Volume 7 The Smoke of Gunfire on the Peninsula Chapter 7 The Crisis Lurks
On the 123rd, the DPRK carried out a "relocation" of 35 divisions deployed in South Hwanghae Province, North Hwanghae Province, and cities, and hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers left the barracks and headed for their destinations. Starting
There is no secrecy in the large-scale adjustment of military deployments.
The KZ19 battlefield surveillance planes patrolling over the Changbai Mountains were the first to raise the alarm, and then reconnaissance satellites that flew over the Korean Peninsula took thousands of photographs, and electronic reconnaissance ships patrolling the waters of the Yellow Sea intercepted thousands of radio communication signals within a few hours.
The ROK squadron quickly responded, and nearly 200,000 ROK army officers and men of eight divisions deployed near the "38th parallel" entered combat readiness, more than 100 warplanes took to the air to perform duty, and dozens of warships left the port urgently.
The situation suddenly became tense, and the clouds of war loomed over the entire Korean Peninsula.
It was not until the evening of the same day, when the North Korean troops on the defensive, arrived at their destinations one after another, that the situation eased somewhat.
At 21:30 Beijing time, Li Cunxun rushed to the head of state to attend a high-level emergency meeting.
Compared with the last time he presided over a meeting of senior leaders, Zhao Rundong's health is a little worse, not only does he look much older, but his spirit is not very concentrated.
After the meeting began, Premier Gu Weimin and Chief of the General Staff Xiang Linghui successively briefed the situation.
Prior to the military transfer, the DPRK informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic eight hours in advance in accordance with the relevant agreement, explaining the purpose of the military transfer. According to North Korea, the adjustment was mainly in response to the threat of South Korea sending an additional army division near the "ceasefire line" in May, which was a normal military movement. The DPRK does not want to start a war or aggravate the situation on the peninsula, but only to maintain its own security.
Xiang Linghui confirmed North Korea's claim. After the completion of military transfers. North Korea has not sent more troops to the "ceasefire line." Instead, one infantry division originally deployed in Kaesong was transferred to South Hwanghae Province and one infantry division was deployed in the southern part of Gangwon Province by about 50 kilometers to the north. According to the analysis of the General Staff. North Korea has reduced the number of front-line combat troops. Strengthen the strength of defenses in depth. Prepare for a possible surprise attack in a better position.
"The Korean ** team has been lifted from combat readiness. Fighter planes on patrol ground and warships departing from port returned to base one after another. "Li Cunxun is the third to make a report." It's just that. I don't think it's that simple. ”
At such military meetings. The "weight" of the head of the military intelligence bureau is very large.
Seeing that Zhao Rundong didn't mean to ask questions. Wang Yuanqing was late. said: "Can you elaborate a little more?" ”
"Four days ago. Our intelligence officers discovered that Major Ri Hyo-moon, a senior staff officer of the DPRK Armed Forces Command, had secret contacts with spies from a certain country. An investigation was then carried out in accordance with the protocol. Before finding out the truth. North Korea's intelligence and security agencies launched an operation.
To avoid losing the last clue. Our local intelligence agents had to take action. Li Cunxun's words are very serious. Also very cautious. It's time to say it. Don't say what you shouldn't say. "Proven after investigation. Ri Hyo-moon sold information on the deployment of North Korea's nuclear weapons to a spy from another country who pretended to be a spy at a special site of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. ”
Wang Yuanqing's expression immediately changed, and even Zhao Rundong was much more energetic.
Huang Guowei was even more shocked and said: "The Foreign Intelligence Bureau will not be interested in the intelligence of North Korea's nuclear weapons, and there is no need to instigate the senior staff officers of the North Korean Armed Forces Command." ”
Because the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is an intelligence agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Huang Guowei's reaction was a bit excessive.
Zhao Rundong let out a sigh and asked Li Cunxun, "Have you found out which country's spy it is?" ”
"The investigation is still ongoing, and it is initially speculated that it is a South Korean or Japanese spy." Li Cunxun hesitated a little and said, "Japanese spies are the most likely. ”
Zhao Rundong frowned slightly and looked at Wang Yuanqing.
"In this way, North Korea's military movements are not already determined, but ad hoc decisions." Wang Yuanqing pondered for a while and said, "North Korea's reduction of military forces near the 'ceasefire line' is a gesture of goodwill to South Korea in the hope that the increasingly tense situation on the peninsula will be eased." Although North Korea has not sent more troops to the north, Kim Chol-nam is adjusting his policy and raising his vigilance against us. Now it seems that North Korea's local actions have helped to maintain stability; In the long run, Kim Chol-nam's actions are likely to outweigh the losses. If South Korea and the United States come to the same conclusion, it will inevitably prompt Yoo to speed up military preparations, and the United States will also get in the way. If the judgment of the military intelligence bureau is correct, it was a Japanese spy who collected nuclear intelligence in Korea, which proves that Japan has ambitions to meddle in the affairs of the peninsula. As long as the United States and Japan jointly promote it, Liu Zongjun will soon take the first step towards reunifying the Korean Peninsula by force, triggering a peninsula war. ”
No one denied Wang Yuanqing's analysis, because of his level of strategic judgment, even Zhao Rundong sighed to himself.
It's just that no one, including Zhao Rundong, wants to mention "war".
Three years ago, when Japan was developing nuclear weapons with great fanfare, the United States vainly tried to seize the opportunity to get the Republic to go to an all-out war with Japan, and the Republic, which was cornered, could only make a big fuss about the Korean Peninsula. For three years, the Republic has done everything it can to prepare for the imminent outbreak of war on the peninsula.
The development of the world is often unexpected.
As the Western adage goes, "there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests".
The work of making submarine-launched ballistic missiles has suffered serious setbacks, 11 submarine-launched ballistic missiles have failed, Japan's work on developing thermonuclear weapons has not progressed smoothly, the heavy water plant will not be officially put into operation until March 2024, and the annual output is less than 50~:, Japan's strategic nuclear threat has been reduced to the point that the Republic can "endure". At the beginning of 2024, the Military Intelligence Agency obtained a very important piece of information that Japan has deployed only 20 X-11 ballistic missiles with single warheads, concentrated in underground silos in Daisetsuzan National Park in Hokkaido.
The biggest change came from North Korea.
Driven by the special economic zones, the DPRK has achieved significant results in reform and opening up, the domestic situation has stabilized, and its foreign policy has gradually eased.
The only destabilizing factor is South Korea, which is controlled by nationalist sentiments.
The situation has changed, and the republic has adjusted its policy.
As long as Japan did not pose a sufficiently large threat, the Republic had no reason to push for the Korean War. Normalizing the DPRK through economic means, easing the situation on the peninsula, and maintaining stability and peace in Northeast Asia have become the new goals of the Republic. Although it will take decades of efforts to solve the problem at its root, and any fluctuations in the period may undo the efforts of the Republic, it is worth any effort for peace compared to a war that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, sacrifices thousands of republicans, and has a major impact on the development of the Republic.
The problem is that not all countries want to solve problems by peaceful means.
Compared to three years ago, South Korea has overtaken Japan as the biggest destabilizing factor in Northeast Asia.
Park Tae-hyun was murdered by ultranationalists at his home in North Jeolla Province shortly after his impeachment, and the newly appointed Yoo Jong-chun is an out-and-out "Korean nation" politician.
Born in the United States to a poor family, Yoo returned to South Korea with his father at the age of 12 and completed his university studies through a part-time job.
The setbacks and hardships he suffered in his childhood not only gave Liu Zongchun an incomparably strong will and fighting spirit that was not afraid of difficulties, but also made him completely transform into a nationalist. As an adult, Yoo Jong-chun actively participated in various activities to promote nationalism, and was imprisoned for it, becoming a "national hero" in the eyes of Korean nationalists. While in prison, Yoo wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called "Korean Struggle," in which he explicitly mentioned that ethnic division was the root cause of the long-term poverty of the "Korean nation," and that only by completing national reunification could South Korea become a powerful country that would be feared by all enemies.
South Korea's crushing defeat in the Dokdo War paved the way for Yoo Jong-chun to come to power.
Although it is rumored that Yoo Jong-chun's mother is the granddaughter of South Korea's first president and great dictator Syngman Rhee, Yoo Jong-chun's political influence has not been affected. As South Korea vigorously develops armaments, promotes military reform, straightens out officialdom discipline, cracks down on economic oligarchs, and improves people's welfare, Yoo Jong-chun's status in South Korea is getting higher and higher, and his appeal is getting stronger and stronger. According to the evaluation of NN and other news media, as long as Yoo Jong-chun starts a war in the name of "national reunification", more than two-thirds of South Koreans will die for him!
For Liu Zongjun, all that was lacking was sufficient military force.
South Korea's all-out efforts to expand its military have had a very bad impact on neighboring countries. Although the Republic will not engage in an "arms race" with South Korea, North Korea and Japan have no choice but to heighten their vigilance. In order to deal with the threat posed by South Korea, the DPRK has accelerated the pace of upgrading its weapons and equipment, and has tried every means to obtain advanced weapons from various sources. At the end of 2022, Japan adjusted its armament development plan and improved the status of its navy and air force.
The United States has also become a "victim country".
Initially, the United States had great hopes for Yoo So-chun, after all, Yoo was born in the United States. As Yanagi embarked on the path of extremism, the United States changed its policy. In May 2023, the CIA planned a covert operation to create an explosion when Yoo Jong-chun was on his way to Busan to inspect the site, but Yoo Jong-chun temporarily changed his itinerary and escaped. Since then, the CIA has never been given the opportunity to get rid of Yoo So-chun.
In the first year, the United States changed its policy again and began to engage with Yanagi.
There is only one reason why the United States has changed its attitude: the upcoming election.
If the war breaks out before the election, the Republicans have a far better chance of winning the election than the Democrats. The problem is that South Korea was not prepared for war before the U.S. election, and Yoo Jong-chun did not intend to die for the Republican president of the United States who wanted to get rid of him, and with the active efforts of the Republic, the war did not break out. In the end, the Republicans lost the election, and the winning Democratic presidential candidate, Westwood, will enter the White House in January.
For South Korea, the benefits of a Democratic Party in the White House are even greater.
On the issue of stifling the republic, the Democrats are more radical than the Republicans.
The critical and lurking situation has made the countries involved highly nervous, otherwise North Korea's "conventional" military movements would not have provoked such a reaction.
It didn't take long for the discussion to be discussed, and Zhao Rundong announced the adjournment of the meeting.
Wang Yuanqing and Li Cunxun stayed, and the rest of the personnel left one after another.
Damn it**
During the closure period, every half an hour, the flickering brothers went crazy together, so that everyone was happy!
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