Chapter 363: Turbulent South Korea

Kim Yue-sung's 2.27 statement was like pouring another barrel of gasoline on the burning fire in South Korea.

On 28 February, larger protests and marches involving workers, students, and citizens broke out throughout South Korea, demanding that the South Korean Choe Doo-sun authorities severely punish the perpetrators of the 26 February incident and the organizers of the incident, South Korean Security Commander Choi Bu-sang and Gendarmerie Superintendent Park Mei-wan, and lift the national "state of emergency"; In response to the 27 March statement put forward by North Korea's Kim Yue-sung, it was said that the peaceful reunification of the North and the South would be realized as soon as possible.

At 10 a.m. on the same day, at Seoul National University, the base camp of the South Korean Myeongjo Movement, the South Korean military police and army security corps, who were enforcing "very martial law," stopped a protest procession carrying a protest procession carrying a protest procession carrying a second-year female student of Seoul University, Park Chu Ai, and Lee Soon-man, a 16-year-old junior high school student at Kaiwen Middle School, who had been killed by the South Korean military police and army security forces during the march on February 26, and once again clashed fiercely with the students.

The South Korean military police and army security forces killed and wounded 37 people with batons and bayonets and arrested more than 100 people. Agitated Han students and citizens of Seoul rose up and fought back heroically with stones, sticks and Molotov cocktails against the gendarmerie and security forces. At the same time, students and citizens of Seoul City used buses and human walls to block the South Korean army and police who came to reinforce them, centered on the Seoul National University School of Medicine in Jongno-gu. The South Korean military police and army security forces, which enforce "extraordinary martial law" at the Seoul University School of Medicine, have been cut off from the outside world to arrest the killers.

In the afternoon, more than 200,000 citizens and masses gathered in the central Jongno District to participate in the rally and procession, and they chanted: "The motherland has 3,000 miles of picturesque rivers and mountains, and its 5,000-year history is long. The splendid national culture cultivates the growth of the glorious people, let us bravely defend the motherland and contribute all our strength! Carry forward the spirit of diligence and bravery, unite and fight for the truth, and have a tenacious will through wind and rain. To build the country according to the people's wishes, the power is infinite like the rushing waves

Surrounded by a sea of people, South Korean military police and security forces retreated into a roadside building and opened fire again into the crowd, this time killing 68 people and wounding 193.

One forehead is tied with the inscription "Unification. Standing on the abandoned armored vehicle of the Army Security Corps, the male student of Han University with a horn made of iron sheet in his hand said loudly: "Compatriots, students, what is before us is the big question of where North Korea is going, and it is a big question related to whether our people will enjoy freedom or be enslaved. Freedom is a God-given right for each of us, and no one has the right to deni it to us! Today we are witnessing once again our political axe, this fascist military regime built on the tip of a bayonet, in order to deprive us of our freedom, continue to enslave us, they use the weapons that we, the taxpayers, bought from the Americans, mercilessly slaughter our unarmed compatriots, and it is time for us to pay them the blood debt! Compatriots, classmates, if you are not free, you would rather die! ”

"It's better to die than to be free!" "Long live freedom!" The students and citizens gathered around the armored vehicle followed his fanatical shouts and sang loudly: Carry forward the spirit of industriousness and bravery, unite and fight for the truth, and be tenacious in the face of wind and rain. Build the country according to the aspirations of the people

"Da, da, da, da", the gendarmes hiding in a two-story building on the west side of the road fired a point at the young student, and the bullet pierced the heart of the Han University classmate and lifted him off the armored car. In full view of the public, the South Korean authorities shot and killed a hot-blooded young man.

"Burn them, brutes!" "Burn them!" Countless homemade Molotov cocktails and flammable materials were thrown at the small building from all sides, and the angry crowd set fire to the building where the South Korean military police and army security forces were hiding

Faced with this erosive situation, Choi Doo-sun, the acting president, felt helpless for a while. He hurriedly called an emergency "state council", but this time he did not convene because the hidden danger caused by Park Chung-hee's death exploded.

When Ding Il-kwon, chief of the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters, attended the "State Council" convened by Kim Jong-mi at the Blue House Presidential Palace, he saw that Kim Jong-mi's wolf-like ambitions were clearly exposed. He even suspected that Kim Jong-mi had killed Park Chung-hee so that he could replace him.

Kim Jong-mi had both the motive and the conditions for committing the crime. Judging from his deployment at the Blue House, Kim Jong-mi seems to be ready. Therefore, Ding Yiquan quietly and carefully observed Kim Jong-mi's every move, word and deed at the "State Council".

He's really scared of Kim Jong-mi now, really scared of those CIA secret service agents rushing in and arresting them or killing them like Park Chung-hee. At this time, he did not dare to have any behavior that stimulated Kim Jong-mi, the spy leader, and even when anyone spoke, he had to stop Kim Jong-mi's words in time.

Ding Yiquan, a colonel-level officer of the former Gendarmerie of the Communist Party, had already prepared for the worst, and he took the opportunity of pouring water to adjust his seat, so that his face was facing the door, a little farther away from the door, and closer to Kim Jong-mi, so that in the event of an emergency, he could use a pistol against Kim Jong-mi's head as soon as possible to achieve the purpose of self-preservation.

Nearly eight hours of dreary "State Council" almost made him collapse from nervousness. Thankfully, the meeting finally broke up, and he said goodbye politely to Kim Jong-hee, and dupliciously expressed to Kim Jong-mi that he would support him as Park Chung-hee's successor. After that, he left the Cheong Wa Dae presidential palace as fast as he could. When the car drove past the camp of the former Eighth Army of the US Army, where the 18th Regiment of the Capital Division was now stationed, he breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't even dare to go home, so he went directly to the underground war room of the army headquarters.

Ding Yiquan was really frightened, he personally adjusted and deployed the guards of the army headquarters, and told his personal guards to do a careful inspection of each post before he was relieved. After lying on the sofa for a short rest, sorting out his thoughts, and then he called for someone to notify the commanders and chiefs of staff of the navy, army, and air force to come to the underground war room of the army headquarters for a meeting.

! What the hell will the New Year's Eve be? The leaders of the South Korean navy, army, and air force came to the army headquarters with dissatisfaction and doubts, and at this time, except for a few people who knew that Park Chung-hee had been killed, the vast majority of military and political officials in Seoul were still kept in the dark, and they were ignorant of Park Chung-hee's death.

Ding Il-kwon told the leaders of the navy, land, and air force attending the meeting: "President Park Chung-hee was murdered at the Presidential Palace at 22:41 last night," and then he gave a general explanation of the situation of the "State Council" convened by Kim Jong-mi and the decision of the meeting.

The incident happened suddenly, and everyone seemed to have fallen into a cloud of five miles, and they asked one after another: "Admiral Ding, is Your Excellency the President really dead?" ”

"Nonsense, is this also a joke? I saw with my own eyes his body lying in the garage, can there be a fake. Ding Yiquan replied impatiently.

"What if His Excellency the President was really murdered, murdered by an external enemy? Or was he murdered by his own people inside? ”

For a while, the meeting was chaotic.

"Dang, dang, dang" Ding Yiquan knocked on the table with the teacup in his hand and said: "Everyone, be quiet, this time His Excellency the President was assassinated, I think the insider's crime may be very large, it is very likely that he was killed by the Central Intelligence Department, or it may be killed by other guards, but no matter who killed it, this matter must be directly related to the Central Intelligence Department." Therefore, everyone should take extra precautions, especially with the people in the intelligence department, and this matter has not yet been made public, so everyone should pay attention to confidentiality. These are extraordinary times, and I have ordered the whole army to enter the second level of combat readiness, and no one is allowed to mobilize a single soldier without my orders. There is also the involvement of the Army Security Forces in the investigation into the assassination of the President. ”

He fully realized that grasping the investigation power over the death of Park Chung-hee is a major magic weapon for controlling the political situation in South Korea, and that whoever he wants to get rid of can be put on suspicion of assassinating the president, and through this powerful weapon, he can effectively eliminate his political enemies, even if he does not die, he can be skinned.

Kim Jong-mi has also been busy these days, on the one hand, he is busy holding meetings and deploying tasks for the personnel of various party departments of the Mingzhu Republican Party to prepare for his presidential candidacy. After all, the president Choi Doo-sun is only a temporary acting president with a transitional surname, and who will become president in the end still depends on "popular election"

On the other hand, he knew very well that without the support of the military in South Korea, the president would definitely not be able to be the president, and the North Koreans needed to be managed with an iron fist. However, because he only graduated from the South Korean Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1949, he has no experience of serving in the Korean army, and he is young and has little qualifications, and he lacks connections in the circle of the South Korean army, which is dominated by these "Yueben soldiers". Although the South Korean military and intelligence system have used their classmates, fellow villagers, colleagues, and cronies to win over some officers and organize their own teams very early on, most of these people are middle-level officers, and they do not have their own iron buddies in the top echelons of the army. Therefore, in the past few days, he has also been looking for his own connections in the army, and has used the means of dividing officials and making wishes to win over some young officers to find a foundation for himself in the army, so as to establish a political regime with himself as the core.

However, in the course of his activities in the past few days, he found a problem, that is, he had some "connections" in the military, and it seemed that he was deliberately avoiding himself. In contact with myself, I also listen a lot and talk a lot. He was upset about that.

Tired and tired, he returned to his own office in Miyjeong-dong, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Department, and Pak Sung-ju, director of the Department of Internal Affairs, reported to him: "Minister Kim and Chief of Staff Ding Il-kwon's behavior is very abnormal, and he has not returned home since he attended the "State Council" of the Blue House, but has gone directly to the Army Headquarters and personally deployed the guards of the Army Headquarters, and then hurriedly took the commanders and chiefs of staff of the Navy, Army, and Air Force to the underground war room of the Army Headquarters for a meeting of more than two hours."

"What's the meeting?" Kim Jong-mi sat up on the sofa and interrupted Park Sung-hu's report with some nervousness.

The director of the Department of Internal Affairs, Park Sung-ju, shook his head in disappointment and said, "I don't know, our staff there can't get close to the venue." In addition, Ding Yiquan kept looking for some military commanders at the army and division levels to go to the war room of the army headquarters, this is the list of these people he was looking for," said Park Sung-hu, who took out a document from the file bag marked "top secret" and handed it to Kim Jong-mi.

Kim Jong-mi quickly read the document and asked, "What else is important?"

"Also, there is the involvement of the South Korean Army Security Command in the investigation of President Park Chung-hee's assassination." Park Sung-ju replied.

The report of the Home Affairs Office alarmed Kim. After standing up from the sofa, bowing his head, pacing around the office for a few steps, then turned around and asked, "What do you say Ding Yiquan wants to do?" Is it true that he will not be home in this extraordinary period for the sake of command? ”

"Nope! This seems unlikely. Park Sung-ju said with great certainty: "Now the front line has not found any abnormal situation, and there is no need for him to stay in the war room for several days in a row." Even when the front line was tense a little ago, he didn't live in the war room. In addition, as chief of staff, he kept looking for some military commanders at the corps and division levels, which did not conform to the procedures, and he could completely deploy tasks through the commanders and chiefs of staff of various services. Furthermore, any military deployments and movements are made on the basis of information provided by our Ministry. What is the military movement intelligence of China and North Korea that our CIA, the International Intelligence Service and the DPRK Intelligence Service, have not provided? ”

Park Chengju paused for a while and whispered mysteriously: "Isn't it very clear what he wants to do?" He wanted to carry out a military coup. ”

He was the main planner and participant in the 5,16 coup d'Γ©tat of Kim Jong-mi Park Chung-hee, and he was very sensitive to this, so he nodded approvingly and said, "Director Park, your analysis is very correct, go on." ”

"Also, the Army Security Command is involved in the investigation of the assassination of the president, which is also abnormal," Park Sung-ju took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the coffee table, lit it, took a deep breath and said: "You know, the predecessor of the [***] Security Command was the Army Espionage Force established during the Syngman Rhee period, which was just an army intelligence agency subordinate to the Army at that time, and was expanded to the Army Security Command under President Park Chung-hee and became the Army Security Command in charge of the army's intelligence business. Although they are directly responsible to the president for monitoring the military and for military intelligence, who is now responsible for the investigation into the assassination of President Park Chung-hee, who is responsible for going beyond their own functions to intervene in the investigation of the assassination of President Park Chung-hee? If it is President Choi's order, we must also consult with our Central Intelligence Department. Shouldn't have jumped away from us either."

(To be continued)