George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 265

“Partisans! Partisans in my twilight years! God damn it! I can never forgive this! As if not being able to eat garlic wasn’t bad enough, now partisans!”

Partisans in 21st century South Korea! What on earth is going on? Even though unification has happened and we are clearly one nation, the North is still unfamiliar to the people of the South. Maybe the older generation who lived in the North before the division are somewhat familiar with it, but that’s about it.

But are the elderly the ones leading the country? No, it’s always the youth. This refers to ‘culture,’ not politics. The politics that truly lead the country have nothing to do with generations. It’s only the vested interests that lead.

Anyway, it feels like it’s about time for a completely integrated culture to blossom in some way, but that’s not the case. The government has been using post-war reconstruction and public safety as an excuse to restrict travel, so it’s been limited to some over-saturation of North Korea travel packages and the popularity of songs.

Completely free travel still feels far away. However, it’s not like travel is completely impossible, and the tourism of foreigners who have taken note of the fact that the country is unified is generating huge tourism revenue. That’s what’s keeping us afloat for now.

You’d think they wouldn’t come if public safety was unstable, but the North was a place where there were tourists even when the North Korean communist regime was still intact. Anyway, apart from these tourists who come, public safety is not good at all. The pro-Baekdu bloodline forces [referring to those loyal to the Kim dynasty] that scattered as the North Korean regime collapsed have become cancerous partisans.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the current South Korea has the strongest military power in the history of the Korean peninsula. The quality has fallen far short of expectations due to the side effects of the conscription system, defense corruption, and the outdated thinking of so-called ‘star generals,’ but the size is truly one of the best in the world.

“Providing optical equipment to only some units is unfair, and mechanical sights don’t break down.”

The example that best shows what ‘low quality’ means here is the UN military canteen that was actually used during the Korean War, along with the reuse of guns and the non-introduction of reflex sights. Some people mention the cost issue, but if that money was used properly without leaking in the middle, there would be no problem with the introduction.

There are disadvantages, but originally, if the advantages of equipment outweigh the disadvantages, the disadvantages can be ignored in peacetime. Besides, the generals don’t seem to understand or are just stubborn, and they don’t know how to distinguish between telescopic sights and reflex sights.

In addition, accidents were happening due to serious gun malfunctions during operations. Jamming is a common occurrence, but there were many cases where all the bullets in a 30-round magazine could not be fired and got stuck, and there were even guns that had to be operated like 20th-century battle rifles with single shots. This was not because guns were not imported, but simply because they were used for too long.

Anyway, what’s important now is that the South Korean military, whose quantity is second to none, is suppressing partisans in a joint training concept with the US military, no matter what the quality is. On the surface, it was a peaceful unification through consultation with the Communist Party after suppressing the rebels, and the partisans who were waging guerrilla warfare deep in Mount Kumgang were a blemish that the government wanted to hide from the foreign media as much as possible.

Still, now that effective rule has begun, it’s fortunate that even if partisans come out now, they’re just treated as another civil war. Besides, they have never been found outside of Mount Kumgang. The reason why this is possible is none other than because the entire mountain is surrounded by ‘quantity’ without even a gap.

“Three steps to the left!”

“Line up! If partisans pass through that wide gap, the entire squad will be held responsible! Held responsible! Do you understand?”

Human wave tactics were the specialty of the Chinese army, but that doesn’t mean the South Korean army couldn’t use them. Considering the value of Mount Kumgang, it was impossible to bomb it, but it wasn’t like they could be caught by bombing. They dug tunnels and sharpened their teeth while eating tree roots.

“I’ll show the power of the people to the imperialist bastards!”

Considering that the most important thing for partisans is supply, this was not a good thing for the partisans. Besides, even if they wanted to get help from the residents, they couldn’t get direct help because of the rapidly increasing number of CCTVs in North Korea and the ROK [Republic of Korea] army guarding the villages.

It wasn’t that there were no sympathizers, but civilian access to Mount Kumgang itself was impossible. And the fact that there were no gaps was not an exaggeration. Under the political reason that the partisans had to be suppressed within half a year at the latest and the determination of the command to do so, ‘sentries’ were set up at 3-step intervals, and they were receiving help from retired officers who had participated in the anti-communist operations.

In addition, not only combat helicopters but also the US military’s latest reconnaissance aircraft, Global Hawk, as well as drones that were introduced in the Middle East were operated in the operation, and they became food for combat helicopters or ground forces that slowly drove up from the bottom of the mountain as soon as they were discovered.

Besides, these partisans had received military training, but in the end, they were civilians with outdated illegal firearms, and once they were discovered, they were easily suppressed.

And besides, there were those who gave up being partisans along the way and sought the light by surrendering. They had to go to jail, but at least they didn’t die.

Returning to the tourism issue, most of the foreigners who came to visit were Americans. First of all, many American companies came in, and the red Coca-Cola logo and McDonald’s golden arches were hung in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang. In particular, Coca-Cola’s red logo was a parody of the North Korean flag.

“Wow! Unification decision!”

The advertisement that a person who was a top official in the Communist Party tasted Coca-Cola and then betrayed Kim Jong-il and decided to unify was very famous in the United States. And there was a completely identical advertisement in Korea, except for the actors. However, the difference was that this side really used a person who had been at the top of the North Korean Communist Party.

These advertising strategies were like looking at the Cold War, but in the case of Korea, modern nationalism, which was completed thanks to unification, worked, and in the case of the United States, the sense of superiority that they felt every time worked properly.

“How long does the United States have to help others! Take care of the domestic situation! I earn a living day by day! Isn’t the gap between the rich and the poor the same!”

“I ate a hamburger yesterday and I’m going to eat fried chicken tomorrow! We also have the right to eat fresh food!”

That’s not to say that there were no voices calling for cuts in aid, but anyway, it wasn’t coming out on a large scale yet. They were still completely immersed in the sense of superiority that the United States dominated the world.

This was doubled when a peace agreement was reached in Israel under the leadership of the United States this time. Internal affairs were none of their business to a people hungry for vanity. Of course, there are people who dig deep, but there are not so many people who dig deep in the United States.

Besides, the Israel case was something that even experts were wondering about, and even Bush himself was wondering about. From the people’s point of view, it could only be seen that Israel had knelt before the authority of the United States.

And in reality, it was somewhat similar. For nearly half a century, all plausible adversaries have disappeared, except for the EU, which is working hard to expand its power. They wanted to ride on the United States for their political life.

It was a double-edged sword to anyone, but he was in the mood to do anything to revive the economy, since he was going down anyway.

“The Israeli economy comes first! Safe capital! A life without terror!”

Besides, as a result, Palestine and Israel were not equal halves. Israel occupied an overwhelmingly large territory under the name of effective control in addition to its overwhelming military power. The territory occupied by Palestine was ridiculously smaller than in the original history.

‘Bastards. They’re all bastards.’

The person gnashing his teeth while watching these series of overseas affairs was none other than Vladimir Putin. After being helplessly hit by a large-scale intelligence operation that sacrificed most of the existing US intelligence network, things gradually went wrong, and recently, he was about to fight with Saudi Arabia instead of the United States.

Not militarily, but in the oil war. Predicting the drop in oil prices, he collected as much oil as possible in advance. What did Russia do with the oil it had collected? It released it in large quantities when Saudi Arabia was slightly weakened after a few months, and simply hit Saudi Arabia in the head.

In a word, ‘Weaklings, don’t mess with me.’ Saudi Arabia depends on oil for the country itself, while Russia does not at all. However, in the case of Russia, although the military budget has been reduced to some extent, Russia was still a large army in the eyes of other countries, and the navy was rather allocated more budget even as the army was reduced, and began to develop stealth destroyers.

And a cold wind always blew in the Kremlin Palace, freezing the people working in the Kremlin Palace. Bush, who is publicly called a rival, was so honest with his emotions that when he got angry, he would rampage so much that no one but the chief of staff could calm him down, but Putin muttered quietly to himself.

Once you get angry, it’s good to be cool-headed, but if you get cool-headed and the answer comes out right away, would that be a human being, a goblin’s club that comes out with anything you say? And Putin, even though he doesn’t look like a human, is definitely a human.

He was already having a hard time just competing with Saudi Arabia for low oil prices, but even the EU was putting pressure on him. China, which could be called a friendly country, was in a recession and was being pressured by India and Japan at the same time. In this situation, there was no way he could compete with the United States. No, competition had stopped since the Cold War, but even so, the fact that it was once a country that divided the world was Russia’s pride.

“It would be better to withdraw from East Iraq this time. Or is it?”

When Putin said this, the ministers said without exception.

“We will follow whatever Your Excellency says.”

Dmitry Medvedev had become the de facto number two in Russia due to Putin, who felt the need to solidify his position in the face of the increasingly unfavorable world situation, and he always followed Putin. Perhaps even when he becomes president in the future, he will not be able to escape Putin’s shadow.

He could go high, but he didn’t have the ability to maintain that position.

“Then it’s decided. We’re withdrawing from Iraq as of this moment.”