Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 129
Chapter 45. 1,400% and 140%
“… … The essence of this recruitment operation is the revolutionary idea proposed by the leader of our republic, Comrade Kim Jeong-hwan, who, as you well know, is respected and admired not only within the republic but also by the people of the world due to the leadership that made the decision to revolutionary reform and opening. It started by signing Lee Jong-su and the revolutionary fighters of the Reconnaissance General Bureau were amazed from the moment they first heard about the strategy of recruiting the best foreign brains into our republic through capitalist methods… … .”
“Comrade Lee, I appreciate the compliment, but now that I know, let me just say the point. So, is it a success?”
“Ah yes! I see. Hmmm… … .”
Actually, it’s not something I’m proud of to say out loud.
It’s a good word, it’s a spying operation. To be honest, it’s not spying on a friendly country.
And Jeong Hwan only provided the idea, but it would not have been possible without the connections and experiences of the Frunze clan, including Ri Jong-su and Baek Seung-cheol, during the Soviet era.
Li Jong-su, the head of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, who had been paying tribute to the leader as a courtesy to Jeong-hwan’s comments, coughed in vain and briefly recounted the conclusion of the ‘subsidization operation’ that had been carried out in secret by the General Reconnaissance Bureau since last year.
“Successful, Comrade General Secretary. Casinos managed by our General Bureau of Reconnaissance, located in Vladivostok, Rason, Dandong… … So, Russian aviation, rocket, and logistics scientists asked for the bait that ‘Branch Office No. 77’ solved. Now all that remains is to pull the fishing line and bring it to the Republic.”
“Uh-huh… … uh… … uh… … !!!!”
“Damn it, Anatoly! Wake!”
“My chips… … my money… … my dollars… … . Hey, what kind of money is this… … With this money, you can go right out of the military and buy an American penthouse in the heart of Moscow, and fill your dacha’s pantries with the finest vodka and caviar… … .”
“Stop it! this is my friend! Forget it now!”
“Засранец (you bastard)! Looks like I’m forgetting now, now! You’re telling me to watch the money we just lost and forget it right next to you, huh?”
Anatoly Ferminov, who had not yet escaped from the shock, heard a mournful groan from his mouth, and one of his co-workers, who was at least awake, tried to comfort him, but in fact, his voice was trembling.
It was because they were similar to Anatolyna and suffered a severe blow mentally.
In conclusion, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Ferminov and his friends lost all their chips at the casino.
One friend was stolen from baccarat, another from roulette, and another friend, like Anatoly, robbed hold’em poker money and piles of chips.
Even the friend who was the most cautious among them, went into hold mode and played the slot machine as soon as he won the first few rounds, but the result was the same.
Until just a moment ago, the piles of red and black chips piled up like a mountain still flickered before my eyes, but all of a sudden they disappeared like a mirage, like a sandcastle on the shore collapsing.
It was like being possessed by magic.
“I can’t end it like this. I must have lost because I didn’t have enough money earlier! I have to go back in somehow and sit on the board!”
“Hey, Anatoly, are you crazy? To what extent are you going to be satisfied?”
“Sergei, you are the one that I think is crazy! This is our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Do you think there will ever be a second chance in the future to escape this damn military life and turn your life around? Are you going to live on this salary until you die? No, looking at the current military service situation and Yeltsin inspiration, I doubt that he will even pay that salary properly!”
“Yeah, that’s it, but… … !!”
“If we go back here and now like losers, we will regret this day for the rest of our lives and suck our fingers! If you miss the chance this goddess of fortune has given you now, you will never have another chance to touch this kind of money again!”
Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Ferminov and his military associates had one thing in common (besides stealing all their money): that they had a high rank in the casino they accidentally entered, as if they had reached out to the gods. It was.
The beginning that led to all this was very simple.
-thank you for your effort. Comrades, you’ve come a long way from Moscow to here in Vladivostok. Let’s have some fun with this.
-yes? What is this? comrades?
-Ah, hasn’t our Joseon reform and opening up following our Russian comrades these days? So, capitalists from the West come in and build hotels and casinos every day. Among them, a businessman in the United States lent his name to us, so we started a joint venture here in Vladivostok together with the people of our republic. Here’s a gleaming building just a few steps back from the hotel.
-Then this is… … .
– This is the stake used in the casino. As you may know, we members of the Workers’ Party of Korea and military officers of the People’s Army are very wary of gambling because of the rules of conduct or something. Ugh, our general secretary is a person who only read texts and then became a leader, so he is completely stuck on the main line… … . Oops! If I say this wrong, I go to the goal… … Anyway, we paid, but we couldn’t enter the casino, so wouldn’t it be amazing? That’s why I’m giving away some leftover chips as a service to foreign comrades who need a taste of capitalism. haha.
Anatoly Fermikov graduated from one of Russia’s leading military universities and was assigned to the Strategic Missile Rocket Army as a technical officer engaged in research and development of long-range radar and military satellites.
The friend who was stolen while playing baccarat also followed a similar route and was a researcher at the Federal Space Agency. The friend who had a bitter taste at Hold’em Poker was working at the design bureau of Mikoyan (Микоян), and the slot machine side was in Sukhoi (Сухой) to develop a technical demonstration. was engaged
It was just a few weeks ago that they had a great time in Vladivostok with a warm welcome at the ‘Eurasia Aviation Forum’ jointly hosted by Kimchaek University of Technology and Moscow State Aviation University in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
As if to prove that North Korea, which was secretly ridiculed even within the communist bloc, is changing with the recent change of leader and the rapid growth of the national economy, the drinks and food were delicious and everyone in attendance was friendly.
In particular, as if to show off the standard of living in the two countries that began to reverse after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the North Korean side paid all the expenses, including hotel rentals, so Anatoly and other Russian participants took off their belts for a long time and enjoyed high-quality vodka and food to their heart’s content.
-Говно (Damn), that’s why leaders are so important. In the same way, reform and opening up, no, to be honest, we did it first. What is the difference? Boris Yeltsin, the drunkard, and Yegor, that rip-and-death guy did what else besides raising prices by 150 times?
-Shh! My friend, be careful with your mouth!
Anatoly’s words were, in fact, representing the current economic situation in Russia and the dissatisfaction and secret jealousy of the Russian participants that day.
And towards the end of the ceremony, a North Korean officer smiles at the drunken Anatoly and his colleagues and nudges casino chips with a faint grumbling about their leader. It had entered the casino like a lighthouse.
“… … and? After being generous to the engineers and scientists who are so dissatisfied with their country’s plight?”
“What’s next? From the moment they opened the door to the gambling room, those comrades had been in the palm of our reconnaissance bureau. From the casino owner to the dealer to the cheater, they were all our agents or something, subcontracting in capitalist terms, local collaborators. Isn’t it the bread that you got in your hand?”
“Local collaborators?”
When Jeonghwan tilted his head to the question, this time Baek Seung-cheol answered, not Lee Jong-soo.
“Russian bullies… … It’s because they’re mafia. A lot of the KGB comrades we knew went to the shade because it was difficult to make a living after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I was able to hire him at a decent price because the amount of support was generous.”
Baek Seung-cheol said with a bitter smile as if it was ironic that the position was reversed after only a few years.
The importance of the supreme dignitary was so great that the supreme dignity directly took care of it, so not only his subordinate, Ri Jong-su, director of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, but also Baek Seung-cheol, a diplomat from another affiliation, stepped out and helped out with one arm.
However, Baek Seung-cheol, who personally took care of the duke after setting up a branch office in Rason, Moscow, and Vladivostok, was personally shocked.
It was because there were a lot of faces Baek Seung-cheol knew among the ‘subcontractors’ he met in the area, the Russians who had once heard the KGB and the military.
In the end, he forgot his promise to treat them thoroughly and publicly, and ended up asking one of the former high-ranking KGB agents.
-… … Comrade (comrades), I am Baek Seung-cheol, who once went to Frunze and studied under the comrades. How the hell did you get to these places? Why did those proud Soviet military officers fall into these back alley thugs and thugs who deal in drugs?
– Heh heh… … Hey, comrade Baek, did you think we could live without a paycheck? We also have families to feed, and we are the heads of households with savings and insurance. Of course we also once had pride in our patriotism, our Soviet Union and our socialist ideals. But after that country trampled on our patriotism in this way… … Then I just became a thug. heh heh
-… … .
-Russia is all about money, no, it’s all about dollars. The ruble is almost a bit better than a piece of paper. I started my military career when I was seventeen. If there were a hundred people who started military service at that age… … There are only one or two people living without worrying about bread right now. How did the army of this country get to this point? The good guys immigrate and the bad guys get discharged and become the mafia. Those who seize the opportunity and get a seat at a state-owned enterprise well on the bandwagon… … Eat well and live well. Now that this has come to pass, Comrade Baek, please give me a cigarette. It’s even better if you don’t delay your salary and pay it well.
It was shocking to see the Soviet Union devastated by Baek Seung-cheol, who spent his military days in the Soviet Union.
At one time, he was subordinated to the KGB and served as a spy in his homeland Joseon, but in just a few years, the fearful and fearful KGB officers of the Soviet spy agency in the foreign country collapsed in an instant, and now he had to wait for his orders to come down. .
And he could once again understand why Jeong-hwan bowed his head and crouched to hold hands to the former adversary of the United States, earning foreign currency and trying to grow the nation’s enterprise.
Read at noblemtl.com
Now, I have come to realize once again that the war of the future is not only fought with gun bombs and missiles, but with money and economic power.Whether he knows Baek Seung-cheol’s inner feelings or not, Ri Jong-su continued explaining to Jeong-hwan.
“First of all, when the comrades sit down and start playing, for the first few days or so, they make a lot of money as if they had suckers in their hands. Of course, this is the result of our general office telling the dealer or the windman to lose it on purpose, or the machine slightly tweaking the odds… … In any case, if you do this for a few days, your comrades, who have been playing for the rest of their lives and keeping a distance, will be engrossed in the game and will not be able to get out. If you just sit there and earn dollars, why not?”
“Considering the current economic situation in Russia and the salaries of soldiers, it must be an even more irresistible temptation. therefore?”
“The Russian comrades who had been making money like that for a few weeks started to lose money little by little at some point, when the officer in charge of our branch office decided that the time had come. At first I didn’t know… … One day, two days, three days, four days, one week… … . You’ll find your lost money, and the bigger your hand, the faster it will fall. And at some point when we lose everything and become trash, then one of our general agents approaches and delivers the final blow.”
“okay? What blow?”
“What… … Wasn’t it cool? It looks like your pockets are in trouble, would you like to borrow some money? And if this happens a few times and the debt grows to an unmanageable level, it’s like a caught fish. At first, if you ask for insider information or technology, and you want to be completely desperate, then you are afraid to reveal our identity and make a real offer. ‘I thought, ‘If you don’t want to pay off your debts like this, do you want to work in another country that treats you better and gives you a lot of money?'”
“… … Is it really that easy to get it out?”
“At first, you can start with less objectionable information, such as the name of an internal commander or personal information, and increase the importance little by little. If it doesn’t work, I’ll take a picture of the secret data being taken, and if you don’t comply with our request, I can say that I’ll send this picture to work. It’s hard to start betraying one’s motherland, but after that, it’s easy… … Please trust me and Comrade Ri Jong-su, Comrade General Secretary.”
“Hmm, you speak as if you’ve experienced it yourself, comrade Seungcheol Baek?”
“Uh, uh… … !! Hmmm, hum… … .”