in front of them.

In 1989, it was a time when university students’ protests could hardly have become part of everyday life and left a lot to be desired.

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No, rather, he seemed to be watching the protests of the university students with interest, saying, ‘You are good, do more’ with a half cheering expression.

The parade of university students made a long tail and passed through Jongno-gu, heading towards today’s final destination.

It was the headquarters of the Government-General of Korea located in front of Gyeongbokgung Palace.

“Oh my gosh… the young ones are bloody too. The road is blocked. Shall we go back, Senator?”

“Ah, no, wait for it to pass. Well, take a look. Do you want me to get out of the car after this happened?”

“No, Senator, the lights were flashing in their eyes, but they came down to get some kind of disaster…”

“This person, I am the person who risked my life to fight for the first time in order to get the people to do things like that. Even if you twist that chicken head… Algiers? Can this Lee Sam Park not be able to take a look because he is afraid of protests?”

To be honest, the driver was worried about Rep. Park, who was in the back seat, and Rep. Park Yi-sam, the leader of the United People’s Party, but he was well aware of his stubbornness, famous both inside and outside politics, so he did not stop him until the end.

The car door opened, and Park Yi-sam stood by the roadside and watched the procession of college students wielding placards that read, ‘Go away, ghosts of Japanese colonial rule!’

At that time, there was a person approaching him who was watching them like that.

“Rep. Park Yi-sam of the United People’s Party! Do you have a moment?”

“…..!! Aww, I’m surprised, who’s yours… ……..Ah, no matter what you ask, you’ll understand.”

“Haha, it came from the Goryeo Ilbo’s political department. Since our office is close by, we meet a lot of people in Yeouido unintentionally. Think of it as helping me and give me an article.”

What is unintentionally…

Park Yi-sam made a bitter face and muttered inwardly.

It was purely impulsive that he stopped the car exactly here, but does it make sense to run into it unintentionally?

At least, it was obvious that he had followed him out of the Yeouido Parliament building inconspicuously.

The action itself was absurd, but anyway, he often reads the Goryeo Ilbo, so he decided not to fall for it now.

As a professional politician, you should not miss the opportunity to sell your face.

So, Park Yi-sam replaced his dissatisfaction by swearing at the young Korea Ilbo reporter who looked at him with his eyes twinkling.

“……The Ministry of Security and Public Administration has to learn a little more about the skill of following the politicians of the opposition parties. Even your friends don’t follow you with this harshness. Anyway, I met you, so if you want to ask me anything, ask me.”

“thank you! First of all, what do you think about the anti-Japanese protests and the Japanese Emperor’s condolences? Since you are usually fluent in Japanese and have lived during the Japanese colonial period, you seem to have a lot of thoughts in your heart in many ways. Please give me only a few words of your opinion.”

A reporter from the Korea Ilbo, the bright young man who seemed to have just joined the company didn’t seem to have much of an age difference with the college students who participated in the protest.

Park Yi-sam, who pondered the young reporter’s question carefully, answered without hesitation.

“Ah, our people have suffered indescribable suffering from the Japanese for 36 years, isn’t that a natural feeling? Aside from diplomatic relations, I think it is an issue that young people who have nothing to do with politics can naturally raise.”

“……Hmm, that’s right, but Rep. Park is now the leader of the second opposition party, the United National Party, and ran in the last presidential election, but failed to unify with Yu Min-jung of the Korean Peace Party, didn’t he regretfully lose the election? As someone who once challenged the head of state, I think you have a unique insight into the frictions expected to arise in diplomatic relations with Japan…”

….. ‘Yoo Min-jung’?

Park Yi-sam doubted his ears at the words he had just heard, hardening his face and paying attention to the young reporter.

“Look at this, you’re Yuminjung! Yoo Min-joong is now the leader of the Korea Peace Party, the largest opposition party in the Korean National Assembly, the leader of the party! You should be called ‘Member’, Minjoong Yoo! Is Rep. Min-jung Yoo your friend? It’s like calling your neighbor next door!”

When Park Yi-sam showed a clear displeasure, the Korea Daily reporter paused and stuttered with a startling expression on his face, as if he did not know it.

Isn’t it a fact that every Korean knows about the long-standing relationship between Yu Min-jung and Park Yi-sam, the struggle against the military dictatorship in the process of democratization, and the rivalry in the political world?

“Ah, no… That’s me… I heard that Rep. Park Yi-sam hated Rep. Min-jung Yu… Oh, I mean, in the last presidential election over there, because of Rep. Min-jung Yoo and his factions, he couldn’t be president. Rep. Min-joong Yoo’s support base is from Honam, and Rep. Lee-sam Park from Yeongnam… So…”

“That is it, and this is this. Should a reporter from the Korea Ilbo, the first-class conservative Jeong Ron-ji in Korea, call a member of the National Assembly the name of such a careless person? You have to be polite to people…”

Park Yi-sam frowned and murmured, wondering if his mood could not be relieved even after giving him one attention.

And when Park Yi-sam’s reaction was completely different from his own, the bewildered reporter was bewildered, but soon calmed down and immediately changed the point of the conversation.

“Uhhh. Well, that’s the second question. Not long ago, North Korea, didn’t it make international noise that the North Korean leader had been replaced by a young friend named Kim Jeong-hwan, General Secretary? In the United States too, conservative Republican President George W. Bush took office a few months ago. In this unstable international situation, do you have anything to say about the security posture, including our military on the front, as one of the next big dragons?”

The reporter asked the question in a polite manner, but Park Yi-sam answered briefly and concisely in a tone of bluntness, whether he was still offended.

“Well, I just think that we, the Republic of Korea, should do what we always do and be fully prepared for it. Did anything major change when it was noisy about the transfer of power from Kim Il-sung to Kim Jong-il? After all, North Korea is North Korea and the Communist Party is the Communist Party…”

“However, after Kim Jong-il’s death and the inauguration of the new general secretary, did not the International Committee for Peaceful Reunification or the domestic left riot that something might have changed and that we should start the preparatory struggle for unification? Something could happen sooner or later, or something like that.”

“……So, what do you want to say in the end? Sooner or later, North Korea may send official secrets or even invade South Korea again, is it something like this?”

“No, something like that could happen…. If you look at the person named Jeong-hwan Kim, he’s a young man full of blood in his twenties, isn’t he? I also protest when I was a little bit young, so I know, I often make irrational and emotional decisions when I’m young. Just like the ‘ㅤㄲㅝ’ kids who gossip like that with a single condolence. So, wouldn’t that friend, Kim Jung-hwan, be able to commit an emotional act like an armed provocation or something sooner or later? Yes? What do you think, Senator?”

…………… Is this now or is it shit?

Park Yi-sam, who only now realized that this reporter was guiding him with the answer he wanted, let out a sigh, but there was no way for him to do anything because he had already agreed to the interview.

This friend is a friend who would have been very successful if he had been a novelist rather than a newspaper reporter.

“…You are not necessarily foolish to be young, and not everyone to be wise when you are old. Just do it here and stop. Alright?”

“…….All right. Anyway, to give my purely personal opinion, the younger brothers protesting over there are, in other words, children who don’t know anything yet. How big is the gap in national power between us and Japan… Would they care if we had 100 days of protests over there? There is a lot of rage right now that the Japanese people are going to have the same national power as the US…. Actually, Congressman Park doesn’t know better than I do.”

“………and it looks like that?”

“They aren’t kids, not me and you… they don’t even know how the world works. If you really want to defeat Japan and want to repay the government, you need to be calm and calm…. What is it, learn Japan and overcome Japan? do you want to pass Japanese companies conquered the world by selling the Sony Walkman, but we are sitting and selling fake teddy bears… It’s frustrating personally…”

“…………”

“Even though rivers and mountains change in 10 years, can we not always be entangled in the past and quarrel with Japan? The North Koreans in the upper neighbourhood are aiming for them…. Now, it’s realistic to forget what you’re going to forget and establish a new relationship with a future-oriented perspective. Isn’t that right… Senator?”

Park Yi-sam left the young reporter who was seriously worried about the country as if he was not speaking the language of the country, and got back into the car without saying a word.

Park Yi-sam, who slammed the door hard, ordered the knight in a deep voice, deep into the dialect of his hometown, Gyeongsang-do.

“People are gone. Branch!”

“……Yes, Senator.”

The driver, noticing that Park Yi-sam was very uncomfortable, drove the car without saying a word, and the car passed Sejong-daero and headed towards Gwanghwamun.

As the car turned and the Government-General of the Joseon Dynasty, standing behind Gwanghwamun, filled his eyes, Park Yi-sam chewed his lips and made a firm resolve in his heart.

If I go to the Blue House, I will inevitably destroy that abominable man first.

“How are you, Comrade Zhao Ziyang? Isn’t it worthwhile to visit Chosun earlier than expected?”

“I really think so. A light has risen in the eyes of the farmworker comrades. Comrade Deng Xiaoping seems to be looking into the eyes of the Chinese people living in the early special economic zone.”

At the compliment of an old man with horn-rimmed glasses, Jeonghwan smiled and responded with a ‘hospitality message’ in fluent Chinese.

“Isn’t this all the grace of a great nation? No matter how much the party had implemented policies that reduced government purchases and recognized the rights of independent farmers, this rapid recovery would not have occurred without the support of large countries such as fertilizers and tractors.”

“Heh heh heh… this is putting gold on our faces. In fact, before my first visit to Joseon, I was very worried about the general secretary, but now that I see it, I am a really good friend.”

‘Certainly, this person is different from other CCP officials.’

Junghwan muttered inwardly and once again gave his gaze to the expansive paddy field under the podium.

Although it was not an affluent sight reminiscent of the golden fields of autumn, the sweat of the farmers ready to create abundance could be seen from the podium where Jeonghwan and Zhao Ziyang were sitting.

Of course, it could be seen as a directing show that is common at such celebrations, but the eyes of today’s guest from China, General Secretary Zhao Ziyang of the Communist Party of China, are not so bright.

“If this continues, we will soon be able to achieve self-reliance without food aid from us. The father of Comrade General Secretary Kim Il-sung will be very proud to see it.”

“………haha. Thank you. It’s still a long way from being a great country.”

He said it was a compliment, but he couldn’t take it purely. Jeonghwan smiled bitterly and lowered his head again.

It was the idea of Hyun Young-sook, a propaganda and propaganda department, for a celebration event set up in a rice field in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, where Chinese tractors were dotted.

– Let me show you, Zhao Ziyang, how much our country is putting so much effort into reform and opening up.

– Good idea. It’s better than a fictitious day parade or a factory that barely runs on oil imported from the United States.

So, as a result of the idea, the Chinese visiting group who accompanied General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Jeong Hwan said, ‘Welcome to Joseon! Comrade General Secretary!’

Satisfied with the sight of increasing agricultural production, they slowly moved and got up to move to the next venue for today’s celebration.

At that time, after a moment of chaos, Zhao Ziyang lowered his voice to Jeonghwan and asked.

“……How is the internal takeover, Comrade General? I heard that Frunze’s comrades are in trouble … ”