Dear Comrade

Respected Comrade Leader Episode 348

A story that starts with a father and ends with a father.

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At the end of every step I took, I felt the grass that had grown lush on the mountain crumple.

And before the crumpled grass could find its own shape, the owner of the foot took the next step and strode along the well-maintained mountain path.

He was even humming a faint hum, and it was impossible not to be surprised to see his usual appearance described by the public in the media, no, even his aides and even his wife, who had been by his side for the rest of his life.

As such, today was a special day for him, and the person in question walking this mountain road lightly was the former general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and former supreme leader of the Korean People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jeong-hwan.

“Hmmmm, hmm~ Ah, here you are.”

Today’s destination was located in the middle of a fairly high mountain, but the spring breeze of Chungcheongnam-do was cool and the sky was clear, so Jeonghwan was able to reach the destination without much trouble.

While enjoying the mountain breeze, he hastened his steps with a light footstep that is rare these days.

Not even the bodyguards (now restlessly waiting for him at the foot of the mountain), Junghwan himself walked into the convenience store and picked up the items, but the fact that the part-timer didn’t recognize him at all made him feel good once again.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Because no one can imagine.

“It was a little difficult to get rid of the reporters.”

When he actually arrived at his destination, he carefully put down the plastic bag, but after turning his head once more to make sure that no one was around, he muttered to himself.

Today’s visit to Korea, to be exact, somewhere in Chungcheong Province, was to solve Junghwan’s purely private affairs.

As most newspapers and politicians guess, it is not to send any message to the South Korean administration, nor to empower General Secretary Hyun Young-sook (who is struggling to erase the last traces of the Kim family in the North), but purely for Jeong-hwan himself. schedule for.

Even her lifelong companion, Hye-rim Yoo, did not know the real purpose of this visit, and so was Jeong-hwan’s only daughter, Hye-in. (No, maybe Yoo Hye-in has something to do with it?)

However, with that or not, the secret entry that Junghwan had carefully prepared for failed in the planning stage.

Even before his departure from the United States, reporters at home and abroad, who had just sniffed, asked, ‘What is the schedule and intentions of Kim’s first visit to Korea as a civilian?’ From the arrival hall at Incheon International Airport, Junghwan had no choice but to face an unwelcome flash baptism (after a long time) because the same article was spread.

After all, after changing cars in the middle and deliberately leaving most of the bodyguards in Seoul, he was able to get out of the public eye and arrive here alone.

“It’s been a while, no, it’s been a while… … Does that mean something? Anyway… … .”

Jeonghwan tilted his head as he poured a bottle of Baekhwa Restoration into the paper cup he took out of the plastic bag.

In the first place, people who are listening to him now would not even know who he was, but he thought that the expression, “It’s been a long time,” was not appropriate.

But what about anything?

Didn’t you know well before you came that this time today and what you are going to do from now on is a completely self-satisfying act.

Jeonghwan, who had so hardened his heart, opened his mouth as he sprinkled a white flower suit from a paper cup on the grave in front of him.

“… … There are so many things I want to tell you in the meantime. First, let’s start with my daughter. I want to complain to other people that my daughter is in trouble, so I feel like I am slowly becoming a real father. haha.”

* * *

“… … The whole of America, or the whole world, is already grappling with this incredible outcome and its repercussions. The CDC seems to be worried about whether the corona epidemic, which has barely calmed down after the president-elect, who has often been spreading vaccine conspiracy theories, has entered the White House… … .”

The ‘thing’ in question was about three months ago, when the US and the world were still in shock due to the shocking results of the 2020 presidential election.

On TV, in the current situation where the outbreak of the coronavirus has not yet completely subsided, it was giving a dark prospect for the catastrophe that would befall the United States if a human being who had no knowledge of public health or even basic common sense of its importance, became the supreme commander.

To that extent, a nuclear bomb called ‘US President Donald Trump’ literally stirred up the entire United States, but its impact was many times greater than elsewhere, especially on the Georgetown University campus, which is treated as a training camp for future American political leaders.

In fact, right after the election was announced in November of last year, the atmosphere on campus was truly depressing, as if the Great Depression of the 1920s had returned for the first time in a century.

However, the impact came a little differently to Kim Jeong-hwan, a professor at Georgetown University, who was probably the only one on campus who predicted Trump’s election. … .

“Oh, honey, did you leave work early today?”

To her husband, who returned from school earlier that day, Hye-rim Yoo, like any housewife, bowed her head out of the kitchen and welcomed her home.

They currently live in a three-story mansion near Washington.

It was a house that was purchased with government funds as a courtesy to the former general secretary, but Jeonghwan, who did not want to attract unnecessary public attention due to the size of the swimming pool and garden, expressed his displeasure, but there was also a security problem, and above all, ‘the retired general secretary is a poor father. If we let them live in the same place, our party will be stoned by the people,’ he eventually accepted Kim Yong-geon’s plea.

Still, both Junghwan and Yoo Hyerim had a hard time adjusting to oily American food, so they tended to cook by themselves.

“Yeah, it will probably be that way in the future. I entrusted all the first scoring of the test papers to the assistants.”

“Ah, that student named Samantha? After all, the United States is different from the republic, so even undergraduates see a teaching assistant, right?”

“I am an undergraduate now. But it won’t be the end of this year’s semester. Whoops.”

Surprised (about Donald Trump’s election) and surrounded by frightened and frenzied classmates (about graduation getting farther away due to F), Yoo Hye-rim turned her head to Jeong-hwan, who shed a gloomy smile as she recalled Samantha’s white-washed complexion. I frowned and asked again.

In the 80’s, she attended the military college in Russia, and the American school system in 2020 was completely unfamiliar to her.

“After undergraduates… … Was a graduate student, maybe? But what is graduate school mainly doing? There are so many things that are different from my college days here, in the Republic, and in college these days… … .”

“easy. All you have to do is follow the professor’s guidance, the highest dignity of the laboratory, without any doubts. … … Oh, Hye-in. Dad is here.”

“… … hello.”

At that time, Jung-hwan suddenly recognized the person sitting at the living room table first, his daughter Hye-in, and greeted him, but Yoo Hye-in was kindly greeted by her father.

She had recently passed her doctoral dissertation at Harvard and had returned from Boston to Washington, where she was spending time at home with her parents.

In hindsight, it was the first reunion of the three families under one roof in nearly 15 years, but perhaps because the time they had been separated for so long, there was a lot of awkwardness between the family members.

Yoo Hye-rim and Hye-in were a mother and daughter who resembled each other and just opened their hearts to each other like mothers and daughters from other families who had been together for a long time.

‘After all, this is all my original sin. However, it seemed that the graduation ceremony was a little closer a while ago… … . I can’t make up for 15 years of time so quickly.’

Maybe he knows what Jeonghwan shrugs while feeling bitter at the sound of his daughter’s voice, who seems to be distracted, but Hyein keeps her eyes on TV news channels, who are still busy predicting ‘post-Trump America’. there was.

But if Junghwan had observed her daughter a little more carefully then, he would have noticed that Hyein’s eyes were on the TV screen but her head was somewhere else.

The fact that she is deeply contemplating something from her complicated expression, that she secretly glances at her father from time to time, and that she finally has a determined light in her eyes as if she has decided on something.

But just then, Hye-in Yoo came out of the kitchen with a plate and sat down at the table.

“Eat your meal. Hye In. Today, we have crab soup that you like.”

“Well? ah! Yes, I will eat well, mother. Still, I really wanted to eat Korean food in Boston… … .”

Dinner soon began.

Because Jeonghwan, the head of the family, returned home early, the overall atmosphere was friendly, but there were still only brief conversations between Jeonghwan and Hyein, and only Hyerim Yoo was caught between two women with different minds.

At that time, Korean news began to appear on the TV in the living room.

To be precise, it was news about the recent scandal of the South Korean president.

-… … It is also raising concerns whether the Blue House of President Ahn Hwi-jung, who has lost most of the current leadership, will be able to properly respond to the historic foreign variable of the election of President Donald Trump. North and South Korea-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty Amendments and renewals are doubtful whether they will retain their momentum in the face of isolationist President-elect Trump… … .

-In the ruling and opposition parties, words such as the privilege of non-prosecution, resignation and acting as the prime minister, and early introduction of the dual government system are coming out. On the other hand, most of the Korean people are feeling a strong distrust and disappointment that they have encountered such a situation in the middle of the consensus unification stage… … .

Since the subject was the subject, all the family members, including Junghwan, stopped making fun of the spoon and turned to the TV screen.

It was a report on the sexual assault case of the secretary of the 19th president of South Korea Hwi-jeong Ahn, but the scandal that exploded like a bomb a few months ago has not diminished, but has grown bigger and bigger, so even after the all-time incident of the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, it is a major portal site. The first-ranked article on site politics was about the same as the article related to this case.

In fact, the incumbent president Ahn Hwi-jeong was an above-average popular president before this incident.

A former administrator who served as the governor of Chungcheongnam-do and has proven his competent policing abilities, he belongs to the progressive camp, but belongs to the Democratic Party, but does not get caught up in ideology and accepts the logic of the conservative camp in various aspects of state affairs. It was the driving force that made him president.

In the discussion of unification, he took a central position that emphasized speed control, and above all, the image of a young president in contrast to the rigidity of the former president, who was an old man and a military veteran, appealed to both progressives and conservatives, making the president not difficult. was elected to… … At this point, it was almost certain that he would become the most dishonorable resignation president in the history of the Republic of Korea.

And the incident in which the president’s secretary, not anyone else, accused the incumbent president of sexual assault itself had a great shock to the people of both sides, of course, especially the people of the South. The current situation was that the general secretary moved up and down the population untimely.

On the Internet, keyboard battles continued non-stop between netizens of both regimes, and North Korean netizens ridiculing the South and South Korean netizens who struggled to deny them even bought a coin, saying, ‘Consensual reunification is too extravagant for this Hellnam Joseon, and absorption reunification is the only thing of great leader Kim Jeong-hwan. Aggros who depreciated the country as saying that it is the only way that the reactionaries of the South can embrace in the arms of the Republic.

-It’s embarrassing, on the Internet, North Korean kids laugh and laugh every day, but there’s nothing to say… … At least, the head of the state in that neighborhood didn’t say whether or not to be investigated for sexual assault, right?

-I have a job in Pyongyang, and I often argued with my co-workers over political issues. But these days, what really upsets me is that I can’t even answer the question of whether the president elected by such great democracy is such a guy… … .

In addition, when the incredible news of the election of Trump, who was treated as a mere talker and a clown in the United States as if pouring oil, overlapped, the general public also asked, ‘Maybe the old North Korean system is right?’ The current situation is that statistics are showing that skepticism and distrust of the same democratic system itself are increasing significantly.

And in Washington, D.C., far away from Korea, Jeonghwan was muttering as if he were someone else, looking at a news anchor who recites this worrying situation in Korea with a serious expression.

“Ttttttt, the president of a country is someone who can’t even differentiate between projects like that. I want to know how anyone else would ever want to touch his secretary.”

“… … You, honestly, don’t you get stabbed when you say that?”

“Yeah, no!”

Jeonghwan brazenly replied to Yoo Hye-rim, who had a shocked expression, and thought about whether he would get up from the table soon, it happened.

Yoo Hye-in, who had been contemplating on something until now, made a decision as if she had made a decision, her eyes shining brightly and smashing the table.

“father! I’ve decided! I want to go back to that republic and devote myself to politics!”

“Kuh-huh!?!?!”

#writer’s words

As much as possible, I’ll try to write it again tomorrow.

I am struggling to decorate the neat and meaningful end.