＜ Chapter 40. dirty blood ＞
Chapter 40. dirty blood
Jeonghwan turned his head for a moment at Jiang Zemin’s suggestion, and then he continued with a friendly smile as if he had no black heart.
“In retrospect, even though Dandong and Sinuiju were attached to this accident, there were many factors that made economic cooperation difficult, such as customs clearance, immigration procedures, and restrictions on capital movement, right? If the two cities are united into an integrated economic zone and special administrative region, we will be able to achieve common prosperity through mutual aid.”
“… … From what I heard, General Secretary Jang is right.”
‘They’re trying to tie us up financially. It will take another year or so for the trade sanctions to be completely lifted. All right, I’ll hang you.’
It was Jiang Zemin’s clear intentions, but Junghwan didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.
Dandong is a border city with a large city called Shenyang behind it, and Sinuiju too, once the road to the mainland is opened, the logistics and capital distribution that will enter the road will speed up the blood circulation of North Korea.
Of course, I didn’t forget to make a safety device.
“Would it be okay if we elected the Chief Executive in charge of the Unified Special Administrative Region instead?”
“Hmm… … .”
Jiang Zemin seemed to ponder for a moment, but then nodded.
Anyway, there is a very high possibility that North Korea will be defeated by China in terms of know-how, capital, and population in the market economy after reform and opening up (even if it is currently being sanctioned).
Therefore, even if the chief executive is a Korean, it will be the Chinese capitalists and businessmen who actually rule Dandong and even Sinuiju with enormous economic influence.
And the Chinese Communist Party behind them will also be able to subordinate North Korea economically through them.
“Okay. It would be natural to show the virtue of concession as a large country.”
“thank you. Comrade General Secretary Zhang. The Sinuiju-Dandong Special Administrative Region will become a symbol of friendship between the two countries that will develop day by day.”
As Jeonghwan quickly bowed his head, Jiang Zemin clapped his hands as if in a good mood, and got up first to guide Jeonghwan.
“ha ha ha… … Don’t worry about accidents in Sinuiju. Because we are not narrow-minded enough to make a lot of noise for a valuable guest like General Secretary Kim with such a trivial matter.”
‘After all, the dead aren’t even Han Chinese.’
As Jung-hwan predicted, Jiang Zemin was not too concerned about the death of a taxi driver in Sinuiju.
If the Han Chinese, the mainstream ethnic group that has always dominated the mainland of China, died or were injured in a foreign land, they would have taken a more stern stance, even in consideration of national prestige, but if the opponent was a minority, he did not think so.
Of course, the CCP apparently advocated multinationalism and took the line of respecting the culture and history of each ethnic group.
But in reality, many people publicly knew that the ultimate goal was to assimilate all of them into Han Chinese.
Such attempts have always been made in both the bright and the dark, but after the death of Deng Xiaoping and the rise of Jiang Zemin and Yang Sang-kun, the forced assimilation attempts against such minorities were becoming more explicit and active.
Even a handful of immigrants are definitely behind in terms of culture and history than the Han Chinese, the founders of the Yellow River Civilization, one of the four major civilizations of mankind.
Then, it is natural for the Han Chinese to become the center and lead and take care of them.
Jiang Zemin had no doubts that this was not only the opinion of himself, but also of the majority of the Chinese, more than a billion people.
“The late Comrade Kim Il-sung will also be able to sleep peacefully when he sees his son grow up so well and lead the Republic and the people. In that sense, General Secretary Kim is truly a brilliant leader and filial son.”
At Jiang Zemin’s lip service, Junghwan answered again with a smile that didn’t make sense.
“Yeah, I’m sure my dad would think so too.”
* * *
In the days following that day’s meeting, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jeong-hwan was treated as a state guest on his first visit to China, and toured front-line cities and industrial facilities, Peking University, Central Party School, and social science academies.
At first, the issue of killing a taxi driver caused outrage among some Chinese, saying, ‘The stingray buns dared to kill a large nation’, but soon subsided when it became known that the taxi driver killed was Korean, not Han.
Minority groups, whether they are Jang, Uyghurs, or Koreans, tend to live in underdeveloped places, and felony crimes are common in those places.
If they are not decidedly Han Chinese, why should the calculating Chinese use their energy and anger at the death?
It was best to let the problems between Koreans be resolved between the Koreans and the same ethnic group as long as it did not harm the interests of China.
Jiang Zemin was no different, and the case ended with Choi Moo-ryong and the Sinuiju Provincial Party Committee paying compensation to the family of the dead Korean-Chinese taxi driver.
However, as he got on the plane back to Pyongyang after visiting China, Jung-hwan muttered to Yoo Hye-rim, who was next to him.
“It seems that the Korean-Chinese are not well-received in China.”
“The Han Chinese call everyone barbarians except themselves. In addition, the group size is so large that it is counted among the few among the minority ethnic groups, so there must be some concern for segregation and independence. However, compared to places like Tibet and Uyghurs, the treatment is pretty good.”
“Hmm. After all, unlike other minorities, Koreans have a background in our republic or south Korea. If you leave, you can have a different mind and stick with it.”
“It is a potential system instability factor. It is said that since Comrade Jiang Zemin and President Yang came to power, such assimilation policy has become more stringent… … In the case of Uyghur Muslims (Muslims), even if you see them, you can even hear them say that they are taken to a place like a correctional center or tortured to apostate them.”
“It’s stupid.”
“… … yes?”
Hyerim Yoo tilted her head slightly at Jeonghwan’s unexpected murmur.
Undoubtedly, North Korea’s extreme nationalism that has been handed down from the Kim Il-sung generation, beyond that, pure-bloodism is still deeply rooted in the civilian population (of course, it criticizes racism on the outside), and it was an idea that was accepted by all people without objection.
Even Yu Hye-rim was a person who had grown up since childhood in North Korea, a controlled country that nationally recommends pure-bloodism to the people, even though she has been very liberal in recent years.
Although she heard human sympathy for minorities who are marginalized and persecuted from the mainstream, she said that it is natural for minorities to yield their cultural characteristics or religion to some extent in order to unite the country against foreign powers. also thought
However, Jeonghwan, whom she was serving, didn’t seem to think so.
“Nationalism is basically an outdated ideology. Lieutenant Yu. It is effective for government officials to divert dissatisfaction elsewhere and encourage unity, but it is no different than a drug like Bingdu. There are national side effects.”
“… … !”
This time, Hyerim Yoo could not help but be surprised by the unexpected appearance that Junghwan showed.
As the leader of the republic, what he just said was a revolutionary statement that went beyond shock and was, in a sense, almost contrary to ‘common sense’.
Isn’t it natural for us to protect the pure blood of the Korean people from those barbarians, and to achieve self-reliance and a prosperous nation ‘between our people’?
Of course, Korean-Chinese are of the same race by blood, but in the civilian world, they were similar to jaepo (Korean-Japanese), no, in some ways, much more contempt.
“Besides, such a method of beating through coercion is highly likely to make it difficult to achieve even the original purpose of assimilation and national unity. Think back to Joseon during the Japanese occupation. Weren’t many more independence activists converted during the period of cultural rule than under truancy? If it had been 10 or 20 more years in that state, we might still be speaking Japanese.”
“… … If so, then the general secretary… … .”
“I’m going to go in a different direction from them. However, our republic is inherently lacking in population and has a small territory, so there is a fundamental limit to the development of national power. Until now, the Korean-Chinese have cooperated with a large country to make a living, but if they are treated better in this republic, they will soon realize where they will benefit. In the future, if the Chinese take care of them and let them go, it will be much easier to recruit them.”
* * *
Meanwhile, regardless of the situation in Far East Asia, a feast of violence was taking place in the Balkans of Eastern Europe, precisely what was called the former Yugoslav Federation.
Although the distance between North Korea and the Chinese Han Chinese and the Korean-Chinese conflicts in the distance was as far away as half the world physically, the motive factors were fundamentally the same.
It was a conflict between neighboring ethnic groups and religious groups, a sense of historical damage, and primordial nationalism that ‘our district’, ‘our land’ and ‘our woman’ might be taken away.
“Warriors of Serbia! wake up! Now those Muslims (Muslims) are polluting our proud territory! Destroying our culture and history! Furthermore, this Serbia will be defiled with a wave of Islam! All boys with guns, stand up and fight for the pride of your ancestors and the nation!”
“Ha, but there are Bosnians among my neighbors, and Croatian among my friends… … If you have to fight them… … .”
“Don’t be so snarky! It was only a few decades ago that Bosnian Muslims became the dogs of Nazi Germany, who mercilessly persecuted and slaughtered our Serbs! Blood never changes! If you don’t kill them first, they will kill you! Are you saying it’s okay for your family to be murdered by Bosnians and your sister and your mother to be defiled by Muslims?”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a regular army or a militia! After all, slaughtering Bosnian Muslim pigs is the same! No, slaughter is not enough! The seeds should be dried out! Take this opportunity to purify their filthy blood and make us perfect Serbs! That way you will never again try to weaken this Yugoslavia on its own!”
It started with the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which existed under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito.
With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the disappearance of the Soviet Union, Croatia and Bosnia, which were part of the Yugoslav Federation, which had a complex ethnic and religious composition, declared their independence respectively.
However, a civil war broke out when Serbs protested.
With the United States and the EC ratifying the independence of Croatia and Bosnia, the attack began by a militia composed of Serbs (called Serbian Army).
And Croatian and Bosnian Muslims found Serb friends, classmates, colleagues and neighbors in the militia who, until just yesterday, were working together in the same neighborhood as them, laughing and chatting after work.
“… … Hey, Herak, Zelko! Yovan! How can you guys do this? We’ve been friends since elementary school! I, please… … Aww!”
Until yesterday, the man next door, who was smiling and greeting each other in the morning, set the house on fire.
The bakery uncle who was genuinely worried about whether the grandmother was healthy while baking bread and that it was a good thing that she was corrected shot her to death.
Muslim men, both Bosnian and Croatian, were all shot and buried, as did a minority of Serbs who refused to obey orders and kill their neighbors.
But it was women who suffered the greatest and longest lasting damage.
Of course, as the modern war progressed, civilians, especially women and children, suffered more and more equally everywhere, but the Bosnian Civil War was particularly brutal in that respect.
“It is not enough to kill. Kill all the men, but the Muslim bitches are useless. No, our salary is also low, but you can think of it as a special bonus. If you don’t have anything like this, where would you live in the military? Heh heh.”
“This is not a crime, it is a work to purify the dirty blood of Bosnian Muslims with our Serbian blood! Because the number of children receiving our Serbian blood is increasing. Having fun and doing patriotism. haha!”
Forced ‘national assimilation’ similar to what China is doing with Uighurs, Tibetans, or Koreans was also taking place in Bosnia.
Today’s Bosnia was the place where pure bloodism, rejection of other ethnicities and religions that originated from this, and violence were perpetrated in all kinds of barbarism.
And the UN peacekeepers, who were supposed to stop this, were bound by various political restrictions and could not do anything to see all these violence and genocide being committed before their eyes.
There were very few people who had the ability and the will to actually help the Bosnian Muslims who were being slaughtered helplessly, and the very few were ‘religious compatriots’ from the Middle East.
* * *
“Itzhak! Run away!”
“Run away! catch! It’s the back door!”
The young man, Yitzhak Milosevic, ran frantically as he heard his mother’s shriek from behind.
He jumped so much that his chest felt like it was going to explode and his legs were on fire, but Yitzhak felt nothing.
Tears welled up in his eyes, and his helplessness, which could do nothing but run away, was cursed.
‘Why the hell… … Why is this happening to us… … .’
Yitzhak Milosevic was a young man with a Croatian father and a Bosnian Muslim mother.
They weren’t very wealthy, but they had a happy family. Even though they were Muslims, they also liked to eat pork, and when they saw them, the locals joked, ‘What doesn’t your Allah say?’
Each time, Yitzhak responded with a smile, saying, ‘If you live in this beggar Yugoslav socialist republic, Allah will tell you to eat pork and stay alive because there is no answer.’
But after the civil war broke out, everything changed.
Serbian neighbors, laughing and joking around, stormed into his house with rifles.
He shot and killed his resisting father in front of Yitzhak and his mother, and searched his house and took everything of value.
Yitzhak didn’t want to think about what would happen to the mother left behind, but… … .
He was unaware of the rumors of what Serb militias were doing to captured Muslim women, so he couldn’t shake the nightmarish thoughts that came to his mind.
Even when a bullet flew from behind and passed his ear, Yitzhak wanted to turn away and run to his mother at any moment.
I didn’t know how to save her, but I wanted to kneel down and appeal to the ‘neighbors’.
Were we not neighbors, even in this poor socialist country, did we all forget the time when we shared radio and looked through all the books we had lost? come.
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Nettle“… … !”
However, for a while, the sound of bullets pounding hurt his ears.
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Now they, the beasts that were once neighbors and friends, now seem to have given up the idea of catching Yitzhak and killed it altogether.Since he had no talent to run faster than a bullet, Yitzhak stood there and closed his eyes.
Even at the moment when he was out of breath, and at the last moment when he realized that death was imminent, he only remembered his mother, whom he had left behind.
At that moment, Yitzhak, for the first time in his life, sincerely prayed to Allah.
Then, gunshots rang out.
Tatata Tatang!
Tatatang!
“Little brother, are you all right? It was breathtaking.”
“… … ?”
At the first voice he had heard, Yitzhak was startled and opened his eyes.
he was still alive
“Everyone, who are you… … ?”
“We are freedom fighters who have flown from far away Afghanistan to help our fellow Muslim compatriots. Allah is great (Allāho akbar)! Even a little late would have been a disaster. Is your brother a Muslim?”
When asked by the Arabs with Kalashnikov rifles, the saviors who saved Yitzhak’s life, Yitzhak looked back.
The ‘neighbors’ who had just killed Yitzhak’s father and attacked the house, who had just been chasing after him, were scattered all over the place, killed by their fire.
Seeing the scene, Yitzhak, who had never been a very devout Muslim, nodded his head vigorously involuntarily.
“That’s right. I am a faithful servant of Allah and I just saved my life with his help.”
“Then, will you act with us from now on? little brother All Muslims are brothers. We Mujahideen are on the side of all Muslims fighting oppression.”
Yitzhak hesitated for a moment when the oldest Arab, who seemed to be the captain, made the offer, but then nodded.
with one condition.
“I will. Please save my mother instead, my mother is also a Muslim.”
“Do your best, brother. It is our ideal that all Sunni Muslims should leave their country and nation and unite under the teachings of Allah to fight all Christians and heretics.”
The Arab nodded like that, but perhaps they didn’t quite agree with each other, some of them frowned and whispered something to the chief.
If Yitzhak had only a little bit of hearing, and if he could understand Pashto, he would have known that it meant ‘that little brother is not Pashtun’.
But the chief Arab bruised his colleague for whispering.
“Why are you acting so short-sighted? If you are a true Muslim, you can think of all the ideas other than the Islamic community, nationalism, patriotism, totalitarianism… … You are well aware that all these are vain distinctions made by Western, Russian, and Chinese people, right? This little guy will do a great fight in jihad, I know.”
After making that conclusion, he reached out to Yitzhak again with a warm voice.
“Welcome to the Mujahideen. Our leader is the one who fights to lead the world under the light of Islam and Sharia (Islamic law) from the time we fight those Russians in Afghanistan. Now that we are expanding our forces, you will surely be delighted to see Muslims being persecuted like our brothers.”
It was the moment Yitzhak Milosevic entered al-qāʿidah, which was at the beginning of its establishment, and under the control of Osama bin Laden, a tall young man who gained independence from Abdullah, the teacher who led the mujahedin .