A United Nations-brokered détente between North and South Korea is about to make history when two powerful bombs rock Midtown Manhattan, killing the warring nations' representatives as well as innocent bystanders. A renegade North Korean general is behind the violence and, with a political firestorm unleashed on Washington, D.C., Jake Scott is ordered by the president to infiltrate a secret island meeting of the North Korean rulers. Even with his best crew aboard the Reno, Scott is up against a monstrous enemy armed with hair-raising technology: miniaturized nukes stowed on board the Sang-o, or Red Shark — a sub which handily dodges conventional sonar and satellite detection. The clock is ticking as Scott makes a chilling discovery — the weapons are poised and ready to bring down Korea's most despised foe: the U.S.A….
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To Pete and Chuck
The U.S. imperialists are trying to provoke a war against the DPRK. Since the U.S. has made this clear by its reckless saber-rattling, the North is compelled to increase its military deterrent to defend against a U.S. preemptive nuclear attack and armed invasion against it.
Notwithstanding the current peace agreement, the question is not if North Korea will self-destruct, but how it will self-destruct, by implosion or explosion, and when.
I do not believe that the current U.S. president, his predecessor, or any future president, would or will launch a preemptive war against any country, even one wishing to do us harm.
South Korean special envoy Nak-chung Paik emerged from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations on East 45th Street and entered an armored Mercedes-Benz. The doors thunked shut and the car drove off with its NYPD escort. At Second Avenue the motorcade turned onto East 44th Street. Up ahead Paik saw the United Nations building, the edge of its eastern facade turned gold by sunrise.
Paik wiped damp palms on the leather seat cushions. The reunification of a divided people and the ending of the threat of nuclear war on the peninsula turned on the meeting about to take place under the aegis of the secretary-general of the UN. Paik knew that his North Korean counterpart, envoy Kil-won Sim, was a tough negotiator and had prepared accordingly. Still, he feared making a fatal mistake that would scuttle the talks and doom the agreed-to exchange of representatives to Seoul and Pyongyang. Though Paik felt the weight of years of faltering negotiations bearing on his shoulders, he took comfort in the fact that the meeting was simply an opportunity to explore possibilities.
