＜ Chapter 39. Chaos Sinuiju (1) ＞
Chapter 39. Chaos Sinuiju (1)
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Pedigreeism, and nationalism based on it, is so powerful that it is established as a basic human instinct to leave one’s own genes to the next generation.
And the strength of that primal instinct is very easily as it is when they are invaded (or they may be invaded) by other peoples or groups, regardless of what they call their own nation, fellow countrymen, homeland, or other groups. is replaced with
How easily the underlying anger and the power of murder can overwhelm emotions such as love, charity, mercy, and consideration, and what kind of tragedy that overpowering can create is what is now Bosnia, which was a part of Yugoslavia not so long ago. It was vividly realized in the country.
– With the United States and the European Community (EC) recognizing the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnic conflicts are intensifying in Bosnia. This chaos is gradually spreading into an inter-ethnic and interreligious civil war, as militias of the Serb population who have taken the initiative attack the relative minorities of Bosnian Muslims and Croatians. According to the testimonies of local refugees, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and sexual assault by Serbs are already being carried out in some areas.
However, as it proves that pure blood, obsession with blood, exclusivity, and xenophobia appear in all East and West, there was a riot between three different groups not only in the former Yugoslav Federation, but also in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Sinuiju Special Planning Zone on the other side of the world. .
“Hey, you bastards! Let’s die today and let me die! When I got caught, I shredded my fingernails!”
Choi Moo-ryong shouted at the whale and chased after a service car with a Chinese license plate (service car: taxi) that disappeared in the distance, but it was already in vain.
The other taxi drivers, who had similarly flushed faces next to them, saw the sight and spit on the floor.
“That one… He spoke Korean as if he had greased it, and the customer was confused, but that’s not the guy, he’s just a Korean-Chinese bastard. The bastards who claim to be compatriots stuck here and there… Those guys are more than anything else! They don’t even have enough salted fish!”
“How many times have you been to this already? Security guards, things are getting better in the Republic these days, so you’re just going to back down…! It wasn’t like this when we were in office… ah!”
As he recalled the days of ‘Nostalgic Old Times’, Choi Moo-ryong burst out in anger and rolled his feet as if he couldn’t stand it.
His occupation was to move customers by car and earn a living by paying a fee, and he was a worker in the transportation industry called ‘servi car’, which is rapidly increasing in North Korea these days, called taxi in capitalist society.
Of course, he wasn’t a taxi driver from the beginning as Choi Moo-ryong himself had just been so upset that he couldn’t overcome his anger, and his previous job was to eat the rust of the country.
Mu-ryong Choi and his colleagues working as taxi drivers here in Sinuiju were once mostly low-ranking political officers belonging to the Politburo of the Korean People’s Army.
“What kind of babbling bastards, until a few years ago, when was the last time you said that you should say hello to each other when you see them because they are a big country and we are a small country. Now that things aren’t going well for them, you crawl in here and ruin someone else’s business? Comrades! Even if we don’t eat the rust of the party right now, when should we not show the wrath of the Korean people?”
“Comrade Wu-Ryong is so right! Those bastards, no, my bastards were second to none, but those Korean-Chinese bastards had to catch the blade and pay the bills. Am I wrong? Comrades?”
“right! That’s right! When they were well fed, they bragged that they were people living in Dandong, but now that our republic is getting richer, we have to live with the same bloody compatriots in Sinuiju, the same republic.
Fireworks flared in the eyes of North Korean taxi drivers, including Choi Moo-ryong.
Most of the taxi drivers gathered there were military officers at one time, so they all had the same temperament and the same physique.
To understand why Choe Moo-ryong and others who once pretended to be political officers of the Korean People’s Army, including Choi Mu-ryong, are doing this near the Sinuiju-Dandong border, we had to go back a few years.
– Why are there so many politicians? Is it possible to quickly respond in an emergency by twisting the military command system like this? From today, the military political department will be downgraded to Jeong Hoon-guk and the number of personnel will be drastically reduced. what? Oh, you don’t have to worry about that, I’ll give you a way to make a living.
The reason that they took off their military uniforms and jumped into the ‘private economy’ is now the only successor of Kim Il-sung in North Korea (there was one more in the middle, but everyone was not consciously speaking), about Gwangmyeongseong, who came down to the ground. It was because of the military reorganization of Comrade Kyung Ae, who was deified as a .
The place where General Secretary Jeong Hwan cut the most swords while carrying out disarmament was the Political Department, where the outdated People’s Army political members were gathered. Most of the members became unemployed overnight.
However, unlike Jeong-hwan, who feared that leaving the political members who had been deeply educated only on the system and loyalty to the leader on the street could lead to fierce dissatisfaction with the young leader’s body system, he offered a carrot to appease them. .
– Give these comrades priority in the transportation business. No matter how incapable of monitoring the same military officers, even an incompetent political member would be able to run a taxi company that doesn’t require great skills. Even so, the railroad alone was not enough to transport people from place to place in the republic until the public transportation system was established.
In fact, this technique was benchmarked by Jeong Hwan of the method used to appease the dissatisfaction of political soldiers who had unnecessarily increased during the new military era in South Korea when they retired. cheap
Although it was the greatest reduction in personnel since the founding of the Korean People’s Army, the reason why there were relatively few complaints is that many political members realized that if it had been ‘general generals’, most of them would have had to sit at home without even receiving this and remain in the light of daylight. Because they knew it deep down.
“Wow, Comrade General Secretary is also indifferent. If a comrade had given us one chance and one chance to jump into the fire with a single word from our comrade, we would have become a glorious gun bomb to protect him at the forefront…
“Uh-huh, comrade, the noise of a big deal… Where are you going to do such a reactionary thing! Have you not heard the appeal of Comrade Hong Gye-sung that, when leaving the military, that the Republic and the masses must adapt to the changing times in order to live? Remember, is it the fault of Comrade General Secretary that we are the way we are now? It’s because of those Dandong people who will kill me, the Korean-Chinese Gannars who eat together with them!”
“Is that so…”
In fact, like Moo-ryong Choi, many of the ‘former’ political members were not without expectations to take off their military uniforms and jump into the capitalist market to make money, because they also had an intuition that the republic was changing.
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Neither the ’10 principles for a single leadership system’ nor the Order of the People’s Heroes can satisfy the hungry stomach of himself, his wife, and his children.Literally, you have to jump into the market and earn as much as you can, so that you can eat meat soup with this rice that the party has never been able to feed you, and if you are lucky, you can become a money owner or a capitalist.
While everyone was feeling that way without knowing it, the party just released them (?) and gave them candy called the Serbitha business right to earn as much as they could and help the republic, so there were a lot of people who expected a second life .
Mu-ryong Choi was one of them, and when his superiors in the military opened a taxi company and hired him and his former comrades, he didn’t know how the day would go by the fun and rewarding of earning money that he had never felt while in the military.
In fact, in response to the explosively increasing demand for public transportation in the republic during reform and opening up, the service car business did quite well, so so far.
“It’s only happened once or twice that I’ve trusted a security guard and sat in disbelief, my neck was taken in front of the Sinuiju train station, and my neck was taken in front of an international hotel where foreign guests came in, and now even that guy comes in. ?”
When one of my co-workers pointed at a building that was just waiting to be opened, a building that had been a hot topic in downtown Sinuiju for several years, Choi Moo-ryong and many North Korean taxi drivers nodded heavily as if in agreement.
Choi Moo-ryong, who initially ran a service car business in Pyongyang, was soon overjoyed and came to Sinuiju with his family, of course, because he was tempted by rumors that business in Sinuiju would make more money.
Since the Joseon Dynasty, Sinuiju Special Zone has been a hub city for trade and products adjacent to China, so when Jeong-hwan first designated it as a planned special zone, it was the place where the party put the most effort and investment in its development.
Three years after opening, Sinuiju is growing into an international city, crowded with people from China, Russia, and North Korea, with new buildings going up every day, restaurants and shops opening up to attract customers.
And, of course, the taxi business of Choi and his colleagues was thriving day by day, as these foreign guests with ample pockets could not even walk to their destination with a sore foot.
The problem was that they weren’t the only ones paying attention to these golden business opportunities.
– What is that? No, why are my bastards doing business here?
– Whoa…! They’re stealing all our guests! Those who will kill me…!!!
A new competitor had appeared in the Sinuiju service car industry, and the competitor was Chinese and Korean-Chinese taxi drivers who were operating in Dandong across a bridge.
Sinuiju and Dandong are originally close to each other, and since both are border cities entering Korea and China, their allies, residents have lived as if they were neighbors.
The Chinese in Dandong tended to ignore the North Koreans of Sinuiju, immersed in the arrogance of being a great power and the idea of China, and as Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-up led to an increase in the income of Dandong residents, they are now more openly treating North Koreans as servants. .
The North Koreans were also immersed in the nationalism that ‘the Korean people are the best people in the world’, which the Workers’ Party of Korea had indoctrinated. It used to be a trend until a few years ago that it kept sticking here and there….
Then, everything changed when Jeong-hwan took office as general secretary, North Korea reformed and opened up, and almost at the same time, China was subjected to economic sanctions due to the Tiananmen Square incident.
The situation had been reversed.
– Now we eat better and live better! What these guys! How long did you know it was your world? Long live the Republic! Long live the general secretary! Ha ha ha ha…!!!
-What are you going to pick up at this Sinuiju’s floor? Don’t come in, don’t come in. You know, it won’t be fun if you play rudely!
– Ebebebe…! What bastards ‘Deung So-pyeong is a humpback-headed asshole.’ Try it! And long live Comrade Kim Jeong-hwan! Long live the Korean people, just once, show me a taste of this Japanese snack!
Of course, economic sanctions imposed by China from other countries, including the United States, also affected Dandong, a trading city, and the number of trucks and cars entering Dandong has significantly decreased.
A shadow of sorrow was cast on the faces of Chinese traders who had been helping them until recently, and the night view of Dandong, which had been a nightmare from the other side of the Yalu River, became even darker.
On the other hand, Sinuiju, which was designated as a special planned zone by the Central Party of Pyongyang and began to attract money and people, changed day by day, as if in contrast to Dandong, who was groaning at economic sanctions.
However, Mu-ryong Choi and the taxi drivers, who had such a happy day and day, noticed that from one day, taxi drivers from Dandong moved to Sinuiju and sat in their business area to steal customers like gold.
– If you don’t catch them, what are your comrades doing?
– Oh, comrades, you said that over there is not the people of our republic, but it is complicated in many ways, right? If you report it to the Sinuiju Provincial Party Committee and ask for cooperation from the Pyongyang Foreign Ministry there, it will take a year. The people of our republic also moved to Dandong during difficult times to trade and live, so please be generous if you can for the sake of friendship between the two countries.
“Does Cho Joong-ho feed our mouths? You can’t just be patient with this!”
The reason they are gathering here now is, in a word, an extremely capitalist problem of living, the so-called ‘infringement of commercial rights’.
Chinese taxi drivers, who crossed the Jo-Joong-Woo Bridge from Dandong, where the economy was hit, gradually increased in number and organizational power as weapons, and began to absorb the customers of North Korean taxi drivers such as Choi Mu-ryong.
At first, he started taking customers in front of Sinuiju Station, and later he was reaching out to the neck of a new money-making building in front of the Kukje Hotel and now in the center of Sinuiju.
What is even more unbearable for Choi Mu-ryong and others is that in recent years, Chinese people have even brought in Japanese-made radios to form an organized system, so that North Koreans take their time to take a break, or even deliberately obstruct the driving of North Korean taxi drivers on the road. It was because
Korean-Chinese of Korean descent and Chinese nationality were shrewd among them, working as clerks and interpreters, earning even commissions.
And a few days ago, when a North Korean taxi driver was surrounded and beaten by Chinese taxi drivers who were trying to steal their customers, they realized that the time had come to make a decision.
“Is the day after tomorrow the opening day of the grand new establishment in Sinuiju? Aren’t all these guys gathered around that area and already rolling their eyes? If you go like this, like other necks, your eyes will be red and yours will be taken away!”
“let’s go! Let’s go and sharpen the Korean people’s strong fist!”
Along with the shouts, North Korean taxi drivers including Choi Mu-ryong formed a group and raced through the streets of Sinuiju in taxis, a means of livelihood.
The horse was a fist, but the truck was loaded with wooden sticks, clubs, and crowbars, so it was in the mood to die if anyone died.
Eventually, they arrived in the center of Sinuiju with a determined expression, and they arrived in front of the building in question, a new joint venture where they would spend money from Sinuiju and Dandong once they opened a few days later.
‘Trump Casino Hotel in Sinuiju – Remodeled in two days!’
– As Singapore’s richest man Lee Kuan Yew once said. ‘I could make the Chinese do everything else, but it was impossible to stop them from gambling.’ The speculative industry is the best way to attract Chinese money to a planned special zone located on a border like Sinuiju. Of course, the people of our republic should be barred from entering, but… huh? Most of the people do not know what a casino is, but are there any private money holders to invest here? Don’t worry. All you need to do is arrange a joint venture with an American entrepreneur with experience in real estate development. He will also accept our offer since it is urgent now.
At the time of the development of the special zone, the general secretary permitted the casino business only for foreigners to attract foreign currency, and the building started construction. It was a casino.
The present, which is about to open after construction over the past several years, has been a building that has contributed greatly to creating the most spectacular night view in Sinuiju, which is changing its appearance day by day.
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Naturally, the majority of the guests coming and going to this casino were also wealthy customers from abroad, so the taxi drivers had no worries about making a living just with the fares they threw.Finally, Mu-ryong Choi and his colleagues found the Chinese already encamping in hordes in front of this gold vein and chasing other taxi drivers.
“There it is! Hit it! Show me what you saw! Please taste the taste of not being able to set foot in this Joseon land again!”
“These Ganna bastards, you made me beg for your life !”