＜ Chapter 36. Wolf and Tiger (2) ＞
Chapter 36. Wolf and Tiger (2)
After saying that, the man added a word to the interpreter in a blunt, low voice.
“Interpreter, just tell them I’m often called Dick Cheney, Dick. Or ‘Secretary of Defense Cheney’ would be fine.”
Of course, Nakao knew that person, Dick Cheney.
The current U.S. Secretary of Defense, one of the core of the current George Herbert Walker Bush administration, and most importantly, isn’t he a key figure in the Neocon, a new conservative force emerging in the United States after the victory in the Gulf War?
Of course, Dick Cheney is the secretary of defense of the United States, the world’s most powerful country, so he can’t or can’t come to the Davos forum.
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Nakao knew he was here as a special envoy to the United States, but why the hell did he appear at the moment of the meeting with Kim Young-nam?It was even more absurd that Kim Young-nam came up with a proposal from Kitajosen, after he managed to manage the confusion for a while.
“The decision made by our general secretary comrade is that compensation for the damage to the colonies and the resolution of that ‘specific missing person’ issue cannot be reached so quickly.”
“……What the hell does that mean? Chairman Kim.”
“I will officially admit that the kidnapping of the Japanese was a mistake made by some extremists during the former general period by overinterpreting the meaning of our supreme dignity. However, discussing that, the establishment of diplomatic ties, and compensation for the 36 years that our Korean people suffered under the Japanese occupation and abuse is a completely different matter.”
“……No, what is that……!!”
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Nakao had to make an effort to keep his words from coming out harshly, making an impression on the negotiation that was going completely unexpectedly.Originally, the idea that Nakao and the Japanese cabinet, who sent him as an agent, tried to propose to Kim Young-nam was a total deal on the issue of abducted Japanese, establishment of diplomatic ties, and colonial reparations.
While acknowledging their crimes, North Korea repatriated all abducted Japanese civilians, and in return for such a favor, Japan paid hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for damage during the colonial period, thereby resolving all problems that hinder diplomatic ties between the two countries. was to be solved in
As a result, all of North Korea’s individual and national claims for colonial damage in the former Japanese Empire will be permanently extinguished, and Nakao guessed that the biggest obstacle in the process would be the amount of compensation.
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Nakao even giggled deep inside that he might have to thank the Japanese people for being ‘abducted’ in a sense.– It would have been difficult if the other side saw the Korean precedent and raised the amount or wasted time while arguing that only a few hundred million dollars would cover the suffering of our Josen people for over 30 years. because the word If this happens, there is a high probability that the US will also be on our side. After all, Japan is the non-invasion carrier of Northeast Asia. I’ll have to nail it down so I can’t say anything else this time.
As such, Nakao was quite optimistic about the prospects for negotiations, because, as before, if the opponent and North Korea had nothing to lose, North Korea was now in a situation where it was impossible to imitate such a nonsense and non-negotiable maniac.
But now, his expectations have been completely reversed.
“…Chairman Kim! We are sorry, but we cannot accept such a one-sided offer. I and the Japanese delegation here are here today to solve the abduction victims issue and the colonial reparation issue at the same time, and to establish the future relationship between Korea and Japan…”
“Uh-huh, can I intervene? Minister Nakao?”
At that moment, Nakao and the Japanese delegation’s faces hardened at the voice that came out, Dick Cheney’s thick, low voice.
It wasn’t like that, but it was red in the middle of the night, because I didn’t even know what Dick Cheney was trying to say.
Still, the incumbent Secretary of Defense could not be ignored.
“Based on my experience as a member of the administration of the United States, an ally of both countries, I believe this issue is fundamentally a human rights issue after all.”
“ah! Of course it is. So our Japanese civilians who were abducted…”
“…In that regard, I think it would be better to solve this problem step by step through a fixed dialogue channel between the two countries over time. Why don’t we just rush things and leave room for controversy later on?”
“that….”
The faces of the Japanese delegation, including Nakao, were grimaced, but no one could object.
First of all, given the length of time the North Korean side suffered damage, the longer the negotiation time was given, the longer the compensation amount and the list of victims demanded by the North Korean side would increase.
So Nakao also tried to make a deal with the abductee issue and close the room so that nothing could be said in the future.
At that moment, behind Nakao, one of the delegates asked Cheney in a cautious voice.
“Hey… Minister, did you come to this negotiating table as an individual? Or… did you attend with the title of Secretary of Defense of America…”
In other words, the question was, ‘Can what you say now be considered the official opinion of the US government?’
Although it was spoken in a Japanese way, it also contained a passive protest saying, ‘By what authority do you intervene in our negotiations with the sovereign state of North Korea, this is our problem’.
Although he had heard of it through an interpreter, Cheney was a person who could not be ignorant of these implications, so he immediately gave a sullen smile and waved his hands.
“No, of course not. I have just come to this World Economic Forum to have a non-political conversation with North Korea’s diplomatic envoy Chairman Kim, who recently established diplomatic ties, about the future economic development of North Korea. I just happened to be present here ‘accidentally’ out of curiosity.”
“……!!! Coincidentally, is it really? Anyway, if that’s the case…”
“…But today, Chairman Kim asked me for advice that there is a problem to be resolved with the Japanese side and Minister Nakao. In other words, as a friend, I am a private discussion partner with Chairman Kim, not an official mediator. How to listen, judge, and reflect my advice is entirely up to Chairman Kim, so please be aware of that. In other words, what I am saying here today has nothing to do with the White House or the Pentagon.”
“…Wait a minute, Minister. Then that means that President Bush can also report on this meeting…”
“Not even that. As I said, I just got a sudden offer from a private meeting with Chairman Kim while attending the Davos Forum today. The White House and President Bush have nothing to do with my personal schedule.”
‘Are you kidding me? After all, you are talking about sharing all the information on the negotiations between us and the North and reflecting your opinions in the dark! But what a non-political conversation that has nothing to do with it!’
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Nakao and the Japanese negotiating party wanted to shout this to themselves after hearing Dick Cheney’s lax excuses, but they dared not do so as they looked at Dick Cheney’s cold-blooded eyes that glowed coldly in the wrinkles behind his glasses.In the first place, regardless of the country, when a politician says, ‘This is just my personal statement in private,’ is an euphemism for ‘It’s a little bit formal, but I actually think this way, so please understand’.
Right now, this place, the Davos Forum itself, is also a non-governmental non-public meeting, but it is not a public fact that the results discussed and agreed upon here affect the direction of operation of countries and the United Nations as a whole.
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Nakao was not naive enough to limit it to a truly personal opinion just because the US defense secretary, who is not a low-level bureaucrat and is a merchant country to Japan and North Korea, drew the line as ‘my personal opinion not related to the administration’.Even if Dick Cheney was kicked out of this position, it would be the same as what Cheney had just declared that all negotiations made here, whether late or early, will be in Dick Cheney’s ears and his intentions and intentions will be mixed in Kim Young-nam’s mouth. .
And if Nakao goes against that will, it was also easy to predict that he would create discord with Cheney, who had a bad feeling about him in the future, whether it was the US military in Japan or anything.
‘No, but the question is, why does that arrogant American supremacist take the side of Kita Josen…. What is the benefit to the United States by creating strife among allies…’
Thinking up to this point, Nakao could quickly guess the reason when he saw the seemingly unknown, yet somewhat mocking smile on Dick Cheney’s face.
– It is absolutely unacceptable for Japan to challenge the hegemony of the United States, or to have the ability to challenge the future. Even if you have already lost the ability to do so, you will not be given a second chance to do so.
Of course, talking about human rights is a blatant lie, so Nakao didn’t even put it on the list of considerations.
The reason Dick Cheney is siding with North Korea in this abductee issue is not because he likes North Korea, but simply because he doesn’t want Japan to expand its influence.
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Now, only a year after the bubble burst, the images of ‘Japan that can say NO’ and ‘Japan that inflict economic retaliation against the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki’ remained in the minds of conservative Americans.Aren’t most of the old veterans who shouted ‘Kill Japs (kill the bastards!)’ alive in the Pacific War right now?
And the veterans’ generation was, by nature, the support base of the Republican Party, where the current US President George W.
It is not at all strange to say that by taking the side of Kitajosen under the pretext of human rights, it raises Japan’s rival in Northeast Asia and induces a competition for loyalty.
When hunting the giant prey of China, the dog owner wants the dogs to cooperate with each other, but if he thinks that one of the dogs is likely to have his teeth sticking at him, then the owner would have another hound to bit off the rebel’s neck, and he’d rather have his hound bit off the rebel’s neck. it’s the same thing
‘I’m sorry, but I have to step back from here. If the US presidential election is this year, and Clinton ascends to the presidency, then it is safe to sit on the negotiating table with the understanding of the US again.’
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Nakao could not even see who had brought a tiger named Dick Cheney to the negotiating table to contain a wolf named himself.When it comes to ‘diplomatic battles for the prestige of the republic,’ if anyone can make North Korea, which has been cumbersomely closed and secretive, cooperate with the original US imperialist Dick Cheney (which they hate so much), their supreme leader. , who else but the young shogun, the young man Nakao himself once looked down on?
If I had known this would happen, I should have put away the bullshit of defeating the United States by falling into the illusion of a bubble economy early, and should have focused more on convincing Republican and neo-con politicians who were starting to look at them with unkind eyes and bringing them to the side of Japan, Nakao said. I regretted it, but it was already too late.
“haha. From what I’ve heard, Defense Secretary Cheney seems to be right. It seems like it would be okay to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations between Kitajosen and Nippon again at an appropriate time.”
“Hmm, it’s the right time…”
Dick Cheney rolled those words out of his mouth and glanced at Nakao.
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Nakao clenched his teeth inwardly at Cheney’s gaze, as if looking at the reptile’s.Regarding the meaning of the ‘appropriate time’ that he had just mentioned inadvertently, Dick Cheney noticed that he understood what he understood as ‘when you, the disruptor, were overthrown and then a cabinet friendly to Japan came into being’.
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Nakao was in a hurry to add an explanation, but Dick Cheney was a bit quicker.“…Of course, diplomatic relations between the two countries are not an area for me to meddle, but I just hope that North Korea-Japan relations improve as soon as possible as a factor in the United States, an ally of both North Korea and Japan. Human rights are built on strong security, and strong security is built on trustworthy alliances.”
“……Of course it is, but…”
“I am particularly excited about Japan’s role as a hegemon in Northeast Asia. I would like to remind Secretary Nakao that the United States has always appreciated Japan’s responsibility to its allies, both economically and militarily.”
‘I don’t want to worry about the little things in the neighborhood, so you should take care of it in the first place. Just don’t create dissonance.’
In the end, that day, Nakao and Kim Young-nam had no choice but to agree on a few major issues (receiving Dick Cheney’s mediation and not mediation).
– North Korea issued a statement on the issue of abducted Japanese abductees, stating that ‘it regrets that there was a misunderstanding in the past and pays a certain amount of compensation to each abductee’
– The two countries will open embassies in Pyongyang and Tokyo as soon as possible (the function of the North Korean embassy will be taken over by Cho Chongryon) and formal diplomatic relations will be established.
– Since the issue of colonial reparations and claims is too complex to be resolved at once, it is resolved through in-depth discussion and investigation after diplomatic relations are established.
At first glance, it seemed that North Korea had made a unilateral concession by expressing a pretentious apology and repatriating the abductees.
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Nakao also took the initiative to solve the abducted Japanese problem on his own and received an apology in the form of ‘sorry’ from the sassy (rather than eccentric) Kitajousen, thereby enhancing the prestige of the country and establishing himself as the next prime minister. seemed to have been achieved.However, the Japanese delegation boarding the plane from Switzerland to Japan heard Minister Nakao sighing and muttering like this, who made a big contribution to improving his country.
“Now I have to pray that Bush will not be re-elected, or at least that person like the atomic bomb will not be re-confided in the second term of the Bush administration…”
As soon as he returned to Japan, he mobilized all his personal and information networks to find out how Kim Jung-hwan drew an alliance called Dick Cheney to form a united front, Nakao honed his teeth.
They believed that Japan would not fall behind when it came to lobbying against the United States, but while they were drenched in the sweet dream of a bubble for a while, it was clear that someone under the water had worked hard to publicize the opinion against Japan among the Washington Republican elites.
And, in fact, Nakao’s prediction was correct.
At the time he got on the plane to Japan, Dick Cheney was also talking to someone on the plane to Washington.
“Secretary Cheney, this is the general secretary. Now that the US presidential election is coming soon, President Bush must be very worried in many ways.”
“……Hmm, honestly, that’s a bit surprising. General Secretary Kim. Not anywhere else, but North Korea’s supreme leader is worried about our election.”
At Dick Cheney’s vaguely sarcastic two, Jeonghwan responded with a leisurely smile.
“ha ha ha. A monkey is a monkey even if it falls from a tree, but a politician is not a person if it falls from an election. How can I not understand such pain and pressure? As you may have forgotten for a moment, I am also an elected leader. I have won all the elections I have ever held with a 99% approval rate .”