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North Korea’s failed coup.
“Did you really fail?”
It is said that Jang Pan-ho and his companions, who advanced to the President’s Palace, were stopped by the Labor Guard Hunters differently from their previous lives, fought a fierce battle, and eventually retreated from Pyongyang.
Unlike my previous life, the coup that started a year earlier was even a failure.
“Uh… .”
After all, the Jang Pan-ho or Kim clan are the people there, so even if the coup d’etat failed, it wouldn’t have much of an impact.
However, if the future continues to change in this way, someday there will be changes that will negatively affect me.
I thought for a while and said.
“Well, there’s no point in thinking about it.”
The situation has already changed, and above all, there is no way for me to intervene in North Korea affairs.
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Moreover, I am a person who has no interest in whether or not to be unified with North Korea.
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My only concern is the impact of the change on me and the countermeasures for it.
“Since the coup failed, the Kim family will have more control over it. Of course, a second or third coup could happen again.”
And the effect it has on me… also no
I said with a smirk.
“Let’s turn it off.”
Pan-ho Jang, who reigned as a behind-the-scenes ruler of the North Korean government in his previous life, simply disappeared.
Then I heard the panelists on TV talking about this North Korean coup.
-Although this coup failed, this is nothing more than proof that the North Korean government’s grip on Hunters is not perfect. This can be interpreted to mean that the instability of the North Korean regime has increased, and I believe that the North Korean government will collapse in the near future… .
“Yes or no.”
The moment I was about to turn off the TV because my interest had already disappeared.
Suddenly another breaking news appeared.
“… uh?”
I looked at the breaking news and said with a puzzled expression.
“Pan-ho Jang… defection… ?”
* * *
-Even though the revolution ended in failure, the grand dream of me and our comrades will come true someday.
An interview with Pan-ho Jang, who crossed the armistice and crossed the border into North Korea.
“… Wow.”
Pan-ho Jang, who had even heard that he was the king of North Korea as a behind-the-scenes ruler of the new North Korean regime that had pushed out the Kim family, came to South Korea.
He also led more than 100 subordinate hunters.
Pan-ho Jang in the TV said with a firm expression.
– The will of the people for freedom is never broken!
What is people’s freedom?
Knowing the future of Pan-ho Jang, I am just thrilled.
Just as the guilds are stingy with taxes, it was just a coup d’etat caused by the North Korean regime’s coercive attitude and inflamed payments.
“Jang Pan-hora… .”
The Hunter’s ability has nothing to do with the country’s economic power.
That’s why hunters from underdeveloped countries all over the world are flocking to America.
In that sense, Pan-Ho Jang is a talented person.
Because Jang Pan-ho was a top hunter who reigned in North Korea until the moment I died.
Likewise, the hundreds of hunters brought by Jang Pan-ho must also be among the best hunters in North Korea.
In other words, normally, they are all talented people who are coveted as members of the guild.
But the problem is their attitude.
“Are you going to listen to me?”
I can’t.
They are the people who caused a coup in North Korea, which is called the Kim family, but there is no way that you can bow your head gently to a businessman in South Korea.
Besides, that’s not the only problem.
The North Korean government, which succeeded in deterring the coup, will unconditionally demand the repatriation of Jang Pan-ho and his subordinates from South Korea.
It’s nothing else and I’m a traitor to my own country, and there’s no way I can let it go.
Something needs to be done about that.
“Hmm.”
While I was thinking about it for a while, I got a call from a government official.
Wanting to have new information, he said while pressing the call button.
“I got a call.”
– Chairman Jung, did you see the interview?
“You mean Pan-ho Jang?”
-Yes.
“I saw it. Well… What a wonderful person You burn yourself with worry for the people.”
– That Jang Pan-ho is requesting an interview with the president.
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Me?
“Me?”
-Yes.
“For what?”
– I don’t know. I’m just repeating that I’ll tell you when we meet… .
“Oh.”
In the hunter world, I am quite famous not only in Korea but also abroad.
It is a situation that is recognized as the best in the world in terms of analysis of attack information.
But that was limited to dungeons.
Pan-ho Jang is currently attracting more attention as the coup d’etat coup than Hunter.
What is the reason that such a Pan-ho Jang wants to meet me directly?
– Can you help me? Pan-ho Jang’s cooperation is needed to obtain information inside North Korea.
I’ll listen to what Pan-ho Jang wants and get information.
“Where would you like to go?”
Let’s see what happened once.
I was just curious as well.
What kind of character is Jang Pan-ho?
And whether it’s worth using.
* * *
“This is it.”
As the person who is currently standing at an important point in inter-Korean relations is Jang Pan-ho, the place we arrived at under the guidance of an NIS agent.
“Agent.”
The opponent is Pan-ho Jang, a top-ranking hunter in North Korea, and Jae-jin Lee, who came with me, because I can’t tell if the opponent has a crush on me or if he has malicious intent.
“I have to go in alone, isn’t it?”
“Of course. Pan-ho Jang wanted to be single, but we refused.”
“Good job.”
I said with a smile.
“Because the wall is small, I would have refused to go in alone. Jaejin.”
“Yes, sir.”
Jaejin Lee, who still calls me the president, even when I was in the CEO position and after ascending to the position of chairman.
Just like back then, when I was a store owner with dozens of employees and an employee of the store.
I wonder if that name came from Jaejin Lee’s idea of specializing the relationship between Jaejin Lee and me.
“Let’s go in.”
As I entered the room, all I saw was Pan-ho Jang sitting on a chair.
‘that’s interesting.’
I have to say that the feeling is a bit new.
I’ve always only seen the majestic figure on TV, but it’s so shabby sitting in a chair like this.
I said as I sat on the chair across from me.
“Nice to meet you, Pan-Ho Jang.”
At my words, Pan-ho Jang looked at me and said.
“Jung In-soo?”
“you’re right. I am Insoo Jung, the Chairman of the Jungin Group.”
Then, Pan-ho Jang’s face is distorted.
“… Jung In-soo.”
Hmm.
I feel something hostile.
“I really wanted to meet you. Who messed up our revolutionary plan.”
“… Who is the mastermind?”
Is it because of me?
“What do you mean?”
* * *
“Ahh.”
Now I understand.
Why did they advance their plans by a year earlier and why did they fail?
And it was all because of me.
“… The escorts’ outings were too strong. More than we expected.”
I used to monopolize skill stones in exchange for providing strategy information by inviting guilds from around the world to create C-class dungeons.
In the process, there was friction between the secret guild of the Chinese government and the private guild, but anyway, the attack information was transferred to China, and this information was transmitted to the North Korean government.
Then, as if I was playing with hunters and guilds with information, the North Korean government monopolized this attack information and actively used it.
Fortunately, other countries have overcome the lack of information to some extent through competition and exchanges, but North Korea is completely cut off.
In such a country, only the government monopolizes the attack information, so how good would it be to use it?
Naturally, in the process, the SS, who should have betrayed the Kim family, was completely on the side of the Kim family, and their skills grew overwhelmingly.
The coup d’état a year earlier was also caused by a sense of crisis due to the continuing power gap.
“… Obviously, all the hunters who had resisted the Kim family until then turned around.”
In a previous life, the SS simply received the favor of the Kim family, and his skills as a hunter would have been lower than that of other hunters.
As if the government had difficulties in mass-producing national hunters.
However, the situation has been completely reversed by information monopoly.
Failure was a natural result.
“From what I hear, it is not that I am not responsible. But that wasn’t the outcome I intended. Do you have any resentment against me?”
At my words, Pan-ho Jang sighed and said.
“… It would be a lie if there was no resentment. But I’m not so ignorant about it. That doesn’t mean that dead comrades will come back to life. I was just curious Who the hell are you Who gets such perfect information?”
Pan-ho Jang is deeply sorry for the lives of his comrades who lost their lives in the process of the coup.
I looked at Jang Pan-ho and said.
“In an interview, it was said that he stood up for the freedom of the people… Are you serious?”
“Isn’t that natural?”
I thought about it.
‘Are you serious?’
It looks very different from the previous life.
Perhaps Jang Pan-ho was also a person who started with high ideals at first, but eventually became degenerate?
Of course, that doesn’t mean I feel sorry for it.
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‘this… Would you just use it and eat it?’
It seems more flexible than I thought and has my own beliefs.
However, what the Jungin Guild needs is not someone who has beliefs, but someone who can coexist with me.
In that sense, Pan-ho Jang seemed to be able to be used in other ways.
“Are there only 100 other comrades who came with you?”
“I don’t know the rest. There will be hunters hiding in the Republic, and there will be people who have crossed over to China.”
Then there are at least one hundred to several hundred, and there are still remnants of power in North Korea.
“If, really, if you have the strength to try again, would you do it again?”
“… again?”
“That’s right.”
“If the opportunity comes, I will do it.”
The will was confirmed.
‘What a person with beliefs needs is the power to carry out their beliefs.’
I’m going to raise Pan-Ho Jang here, and then make another coup d’état in North Korea.
In the end, the reason the Kim family succeeded in deterring the coup was because of the information I spread.
So that means I can choose success or failure according to my will.
And Pan-ho Jang, who pushed the Kim family out with my help, can have a huge influence in North Korea, and if used well in the near-death situation in North Korea, he can gain enormous benefits.
‘Even if I fail anyway, I have nothing to lose.’
Rather, it is a good opportunity to influence even North Korea, which was thought to be a discarded hand.
Besides, even if all of this fails, Pan-ho Jang is a top hunter in name and truth.
No matter where he goes, whether in South Korea or North Korea, there is nothing wrong with being friendly as someone who will succeed wherever he goes.
‘For that to happen, I have to make Pan-ho Jang completely depend on me.’
Even after a successful coup d’etat, he wants to keep his friendship with me.
There is nothing more rewarding than being friendly with the dictator of a dictatorship.
Even if I just push it from behind, it’s not particularly difficult.
I thought for a while and said.
“Isn’t there Dongjin Lee among your comrades?”
No matter how much he has gone through his past life, he doesn’t know everything about the coup.
However, when it comes to North Korea, the Republic of Korea is sensitive enough that the Kim family can report health anomalies in the news with just one cough.
After the coup, I have heard the names of Jang Pan-ho, who is a close aide to the new North Korean regime, and the names of the second and third people.
“this… easting?”
Pan-ho Jang’s pupils shake.
“How about Dongjin… .”
“Yeom Seong-gu.”
“To the scriptures?!”
As much as the coup was planned, the organization would have been secretly organized.
However, I was surprised to hear the names of the coup d’etat executives, not even myself, who came up with their own names.
“How did you know that you didn’t even tell the NIS?”
“Analysis is ultimately based on the information you have. I am very sensitive to these issues, so I have quite a bit of information.”
who else was there… .
“Lim Chang-sik.”
Then, Pan-ho Jang’s face is distorted.
“That traitor bastard!!”
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He’s a traitor.
“Did you betray me? I didn’t know that. It must be something inside North Korea, so the information transmission is a bit slow.”
Jang Pan-ho said in an urgent voice at my words.
“Can you tell if your comrades are still alive?”
I shook my head and said.
“It is difficult right now. The boundaries are so tight right now. But I’ll check it out when I get a chance.”
“Thank you. Thank you!”
I know not only the strategy information, but also the executives of the organization that moved secretly.
Would this be enough to appeal to me?
“Mr. Pan-ho Jang.”
“Yes.”
“I can’t go into detail here, but I really like Jang Pan-ho. I will help you.”
Then Pan-ho Jang said with a blank expression.
“Are you going to help? What do you mean?”
“Anything.”
I said with a smile.
“Trust me. Just as the Kim family gained strength thanks to me, on the other hand, Jang Pan-ho can also gain strength.”
* * *
After leaving Pan-ho Jang behind, an NIS agent approached me and said with a surprised expression.
“How the hell did the people you just talked to know?”
I was also eavesdropping.
“It’s because I’m pretty good at information.”
“Even though… .”
I said with a smile.
“No more comments.”
“Come on, wait a minute… !”
I left the NIS agent behind and pulled out my cell phone and called someone.
– Chairman Jung.
It was Cho Man-cheol, the chief of staff at the Blue House.
“Chief, I just met Jang Pan-ho and came out. Could you please let me know how things are going?”
Then Jo Man-cheol, who was silent for a while, said:
-… That’s right. There seems to be a statement announcement soon anyway, so there’s no point in hiding it. First, the North Korean side has been unofficially demanding repatriation.
He is the main culprit of a coup d’état aimed at the president of the country.
For North Korea, a national traitor that must be caught.
However, it was the right choice for Jang Pan-ho to return to Korea.
“What did you say?”
– Of course I refused.
From the perspective of the South Korean government, it makes no sense to meekly comply with North Korea’s demands.
Especially since the current ruling party has been at odds with North Korea as a Conservative party.
The option of sending Pan-ho Jang and his crew back here would not have been in the government’s consideration in the first place.
The moment you choose to return it, you will receive a huge evacuation from the existing supporters and lawmakers in the ruling party.
Rather, some Koreans will think of Jang Pan-ho as a hero.
A fighter who resisted the dictatorship of the Kim family.
It doesn’t make sense to send a fighter like that back.
However.
“You must be in trouble.”
-… … .
For South Korea, North Korea is an ever-present uncertainty.
Just to the point of thanking you for being still.
However, due to Pan-ho Jang’s defection, North Korea strongly protests, and the possibility of an armed provocation cannot be ruled out.
I said raising the corners of my lips.
“Can I help you?”
-Help?
“I heard that there was a circumstance that information about dungeon raids had flowed to North Korea. Also through China. At the time of the contract, I clearly proposed a ban on leaks to other countries, but this is a violation of the contract.”
North Korea succeeded in deterring the coup thanks to information on the attack through China.
At this time, I intervene and use this as an excuse to pressure China and North Korea.
When the next new dungeon appears, the Chinese guild will no longer be invited.
Of course, North Korea and China will protest and deny it.
Of course, this pressure card cannot completely overturn the huge and complex diplomatic tables between China and North Korea.
But it can be used as a minimum check card.
From the perspective of the Kim family, who had fun with the exclusive dungeon strategy information, the inability to provide additional information is a big bad thing.
“We will move separately from the repatriation of Pan-ho Jang. The government will mediate moderately, as the contract will only sting and sag. It’s not a perfect solution, but I think it can be passed smoothly rather than just continuing to stand up against each other.”