＜ Interlude. Special instructions for Comrade General Secretary after visiting the Guard Bureau ＞
interlude. Special instructions for Comrade General Secretary after visiting the Guard Bureau
“That’s bullshit.”
“D, I have nothing to tell you…”
“I’m not blaming the commanding comrade. I didn’t expect anything like this to change overnight.”
Jeonghwan responded that way to the unknown commander who couldn’t raise his head in sweat, but his heart was still troubled.
The beginning was the creation of a ‘special escort bureau’ that would escort General Secretary Jeong-hwan from nearby areas.
Hong Gye-seong, who was worried about how to get more into Jeong-hwan’s heart, didn’t know that there might be a ‘rebel gang who dared to aim a gun at a comrade of the general secretary who is respected by 20 million people as a great man of all ages’. It was suggested that we create a bodyguard, so to speak, of a bodyguard.
At first, Jung-hwan did not quite agree with the suggestion.
Rather than having a baseless confidence that Jeong-hwan was insecure or who would dare harm him, in fact, the troops escorting the Baekdu lineage, including Jeong-hwan, shrank after taking office as the supreme leader, but did not increase.
First of all, the security unit that guards Jeonghwan’s main place of work (they had armored vehicles in the name of the guard unit) was already fulfilling its duty, and Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, who were paranoid about their personal safety, were escorted more than necessary. It was because he was well aware of how the People’s Army was turned into a dead end after increasing the number of troops.
I mean, didn’t he have a hard time when he started making great things from Jeonghwan right away by twisting the organization in such a way that tens of thousands of elites were intensively assigned to the Security Department and the Byeoluibyeol Units at the escort headquarters to prevent the military from mutiny?
However, it was Yoo Hye-rim who changed Jung-hwan’s skeptical intention.
– I think it’s better to pay more attention to your comrades’ personal security issues.
– Lieutenant Yu, I’m still fine…
– Please. Please respect your own well-being, even from my perspective. The safety of the general secretary is the safety of the republic, and furthermore, the safety of all the people.
– ……………
Thus, it was decided to establish a bodyguard unit under Jeonghwan, a special escort bureau.
The ‘the best warriors of the Republic who would jump even in fire for comrades in the general secretary’, formed around the officers of the naval sniper brigade and the contingent troops who participated in the Persian Gulf War (Gulf War), gathered (excited by the increase in the tide) Hong Gye-seong Under the leadership of Baek Seung-cheol, a shooting training demonstration was also presented.
However, Jung-hwan, who was watching the training demonstrations such as breaking, infiltration, airlifting, and shooting of the ‘Special Guard Department 1’, with a sullen face, gave instructions as if he suddenly remembered something.
– Hmmm, everyone is in white hair.
– The best of the Republic’s best, elite warriors. Comrade general secretary! So that no one dares to even dream of putting a finger on the body of the general secretary…
– Oh, right? Then, I want to see what the general people’s comrades are like in the general People’s Army, not just the officers.
– ………Yes? comrade?
Leaving Hong Gye-seong with a ‘uh-huh…?’ expression on his face, Jeong-hwan salutes the officers (who must have struggled to die for today) as soon as the demonstration is over, gets up from his seat and gives instructions to Hye-rim Yoo.
– Start the engine, Lieutenant Yu. It would be better to go to the nearest Pyongyang Security Command first.
And immediately, with only a few aides, he visited the front-line unit without prior notice and ordered the unit commander (whose face turned white from embarrassment) to demonstrate the improvised shooting of the lower fighters.
Most of the fighters who were randomly selected from the training ground and fired were those who could not hit more than 10 out of 20 shots at a target 200m away, and among them, they were in a doubtful posture with a Type 88 automatic rifle and sweating. There were also warriors who only shed.
However, in the case of how the target was hit, the impact group spread widely, and it was not uncommon for the group to deviate significantly from the human-shaped target printed on paper, wondering whether it was shot with a rifle or a shotgun.
Yoo Hye-rim (from the escort command), who was observing the impromptu training with Jeong-hwan, sighed for a long time as if she was pathetic.
“Comrade, General Secretary… I immediately sent the commander of the unit to the revolutionization training…”
“Don’t stop. As I said, it’s been less than a year since you increased the budget for shooting training, but I’m not sure that the skills of the fighters are going to get better any time soon, because they’re not special forces in the first place. However, there is a problem that it is neither Hamgyeong nor a mountain valley, nor is the Pyongyang Security Command in this area.”
Jeonghwan waved his hand to the generals under Hong Gye-seong, who rushed after him, and said so.
But his head was throbbing as he tried so hard to soothe him.
‘Obviously, it wasn’t this serious from the report of the secretary’s office… Well, it’s the same in Korea, so it’s a video if you don’t watch it here. However, even here as a Korean people, they have all the three elements of the army: go, shobu, and shobu, right?’
In fact, the general reason for the disastrous shooting performance of general fighters of the People’s Army was that shooting training to improve their skills was rare.
It has not been long since the supply of supplies to the front-line units was properly implemented in the first place, and there was no room for shooting training.
On a huge scale of over a million people, the deformed defense budget, which was concentrated exclusively on special forces to escort the Kim family, had a disastrous result of ‘average use of less than 10 rounds of ammunition per year’ per fighter of the People’s Army.
Even if not a special forces unit, the state of the elite Pyongyang Security Command protecting Pyongyang, the capital of the revolution, is at this point.
‘Even if I think about not rushing, this really makes me sigh every time I see it. Although it is difficult to raise the combat capability per person right away, I need to focus on reforming the special forces first, including my escort station. If you make a mistake, you’ll be the first national leader to be killed by an ally who fired them to catch an assassin…’
“Baek Seung-cheol, listed comrade. What do you feel?”
“…It is truly embarrassing to see Comrade General Secretary… But it is my opinion as a general that this situation is fundamentally the result of focusing on quantity rather than quality rather than the number of heads of the People’s Army.”
‘Hey, can you see this friend? You drank water in Kuwait and you’ve grown up a bit?’
Although he was conscious of Hong Gye-seong standing next to him, he avoided speaking directly, but seeing Baek Seung-cheol giving the correct answer, ‘Even if the number of elders decreases, thinking about the future and reducing the number of elites is the way to live.’ .
Clearly, a person must know that he is high in the sky in order to progress.
“That’s right. However, starting with the Special Guards Bureau established today, some special forces seem to need immediate action. It’s a long sword. Even if it takes a long time to sharpen me, shouldn’t we have a dagger that can be used at any time in our republic? As soon as you return to the clerk’s office, call Factory 95.”
Factory No. 95 was a North Korean military factory located in Hyesan, Yanggang Province.
To the engineer who was called to the secretary’s office, Jeonghwan recalled the memories of his previous life in his head, drew a rough picture, and instructed the secretary’s office to show him some prototypes that looked like they had taken off the glasses he had somehow saved.
“Can you make it?”
“……It’s not that difficult. Lenses have to be imported, but we can make the rest according to this picture.”
“There are already products on the market, so import the finished products from the US and lenses from Japan as much as you need to try them out and study them. For batteries, I borrowed the hands of my comrades from the Hyundai Group. Oh, and this business…”
Jeonghwan looked at Baek Seung-cheol, who was listening to his instructions in the secretary’s office, and said a hint.
“…Let’s take responsibility for the listing comrade Baek and try it. Probably because you saw the Yankees special forces in Kuwait yourself, I believe you know best how to make them and where to use them.”
“I dedicated myself to doing it! Comrade General Secretary!”
The rough picture that Jeonghwan drew and showed them was a thick rectangular-shaped cover reminiscent of a railroad track attached to the barrel of a gun, an object that would be called a Picatinny rail if a future person saw it at this point in time.
And the items obtained from the clerk’s office were an early form of holographic site (Holographic Sight, also called Dot Sight) that was experimentally used mainly by the U.S. special forces at that time, It was something that Baek Seung-cheol was also quite familiar with.
Soon, Jeong-hwan’s instructions became ‘the general secretary’s instructions to promote a massive improvement in the shooting skills of military sergeants and officers’ under Baek Seung-cheol’s supervision, and were delivered to the munitions factory, and the technicians worked all night.
In the case of the holographic site, the most important lens was from Olympus, a Japanese camera manufacturer, and the battery had to be borrowed from Hyundai Electronics.
However, rails had already been used to some extent in the Eastern Bloc including the Soviet Union, so engineers were able to produce prototypes by applying them to AK series assault rifles, such as the Type 68 subgun, which was the main rifle of the People’s Army at the time, in just a week.
“Good job, since it’s 91 this year, it’s called the Type 91 Infantry Gun Plan. Now that the new sight has been completed, it should be supplied to the reconnaissance brigades, the escort bureau, and the special action corps of the General Bureau of Foreign Reconnaissance to find out the reactions of frontline officers.”
Soon, about 100 of the Type 91 subguns were produced and distributed to front-line military officers with a shaky expression on their faces, saying, ‘Why did you put only one spectacle grain on top of the subgun?’.
In the test shooting, Baek Seung-cheol, who was listed as a public official, took up his gun.
“Come on, take a look! What have you been up to when your comrades usually fire aiming shots?”
“That’s it… First, align the sight and scale on the rifle with the eyes in a straight line, then close one eye and adjust your breathing…”
“Now you don’t have to do anything like line-of-sight alignment! Just put the red dot you can see inside this new scope on the target you want to shoot and pull the trigger!”
Without needing to explain for a long time, Seungcheol Baek went into the actual test, and it wasn’t long before the officers of the reconnaissance brigade burst out in exasperation.
Unlike other fighters, they had been trained in shooting relatively well, so they could immediately feel the benefits of the new sight and dot sight.
“Hey, this is amazing!”
“With this, you can shoot with both eyes open without having to aim with a single eye!”
“Isn’t this a bit useful even at night?”
Seeing the officers of the reconnaissance brigade babbling like a child who had received a new toy, Baek could feel the stone-like feelings of defeat and crisis in his heart that he had felt while watching Schwarzkopf’s US troops throughout the Gulf War, just a little, very little.
But thinking that he still had a long way to go, he quickly came to his senses and flogged the officers and himself.
“There is nothing to like! If the battery (battery) runs out, this new sight is just a heavy ornament. Don’t neglect shooting practice with an old-fashioned sight! Comrade General Secretary spends the blood of the people to provide special supplies only to comrades who show the best skills among the people’s warriors, so please pay special attention to management so that it does not break down!”
Jeonghwan’s next defense plan was to reduce the number of active-duty soldiers of the Korean People’s Army from 1 million to 400,000 over a short period of 5 years or as long as 7.8 years.
If the budget is increased but the number of heads is reduced, the quality will be improved, and the individual infantry level will also be able to focus on improving combat power.
However, considering the present time of 1991, and the main enemy the Korean People’s Army will face in the future, he had no intention of speeding.
“First of all, distributing Dot Sites to the former High Warlords is a huge waste in terms of cost and efficiency. For the time being, we plan to supply mainly the operational troops of the special forces of the sniper brigade, and to supply and use only the machine gunners to the front-line units. The full-scale mass production of the Type 91 subgun will not begin until a few years after expanding the factory facilities. You don’t know why you’d have to put this on a gun right now, but you’ll find out in a few years. It doesn’t cost a lot of money right now, is it?”
In the original history, the RIS, Rail Interface System, introduced for the first time by the Western armies centered on the United States, was first introduced by the Korean People’s Army of North Korea, and it was the moment when the formalization and mass production were decided.
Some of the engineers at Factory No. 95, who put these special instructions into practice by Jeonghwan, later built up their own technology and established a company called ‘Chosun Optical Group’. It is reborn as a global company that competes with Trijicon and EOTech of the United States in the other gun accessory market, but for now, it was still a story of the future .