My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 617

Of course, there are still some unsavory aspects to the process, but at least they don’t commit crimes against ordinary citizens. Or, at least, they’re not supposed to.

“Because the police step in.”

“Ah, I’ve heard that too. The problem in modern society isn’t large, established organizations, but small or emerging ones, right?”

“That’s right. Those organizations commit crimes against the public without hesitation.”

They extort and even openly make demands of businesses. Surprisingly, the guys with big builds, tattoos, and menacing threats that people imagine aren’t that common in large organizations. Even if they exist, they’re usually just disposable subordinates.

“Most modern gangsters would rather be the head of a snake than the tail of a dragon.”

“So, you’re saying acknowledge them and crack down on them?”

“Yes.”

“On entities that don’t exist?”

“Does that matter?”

Park Do-joon shrugged. Substance doesn’t matter. What matters is that the public knows the police are working to crack down on them.

“But in China……”

“Yes. China would be uncomfortable with that. But why would China be uncomfortable?”

“Huh?”

“The China United Front. Why would China be uncomfortable with them?”

“Because they tarnish their image, even though they don’t exist.”

“Yes, then it wouldn’t be difficult to declare them traitors in China. Because they don’t exist. Because they’re terrorists.”

Listening to Park Do-joon, Yoo Tae-min realized what Park Do-joon was saying.

“Whether they exist or not doesn’t matter. What matters is that Korea and China unite to crack down on them?”

“Correct.”

The reason people are criticizing the police and the government now is because a terrorist attack occurred, but they can’t identify or track the perpetrators.

“Sunbae [senior colleague or mentor], that’s a good idea, but there’s still a problem.”

“Hong Woo-jong, you mean?”

“Yes.”

“Unfortunately, we can’t crack down on him together. Realistically, there’s not enough evidence or witnesses to do so.”

Even if he gave money, it would have been transferred through overseas accounts as slush funds. So, proving that Hong Woo-jong is behind it is impossible.

“But as an investigation, we can leave suspicions open.”

“Suspicions?”

“Yes, a prominent domestic politician is involved in this case.”

“……!”

When they hear that, people will initially be excited and try to find out who it is.

“There are stages to anger, like all psychological adaptations.”

At first, they’re angry and feel sorry for the victim. But as time passes, emotions gradually subside, and reason emerges.

“In this case, what reason wants is the arrest of the culprit.”

Emotion ends with feeling sorry for the victim, but after that emotion is exhausted, reason deals with the problem with a focus on one’s own safety.

“Moreover, Hong Woo-jong is from a wealthy chaebol [large family-owned conglomerate] family. There’s relatively little reason to worry about him.”

He’s a member of the National Assembly and represents Korea’s chaebols. Furthermore, Hong Woo-jong didn’t suddenly become an orphan after his parents passed away.

He’s already an adult socially, and in fact, many people lose their parents at that age.

Of course, losing parents in a tragic bombing is rare, but apart from that, there’s minimal room for sympathy.

“So, what will people think from that point on?”

“That’s……”

After a long thought, Lee Ji-soo’s face hardened.

“They’ll suspect who the unidentified domestic politician is.”

“That’s right. And the first target they’ll suspect is profit.”

Who gained the most from the incident?

“Hong Woo-jong, then.”

“Yes, and Hong Woo-jong isn’t the type to ignore such attention.”

Considering that they’re trying to take over the party in the long term through elections and even aim for the presidency, they can’t ignore public attention.

“Even if that’s not the case, a suspect under suspicion can’t move easily.”

“But we don’t have an excuse to directly attack Hong Woo-jong, do we?”

“Of course, not legally.”

Park Do-joon chuckled and said.

“But law isn’t the only means of attack in this world. Hehehe.”

# Affirmation of Existence

“What is this?”

Wang Woo-hwan was flustered and reread the news several times.

“What’s going on?”

-Chinese government declares the China United Front an anti-national organization.

-Korean government designates the China United Front as a first-class terrorist organization.

-Korea and China decide to investigate the China United Front through Interpol.

A flood of news.

This wasn’t the direction Wang Woo-hwan was expecting.

“This isn’t it……”

Originally, the Korean government should have claimed that the China United Front didn’t exist and that it was an impersonation. Acknowledging that a bombing terrorist organization is active within the country would have all sorts of negative effects.

Stock price drops. People avoiding densely populated areas, and so on.

The reason terrorist groups target crowded areas is to cause social shock rather than just killing people.

But they’re acknowledging it?

“What is……”

At that moment, his cell phone rang.

Wang Woo-hwan picked up the phone and frowned.

It was an unfamiliar number, but he seemed to know who it was.

But he couldn’t not answer it.

“It’s me.”

-What the hell are you doing?

A fierce voice flowed from the other side of the phone.

No wonder, the person on the other end of the phone was in a confusing situation.

“Nothing.”

-Nothing? So, you’re handing me over?

“Handing you over?”

-Don’t you know that the Chinese government is tracking me down right now!

The man who carried out the bombing was trembling. Receiving money and going over with a fake identity to blow himself up wasn’t difficult.

Korea had almost no security because there had been no bombings, so approaching a car parked in a parking lot was too easy. He also received the target’s movements.

But the Chinese government tracking him was a completely different matter.

-What? The China United Front? Are you trying to kill me?

It’s true that he’s a terrorist working for money. And he’s been doing this kind of work around the world. But this was the first time.

It’s true that he’s done various assassinations, but it was also the first time he’s been identified and tracked.

Of course, it’s true that each country’s government may know about him in some way. But it’s a completely different matter for the media to report it extensively and for China to track him down.

“There must be some misunderstanding……”

-Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? Didn’t you deceive me and sell me out to create a terrorist organization?

“……”

-And it’s being tracked. Thanks to that, I’ve become a target of tracking.

“No, there’s a misunderstanding.”

-I won’t say much.

But the criminal didn’t want to talk for long. He didn’t know when he would be tracked down.

-I’ll make sure to get revenge someday.

And the phone hung up. Wang Woo-hwan urgently called the number back, but only heard that the phone was turned off.

“Damn it, this isn’t it.”

It’s not that there aren’t groups that do this kind of work. But you shouldn’t provoke them more than necessary. But now China and Korea are provoking them more than necessary, and as a result, the backlash is severe.

“Why the hell?”

Looking at the Republic of Korea government’s policy, they should have denied that the ‘China United Front’ existed in order to alleviate anxiety, but Wang Woo-hwan felt bitter that they had started to drag the case in a completely different direction, but there was nothing he could do now, so he just stared at the disconnected cell phone with an uneasy face.

“The media is now talking extensively about the China United Front. What are you going to do now?”

Yoon Tae-min asked as if curious. In fact, the whole world is talking about it as Park Do-joon said.

“Surprisingly, the Chinese government accepted it easily.”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head as if in wonder. From China’s point of view, they hate acts that tarnish their name, but she couldn’t understand why they would accept it.

In any case, they have a structure that is externally loyal to the Chinese Communist Party.

“Of course, they didn’t accept it easily from the beginning. But when we responded as Park Do-joon said, they accepted it surprisingly easily.”

“As Sunbae said? What did you say?”

“I told them to look at the objects carefully.”

“Objects?”

“The objects photographed at the scene. What did they say he died from?”

“They said it was C4.”

“That’s right.”

Park Do-joon nodded.

“That’s important.”

“Why?”

“The official name of C4 is Composition Explosive C-4. In other words, it’s Compound Explosive Material Type C Number 4.”

“So?”

“It was developed in the United States, but it’s mainly made and used in the West with a license. Korea is the same.”

“Why is that?”

“If it’s a real Chinese criminal, would they use unfamiliar C4?”

“Huh?”

Lee Ji-soo’s eyes widened at those words.

“Wait, then the criminal is?”

“It’s a guy who uses Western weapons. That means the West may be framing China to put a bad image on them.”

C4 is equipment used in the West. Of course, it’s easy to use, and there are quite a few that have leaked out, so there’s no problem for communist terrorists to use it.

“But realistically, there’s no possibility that a communist terrorist is the culprit. It’s more likely that it’s a Western terrorist.”

“Why?”

Lee Ji-soo didn’t understand. Well, there’s no education on terrorists in domestic profiling education, so it’s natural that she doesn’t know. Even the United States separately trains professional profilers in the area of terrorists.

‘Well, I know because I received separate training.’

Before his regression, Park Do-joon gained experience in profiling for the entire country, including the National Intelligence Service, and that included terrorism as well.

“If you’re talking about communist terrorists, there’s really only North Korea, right?”

“That’s……”

“Think about why Korea isn’t a target of terrorism.”

“That’s…… Um, I don’t know.”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head. When you think about it, Korea’s terrorism prevention system is a mess. In fact, a foreigner reported a terrorist, and after rounding up the terrorist group with the report, they even tried to deport him back to his home country, where terrorists were rampant.

To that extent, even though minimal protection and prevention of informants is not being done, Korea has almost no terrorist damage compared to other countries.

A Professional Profiler