Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Now, Kim Myung-soo, who launched the rebellion, is a rebel.

The four-hour coup attempt, which initially went through all the proper procedures, was ruined by the lack of authorization from the Secretary of Defense and the betrayal by the U.S. military.

"How could this be...didn't we agree to it?"

Kim Myung-soo stared in astonishment at the helicopter in the sky.

U.S. Vice President Vance, taking advantage of the transfer flight of Air Force Two about to land at Incheon International Airport, joined in and announced to the soldiers:

"Please stop your anti-democratic dictatorial actions, and all soldiers, please return to your camps."

He used Google's privileges to directly post his videos on the soldiers' phone homepages, successfully prompting a large number of South Korean troops to withdraw.

In the end, Kim Myung-soo drove an armored vehicle alone and fled to the north in a sorry state.

Standing atop the hotel at the Longshan base, overlooking the streets embroiled in armed confrontation, Li Xinghe was deeply moved by the first coup attempt of 2028, which ended in four hours.

"The instructions from the American bigwigs are still the most effective."

The Chungmu Society, Cho Gu-hwan, and the establishment of Yeongeunmun Gate merely created a crack in the US-South Korea alliance system that the US had spent decades building.

The silly younger sister suddenly teased her brother playfully:

"At least you can make no fewer than 100 female celebrities in the Korean entertainment industry aged 20-35 obedient."

Li Xinghe teased in return, touching Ju Yan's delicate little breasts:

"It can also make my silly little sister stand still."

Li Juyan actually stood at attention, even tiptoeing, trying to make her little bottom stick out. Zhao Lieshu couldn't stand it and slapped Juyan's little bottom hard.

"You've got your fun, you little bee."

Li Xinghe reassured the two pretty girls and told them to stay at the hotel for the time being.

"Stop joking around. I'm going to see the American bigwigs, freeze the Dokdo incident, and end this sudden coup d'état."

He calmly went downstairs, got into a military vehicle, and headed to Incheon International Airport.

Upon arrival, Kim Hong-kyun was already surrounded by a large group of politicians, anxiously awaiting the United States' arrangements.

Vice President Vance didn't even get off the plane; he directly addressed the South Koreans, saying:

"The USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been deployed with the Pacific Fleet and is patrolling near Dokdo. I hope the Dokdo incident will be frozen here and both sides will withdraw from the island together."

The USS Washington, whose rear end was burned by a missile last time, was certainly not brought out only after it was repaired.

Instead, it was never repaired at all. After waiting in line at the shipyard for several months, it was suddenly pulled out for temporary overtime work. So, in fact, the entire stern elevator was still not working. It can be said that it dragged its partially paralyzed body to Dokdo.

The coup had just ended, and things had already come to this point. South Korea's foreign...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and politicians had no choice but to accept this demand.

Finally, Vance distrusted the South Korean military, so he gave Lee Sung-ha a special mission:

"Pursue Kim Myung-soo."

……

Kim Myung-soo ran north.

His military vehicle was GPS-marked, so Lee Sung-ha and Cho Gu-hwan quickly chased him to the vicinity of Panmunjom and blocked Kim Myung-soo at the entrance of the Peace House.

Why not cross over?

Li Xinghe was very curious. He deliberately gave this guy time to defect to the general and betray South Korean intelligence.

The square-faced older man didn't say it directly, but instead brought up his past:

“I used to support peace with China, but they allowed North Korea to possess nuclear weapons, which is simply incomprehensible. So I gave up. I realized that there was no turning back in this situation.”

That makes sense.

He claims to be pro-China, but Li Xinghe completely disagrees, or rather, he is not pro-China but anti-North Korea.

So even though he fled to Panmunjom in a sorry state, he couldn't overcome the mental hurdle.

For traditional factions in South Korea, being pro-American doesn't necessarily mean being pro-Japanese, and being pro-China doesn't necessarily mean being pro-North Korea. Furthermore, being pro-American or pro-China doesn't affect the overall anti-China sentiment within the country. This is because being pro-American is for the purpose of suppressing North Korea, and being pro-China is also for the purpose of suppressing North Korea; at that time, China was also suppressing North Korea, hence the pro-China stance. When China realized that changing its diplomatic approach towards North Korea, and allowing North Korea to play the nuclear deterrent role from behind the scenes, was more appropriate, South Korea deployed THAAD, leading to a breakdown in Sino-South Korean relations. The so-called "pro-China faction" in South Korea, essentially a "pro-North Korea faction advocating subservience," gradually changed its stance.

The above events—the North Korean nuclear crisis erupted in January 2016 with the hydrogen bomb test, the THAAD deployment in South Korea in July 2016, and the South China Sea standoff that determined the fate of East Asia—also occurred in July 2016. Factors such as the ban on South Korea, China's major military reforms, the Made in China 2025 plan, and the improvement of Sino-North Korean diplomacy all occurred around this year. It can be said that the changes before and after 2016 determined the situation in Northeast Asia for the next decade.

"General, I suggest you get your head straight. Is it possible for you to tell the US troops stationed in South Korea that you once supported peace?"

Li Xinghe also added a sarcastic remark: "What is North Korea's status? What is South Korea's status? Do they want to build a temple in a snail shell between the US and China?"

Kim Myung-soo plopped down and held out his hand, asking Lee Sung-ha and Jo Gu-hwan to take him back.

However, he did not expect that Li Xinghe would take him away at this moment.

Li Xinghe said:

“Civil officials who rebel can go to jail; military officials who rebel can only die. You studied politics at the National Defense University and the National University, so you shouldn’t be unaware of this, right? Or do you not study ancient Chinese and Korean history or Confucianism at all? But you are a Christian, so I can accept that.”

Is there such a tradition?

No, or rather, has such a tradition ever disappeared?

Li Xinghe threw a rope to Zhao Juhuan and then wrapped it around the neck of this ambitious, outspoken man:

"Given that the general is a Christian and it is inconvenient for him to commit suicide, we can also help you ascend to heaven sooner."

He then came to his senses and realized that...

"You...no, I don't want to..."

"go to hell!"

Li Xinghe coldly shouted angrily, refusing to give him a chance to live.

If this old guy survives, wouldn't that prove that the United States can decide the democratic situation in South Korea? This would be a major blow to the emerging pro-China faction.

Zhao Juhuan was completely disoriented and obeyed Li Xinghe's orders.

Lee Sung-ha and Cho Gu-hwan simultaneously pulled the rope, strangling Kim Myung-soo to death in front of the Peace House Memorial Hall in Panmunjom, Paju.

After killing the people, Li Xinghe asked Zhao Juhuan:

"Now do you understand what it means to be a pro-China faction?"

"Of course I know."

He nodded repeatedly.

Using China to suppress North Korea while disregarding China's interests is not true pro-China relations. True pro-China relations mean pursuing peace, stability, and economic development in line with China's interests.

Only by understanding this principle can one truly latch onto China's coattails.

Then, a large group of people caught up.

Li Xinghe said:

"He killed himself."

The officers watched silently as Kim Myung-soo was carried away, their expressions twisted with embarrassment. They assumed that the bureaucrats had driven Kim Myung-soo to his death.

Politicians go to jail for rebellion, but military officers die for it?

A reporter outside asked, visibly agitated:

"With such obvious strangulation marks on his neck, you're saying he committed suicide?"

But the official response was so indifferent:

"He committed suicide. A genuine suicide; he hanged himself in front of the Peace House Memorial Hall."

However, as everyone knows, there is nowhere to hang himself in front of the Peace House unless Kim Myung-soo hangs himself from the helicopter.

Faced with the already dead person, Kim Hong-kyun, who rushed over, felt his heart burning with anxiety.

How can we generate public opinion like this?

Li Xinghe gave him guidance:

"He has an undisclosed illicit account with $100 million in illicit funds, which came from bribes during military negotiations led by U.S. Vice President Vance."

"Where did it come from?"

Li Xinghe left after saying that:

“I gave him that money myself.”

Jin Hongjun was utterly shocked.

But shock was no excuse; they still had to leak the information to bureaucrats and politicians to convict the rebels. Kim Hong-gyun had given instructions not to reveal where the money came from.

However, after the illicit money scandal broke out, the South Korean prosecutor's office received a report from Lee Sung-ha, who claimed to be a former negotiator for the US-Japan-South Korea military agreement and had already left the company. Lee revealed that Kim Myung-soo had betrayed South Korea's interests in order to take money from the Americans.

Despite pressure from the three major parties in the National Assembly, the prosecutor's office still disclosed this fact to the South Korean public.

The situation caused an uproar in South Korea. Our highest-ranking military attaché, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, was taking dirty money from the Americans, signing military agreements that humiliated and ceded national sovereignty, and now he was launching a coup to try to seize power.

This scene, which South Koreans had long been accustomed to, became so infuriating after the prosecutor's office's full disclosure and the repeated sensationalism by social media.

"success."

Li Xinghe was very satisfied with his underhanded operation.

In this way, Li Xinghe effectively turned Vance's visit and the Dokdo/Takeshima sovereignty crisis into a series of interconnected deadlocks.

Unable to advance or retreat on the Dokdo front, and just as Vance demanded a simultaneous withdrawal to freeze the sovereignty crisis, Kim Myung-soo, who had accepted a $100 million bribe and signed a humiliating military agreement with the United States, suddenly decided to stage a military coup. After the coup failed, following South Korean practice of the past decade, he should have at least been imprisoned; instead, he was secretly and openly executed.

Did Vance orchestrate Kim Myung-soo's coup attempt behind the scenes?

Is it that the US military is unwilling to see the rise of pro-China factions?

Is the United States obligated to turn South Korea into a front line of death and strangulation?

With the person involved dead, the Dokdo sovereignty crisis has been frozen. Both the US military in Japan and the US military in South Korea have issued 'peace statements,' and the matter has become an unsolved mystery that can no longer be investigated and can only be judged by the audience's own judgment.

The public's impression that the government was full of American lackeys had already taken shape by this time.

Regarding Li Xinghe's subsequent actions, Jin Hongjun, as the apparent initiator of the anti-coup encirclement network, said something insincere to Li Xinghe at the time when he should have been rewarded for his contributions:

"You have an English temperament."

Then left.

Zhao Juhuan was puzzled:

Did he compliment you?

"No, he called me a troublemaker."

Lee Sung-ha shrugged. The South Korean government's bureaucracy was fragmented and couldn't offer any attractive rewards.

But just as Li Xinghe was packing his bags to run back to Tokyo and let Vance take the blame for the rest of the mess, shocking news came from the Dokdo front:

"The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Washington was attacked on its deck by missiles from an unidentified vessel, resulting in the deaths of eight naval aviators and sailors, and the loss of two F-18s."

The Phalanx close-in weapon system on the USS Washington malfunctioned, shooting down a South Korean helicopter that was about to land on the carrier, killing two pilots and one commodore. The Maritime Self-Defense Force claimed responsibility, while the South Korean military claimed it was fired from MK70 containers tethered to two 35,000-ton patrol vessels of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. The South Korean military also claimed that the Americans fired first, leading to an automatic counterattack.

Li Xinghe's expressions were so rich, I just wanted to burst out laughing:

"This is a real troublemaker."

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4400 words. I'll speed things up today.

Chapter 531: The Dokdo Crisis: The US Bears the Burden, White Tiger Regiment's West Ice House Hotel (3900 words)

In the new Air Force No. 2, Li Xinghe stood below the plane, talking on the phone with the beautiful witch, Aiman.

"The USS Washington is having such a tough time, why does it always have problems?" she joked.

Li Xinghe joked:

"Perhaps this is a kind of machine spirit awakening. Look, the South Korean army crashed into and killed the American Lieutenant General Walker. His spirit returned and attached itself to the ship's Phalanx CIWS, and then strafed the South Korean brigadier general on the helicopter. Isn't that reasonable?"

Aiman ​​was also quite exasperated by Li Xinghe's occasional witty and outrageous jokes.

"You're always talking nonsense. How's it going over there?"

"They're arguing."

Li Xinghe looked towards the conference room of Air Force Two. Diplomats from the United States, Japan, and South Korea were gathered there.