Chapter 360: Chinese New Year's Eve at the Blue House

On the morning of December 18, 1963, the last group of 203 US officers and men stationed in South Korea happily boarded the US supply ship USS Clariss, which had just been released after being seized by the Chinese Navy in the Tsushima Strait, at the No. 10 berth of the Busan Pier in South Korea.

With a long whistle, the supply ship "Claris" put away its last cable and slowly left the port of Busan in south Korea, where they will sail through China's inland seas -- the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea -- through the Guanmen Strait between China and China -- to the distant shore of the ocean under the "escort" of the Chinese Navy.

No one knows whether this long-sounding whistle is a farewell love chant or a mournful cry. Whatever it is, in short, with the long whistle of the US supply ship "Claris", it marks the end of the 13-year history of the US military stationed on the Korean Peninsula.

With the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea, the three units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Korea have also withdrawn to China one after another, returning to their original defense areas.

There is a "vacuum" on the Korean Peninsula that is rare in the recent history of Korea without foreign troops.

February 23, 1964 is the traditional festival of the Han cultural area - the Spring Festival. Spring Festival, also known as the lunar year in North Korea. The customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in North Korea are basically the same as in China, when the Spring Festival arrives, every household is cleaned up, and the streets and villages are dressed in festive costumes. On Chinese New Year's Eve, family and friends gather together to greet each other, but instead of eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, they eat homemade cakes, rice cake soup, eight treasure rice and other foods. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people go to the elders' homes to pay their respects to the New Year, and then go to participate in various folk games and cultural activities held by the people

During this year's Spring Festival, the entire Korean Peninsula was filled with a festive atmosphere, with colorful flags fluttering on the streets of Seoul, with slogans on both sides of the streets, such as "Welcoming the Spring Festival" and "Greeting the New Year," as well as some politically tinged slogans such as "North and South Korea are one family" and "Remembering relatives and peacefully reunifying Korea during the festive season," and various colorful flowers made of paper were placed in the flower beds at the intersections.

Compared to the festive atmosphere of the entire Korean Peninsula, the Blue House, the official residence of the President of South Korea at No. 1 Sejong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, looks lifeless.

In the presidential office on the second floor of the main building of the Blue House, Park Chung-hee, the president of the Republic of Korea who had not long been in charge of the Blue House, became an outcast of the United States. He frowned, the corners of his mouth pursed downward, making his already long philtrum appear longer, and he was fascinated by a pair of small triangular eyes, looking at the snow-covered Beidak Mountain behind the Blue House. At this time, his mood was indescribable. He was like an ant on a hot pot, irritable and restless, tossing and turning around the office.

The situation at home and abroad is becoming more and more unfavorable to him, Kim Yue-sung, under the instruction of China, disguised himself as a messenger of peace and constantly put on a posture of peace, calling for the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea, those students continued to hold demonstrations under the instigation of [***], and even those ordinary people who did not understand anything followed in making trouble.

Park Chung-hee, formerly known as "Minoru Okamoto" and "Masao Takagi", graduated from the "Manchurian Military Academy" in Changchun, China in June 1944. He was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the present army. In January 1945, he was assigned to the 635 unit of Qiqihar of the Kwantung Army as a second lieutenant adjutant in the 6th Military District, and in January 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant because of the "decisive handling of the saboteurs against the Great Empire" in the battle. Although there is no detailed historical record of how many Chinese anti-Japanese fighters he killed on the battlefield of China's resistance against the Japanese people, it is not difficult to know how vicious he was to the Chinese and the people, and that he was an out-and-out war criminal whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.

On August 15, 1945, after the unconditional surrender of the Yue Ben, the 8th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army, to which Park Chung-hee belonged, refused to surrender and shot the Soviet liaison officer. During the encirclement and annihilation operation launched by the Soviet army, Park Chung-hee and three North Korean officers escaped from the encirclement. After that, he came to Yanjing as a refugee and joined the Kuomintang Central Army, and the Kuomintang repatriated him back to China in 1946.

In the Syngman Rhee regime in South Korea. The vast majority of senior and middle-ranking officers in the military, police, and special systems are officers and men of Korean descent in the Yue army, who are called "the two devils of the Goryeo stick" by the Chinese. After returning to North Korea, Park Chung-hee joined the South Korean Army as a mid-level officer. After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Park Chung-hee, the executioner who slaughtered the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers, was offered a chance to be promoted, and he began the golden period of his life with his quick mind and flexible means. He successively served as Chief of Staff of the 9th Division of the South Korean Puppet Army, Deputy Chief of the Operations Bureau of the Army Headquarters, and Commander of the Artillery of the 2nd Army. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1953. In the years that followed, Park Chung-hee rose rapidly. He went to the United States as an artillery officer to attend the advanced class of the U.S. Army Artillery School, and upon his return to South Korea, he was appointed principal of the Korean Artillery School. Later, he was transferred to the 5th Infantry Division of South Korea as a division commander. In 1957, he was promoted to major general and served as Chief of Staff of the 1st Army of the South Korean Army. In 1959, Park Chung-hee served as commander of the 6th Military District, commander of the 1st Barracks District, deputy chief of operations of the South Korean Army Headquarters, and deputy commander of the 2nd Army Group. Park Chung-hee finally took a prominent position in the military that swayed the political situation in South Korea. In 1961, he launched a military coup d'état on May 16, overthrowing the regime of Yoon Pok-sun, the second president of South Korea, and reaching the pinnacle of his criminal life with the iron fist of military scholars.

When the United States began to deploy nuclear missiles in South Korea, Park Chung-hee felt very proud that he was protected by the most powerful American master in the world, and it was nuclear protection. Who would dare to do anything to me Park Chung-hee?

However, what he never expected was that China quickly reacted extremely strongly to this behavior of the United States, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army did not use the banner of the volunteer army this time, but the 40,000 iron horses of the Jinge Iron Horse returned to North Korea again in three directions, and Chen Bing 38th Parallel. At the same time, he blocked the Tsushima Strait at sea, unceremoniously sank the 12th US destroyer squadron in the Tsushima Strait, and seized American warships, all of which made him, a second devil who owed a lot of blood debts to the Chinese people, feel extremely nervous and uneasy.

He was extremely disappointed that the US masters, under strong pressure from China, completely dismantled and removed the nuclear warheads and launchers deployed in south Korea, and even the "coffin" that the US military had secretly built overnight was blown up.

In the end, Rear Admiral Lester, commander of the US forces stationed in south Korea, only left him a sentence of "normal defense transfers," and he evacuated south Korea in the first batch with more than 12,000 officers and men of the 5th Division of the US Eighth Army stationed in south Korea and all their equipment, and returned to the United States. As if one more minute in the Republic of Korea would kill them, they fled south Korea.

What is more, in order to prevent him from knowing in advance about the secret transactions between China and the United States, the US ambassador to south Korea never returned after a vacation in China. When they went to the US Embassy to inquire about the situation, the officials of the US Embassy in South Korea were like unjust seeds, their faces were like frost, and they always bluntly threw out the sentence "There is no comment" that rejects people thousands of miles away. It was not until October last year that the US ambassador to "South Korea" finally returned from his long six-month vacation to "pay a visit" to him, the president of the Republic of Korea.

When the U.S. ambassador explained his intentions, which made him feel extremely humiliated, Park Chung-hee asked very dissatisfied: "I don't understand, we in South Korea are your most loyal allies of the United States, why do you do this?" Why is the truth not being told to us until now? The ambassador simply ignored Park's accusations and talked to him about how important America's core interests were.

He could no longer hold back his anger, glared at the two small triangular eyes, and shouted loudly to his master: "You American political axe has disappointed us too much, you only think about your own core interests, do you think about the safety of our Republic of Korea, you have shamelessly betrayed us, abandoned us like a dog, and we will decide our own destiny with our will." In that case, we can't trust you Americans

This arrogant and unreasonable American had no interest in listening to him at all, and without the slightest concern for his face and feelings, he actually stood up, whistled, and walked away.

Park Chung-hee looked at the departing American ambassador, and he scolded angrily: "These bitch raised Americans! He grabbed a vase from the official kiln of the Wanli period of the Song Dynasty and smashed it towards the gate.

"Your Excellency, Madame has prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, please go downstairs to eat." Park Chang-yong, deputy director of security at the presidential office on duty, walked into the president's office and cautiously reported to Park Chung-hee.

Park Chung-hee tightened his eyebrows and said "um", there is nothing smooth now, it is that he almost forgot that today is Chinese New Year's Eve. He listened to the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and as Park Chang-yong descended downstairs to the Korean restaurant, the family's dining room was square and the floor was heated by a heated floor through the pipes below. In order to relieve her husband's troubles, Mrs. Lu Yingxiu personally cooked today, preparing a table that suits Park Chung-hee's taste, braised shiitake mushrooms, roast beef slices, rice cake soup, pies, lettuce, bean tooth cold vegetables, dried mentae fish and dried squid, and a plate of Park Chung-hee's favorite sashimi. There was also a bottle of whiskey on the table.

Lu Yingxiu took off his coat and shoes for Park Chung-hee and then sat down with Park Chung-hee. Park Chung-hee sat on a yellow cushion with a backrest, facing the front door with his back to the window, and a screen between him and the window blocked the view from the window.

Park Chung-hee had no appetite for the delicious food, he took a few bites mechanically, he didn't even know what he ate, and then put down his rice bowl and waved his hand like a fly. Lu Yingxiu instructed the maid to remove the meal and leave the restaurant with the child.

Lu Yingxiu is docile and virtuous, empathetic, in addition to preparing dishes and meals suitable for Park Chung-hee's taste, she also recruited two young and beautiful Yeji accompaniments who are more suitable for Park Chung-hee's taste. Let the exhausted Park Chung-hee relax the physical and mental fatigue. When he withdrew, two "young ladies" floated in and waited around Park Chung-hee.

Such a wife is aware enough to know what her husband is and what she needs at what time. She really deserves to be called the "First Lady of South Korea".

Park Chung-hee forgot about his troubles for the time being, and left behind the complicated domestic and foreign political affairs. Immerse yourself in the artistic conception of "wine is not intoxicating, everyone is drunk". At this time, no one noticed that outside the door of the restaurant, there were two very faint "poof, poof" sounds and a small falling sound made by people falling on the carpet.

Then a masked man wearing a South Korean Army camouflage uniform with only two eyes exposed, unhurriedly opened the door of the restaurant, and "poof, poof, poof" fired a short shot at the chest of Park Chung-hee, who was holding an art mark in one hand, with a silent submachine gun. Then wearing a pair of U.S. military combat boots, he stepped on the rectangular dining table placed in front of Park Chung-hee, and shot Park Chung-hee's ugly face in the arms of the chaperone on the right. Then he kicked the frightened screaming geisha in the face, ending her hysterical screams.

The masked killer took less than 10 seconds to complete everything he was about to do, and then calmly opened the back window and jumped out, disappearing into the night.

Three 7.62 mm bullets entered Park Chung-hee's chest from the front, leaving only three small openings with a diameter of less than 10 mm on the front chest, and the huge force formed by the warhead when passing through his body penetrated his heart, lungs and other major organs, and then pierced Park Chung-hee's body at a speed of 570 meters per second, and the three bullet wounds formed by the shock wave of the bullet on his back did reach about 100 mm in diameter! Park Chung-hee's entire back muscles and blood vessels were messed up by three large blood holes. The wound caused by the bullet that hit him in the head was even more terrifying, and it lifted 1/3 of Park Chung-hee's skull. The bullet then burrowed into the thigh of the unconscious artist who had been kicked unconscious by the masked man.

(To be continued)