The private room where Lieutenant Smith is admitted in the Armed Forces Hospital.
"It's time to change the ringer."
The nurse officer entered the special room and spoke perfect English, and Lieutenant Smith could not conceal his astonishment at the beauty of the nurse officer. This was because the Ministry of National Defense had deliberately replaced the nurse officer, and it was Lee Seong-su who proposed that the nurse officer be replaced by a beautiful woman.
'Why are you so beautiful?'
Yankees strangely have a fondness for Asian women, but Lieutenant Smith had spent an excruciating and long time as a POW, so he could not help but find the nurse officer with short hair even more lovely.
And this nurse officer was chosen and conscripted from all the ROK military, and this outcome came about because Lee Seong-su's proposal passed.
"I am a Yankee named Walker Smith Jr."
It was Lieutenant Smith who made a joke when he was called.
"yes?"
"What is the nurse's name?"
It was Lieutenant Smith who fell in love with the nurse officer at first sight.
"This is Captain Jeon Ji-hyeon. I am in charge."
"I will be loyal, I will be loyal."
He was the one who went on talking rubbish after saluting in bed.
"yes?"
"Captain, shall we be pen pals?
"Jokes are allowed up to here. Put your arm out."
At Nurse Officer Jeon Ji-hyun's words, Lieutenant Smith held out his arm.
"It stings. It stings~"
* * *
Blue House restaurant.
Surprisingly, the President asked me what should be done to make South Korea prosperous.
I said I, a young fellow, would not have an idea, but the President felt that I had foreseen the first oil shock that would be created by the fourth Middle East war.
So I mentioned to him some of the things I had been planning on working on.
"Should we pay more attention to the development of heavy industry than we do now?"
"Yes, I believe so. Heavy industry, not light industry, will make the nation strong and rich. And if heavy industry is developed, the defense industry can be developed too, and only then can the Korean army employ weapons manufactured with South Korean technology, not US military equipment."
The president is once more astonished at my words.
[I would like to listen to the young friend's imagination.]
I'm saying this to you now because the President said this to me when he first drank makgeolli.
"Development of the defense industry?"
"Yes, the M-16 rifle that the US provided when we were deployed to combat during the Vietnam War did not fit the body type of the Korean army. If possible, I think we should develop our own standard rifle first. Starting with that, we should develop tanks and fighter jets using domestic technology."
"Is that even possible?"
"If Your Majesty had believed it was impossible, the Gyeongbu Expressway would not have been constructed yet. And the same is true of the Pohang Iron and Steel Company. I believe this is something that must be done by all means."
"Seongsu, how can you come up with such a wonderful idea?"
"Imagine it as a fantasy of a naked thunderhead."
"No, it's something that has to be done just as you asserted. And?"
This is a very silly fantasy, but I believe that after the heavy industry is established, the petrochemical industry should be established, and finally the national potential should be totally mobilized for the electronics industry."
"Finally the electronics industry?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. Sadly, the electronics industry technology of South Korea now is not even able to produce a television by domestic technology."
"That's true.
"Because South Korea doesn't have any resources, I think that the only way to survive and be a rich nation is to invent new technologies. You shouldn't think of electronic goods as consumables for domestic use."
"why?"
"Because in the future, electronic devices can be part of every product made by mankind."
"That's possible, because anything is possible in imagination."
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"Your Majesty, that telephone over there with the cord pulled out is a military radio."
"yes."
"If we make military radios smaller, can't they be used for civilian use?"
Am I speaking something too far ahead of its time?
"A normal person walks around with a phone? Hehehe!"
Laughing is believing that it's rubbish.
"There was once when people believed there were rabbits on the moon."
To that degree, the moon was a mysterious world to mankind.
But on July 20, 1969, the United States finally set foot on the moon.
The dream of traveling to the moon has turned into reality.
"That's right."
"If you can dream it, it can become reality."
This is a president whose eyes completely change when he listens to my words.
dripping!
Just then there was a knock.
"Seongsu."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"I will learn more about the 500 won bill story and the rabbit on the moon later."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Maybe the commander of the Security Command has come.
And then the chief secretary entered the restaurant.
Following him, the commander of the security command wore a tense face.
"I have come at the invitation of His Excellency the President. Loyalty!"
The commander of the Security Command bowed his head before the president, who stood upright with makgeolli in hand.
"Commander of the Security Command."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"I must speak something nonsensical from now on, but I hope you will not hear me speaking something nonsensical."
"Follow."
The Security Command commander responded promptly.
"I still do not like the notion of my sons being forcibly drafted to fight in the Vietnam War."
Are you serious?
That's not it.
If the North Korean army retreats from the Vietnam War, then the American military will attempt to retreat from Korea. In this case, Kim Il-sung might be misled.
Suppose we were to go to war with North Korea today?
The American military, bogged down in the mud of the Vietnam War, may not even be sent to the Second Korean War.
why not?
Because huge anti-war protests are already raging in America.".
"I know that too, so I'm speaking nonsense."
It was said by the president and he gazed at me.
"The rest, Seongsu, you explain to the commander."
The Commander of the Security Command looked amazed that the President called his name with such endearing eyes.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Upon speaking with the President, I encountered the Commander of the Security Command.
"The Security Command must organize the protests against dispatching troops to the Vietnam War."
"owner."
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The president called for the Security Command commander at that time.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Seongsu, no, Sergeant Lee Seongsu, and my special assistant, please actively support me."
backup?
I'm being requested to command this mission.
"Your Majesty."
"Will the college students nationwide believe what I say? Will they believe how sincere I am? That is why Seongsu is appropriate for the work. Treat him well."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The commander of the Security Command could do nothing but quickly respond to the president's commands.
'I'm a special adviser?'
The word of the President is absolute.
That is why it is unexpected.
"You have to keep in mind that this is a top secret mission. You don't want the US army or those rat-like CIA agents to find out about it."
We also found out what the President thinks of the American CIA.
'I was sent straight to the front line.'
* * *
Special room in the Armed Forces Hospital.
The New York State Senator came to the Army Medical Center to visit his son, Smith.
I accompanied the Senator with Lieutenant Smith.
"Smith, is it that Korean youth who saved you?"
Following the tearful reunion, it was the senator who questioned Lt. Smith about the entire incident.
[Walker Smith]
-Age: 62 years old.
-Occupation: United States Senator for New York State.
-Ability: Opportunistic sense.
-Special note: Depending on the situation(?), he might become the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.
'Special circumstances depending on the situation?'
Is this Senator Walker Smith's crisis?
And does having the secret meaning of stating that he might be the Democratic nominee imply that he cannot be President of the United States?
As a matter of fact, there never was and never will be a US President by the name of Walker Smith.
But since I have degenerated into a rational creature, nobody knows what sort of butterfly effect this shall trigger.
'One thing is certain.'
On the clear flat surface before me, Senator Walker Smith is represented as a green that looks like a deep blue, i.e., he is near the allies.
'Smith Jr.'
It looks like a flawless primary color, blue.
Of course, nothing is marked in red in this special room of the military hospital and the surrounding territory.
If it weren't for Seongsu's sacrifice, I would have been brutally tortured to death by the communists in nasty Vietnam."
Here are the Blue House Chief of Staff and the top brass of the Korean armed forces.
'Thank you so much, Smith.'
Smith is informing me of this so that I would be treated with more respect when he departs for America.
"okay?"
Yes, it was my friend Seongsu who rescued me when I was about to die."
Actually, Smith was an American soldier and I was a Korean soldier. We could become friends since we were equally prisoners of war.
When Smith had finished talking, his father, an American senator, approached me and hugged me tightly.
"Father, we are like brothers.
All that Smith expresses is translated to the Chief of Staff to the President and Korean military commanders via an interpreter.
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'Very bad in North Vietnam always was.'
And as we pass through the worst, only the best is made.
"Smith, if you and I are brothers, then you are my son too. Did you say Seongsu?"
"yes."
"From now on, call me godfather."
Suddenly I was addressing a senator with significant power in American politics as my godfather.
As Chairman Lee Seo-jin, my conscience better than anyone else knows that in a well-known Irish political family, the definition of a godfather and godson is an enormous relationship.
"Thank you, my lord."
The senator looked at me as I immediately addressed him as godfather.
"If there's something you want, just let me know. If it's something I can help with, I'll take care of it immediately, and if it's something tough, I'll figure it out as soon as possible."
Perhaps because Lt. Smith and his father are Irish, but he has a hot head to him.