Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Li Xinghe, who stirred up public opinion, didn't forget to invite his good friends to join in the fun.

I've started a limited-time event, friends, come and join!

Li Xinghe arranged for Natasha to contact Moscow:

"What about the Russian Far East Fleet? Could we ask them to invite the Chinese Navy to hold exercises specifically targeting me on both sides of the Tsushima Strait? After all, it's reasonable for me to provoke them and for them to follow suit."

Moscow readily agreed to cooperate, given the positive discussions at the Northeast Asia Summit a few days prior, which were beginning to thaw the ice in the Japanese car-for-oil trade.

The Russian Far East Fleet quickly joined the battle.

Russia's troll syndrome will probably never be cured. They did launch an emergency anti-Strait ambush exercise, but seemingly recalling the painful memory of the Battle of Tsushima, they named this strait exercise 'Noryang,' using the name of Yi Sun-sin to nominally annoy the Japanese, but actually to annoy the Koreans even more.

With Russia taking the lead, the Chinese East Sea Fleet immediately joined the operation.

As a result, the South Koreans discovered that on this day, the US-Japan joint fleet began a strait combat military exercise near Jeju Island, effectively blocking the Tsushima Strait.

The following day, after the Jiangsu Coast Guard took over two islands very close to the South Korean mainland, China and Russia held a ostensibly "anti-Lee Sung-ha" anti-Strait exercise on the east and west sides of South Korea, with warships from the three countries circling the waters surrounding South Korea on three sides, engaging in a standoff.

One minute it's a standoff between the Chinese and American fleets, the next it's a standoff between the Japanese and Russian fleets. If you didn't know better, you'd think the Battle of Tsushima event was being recreated 100 years later, and there were even two more players participating.

But the seemingly tense four-nation war has only caused South Korea, which is surrounded, to be in a state of utter chaos.

Only then did the Koreans vaguely realize that something was wrong.

What kind of military exercise is this?

This clearly blocks all of South Korea's access to the sea.

The encirclement on the sea was not immediately apparent, so Li Xinghe invited Nan Haonu again:

"Please give him a couple of shots, preferably some missiles, and have some military exercises to increase the intensity."

Nan Hao went to consult her superiors.

However, negotiations on this side were not easy. After Li Xinghe agreed to lend the general a loan of $50 million, the general launched two newly developed missiles and opened fire fiercely along the 38th parallel, and mobilized a large number of troops near the 38th parallel to conduct a 'national defense and security enhancement exercise'.

So, the general fired a shot, joined the limited-time event at Suyan Reef, and announced that he would be the top laner on land, engaging in a one-on-one duel with South Korea under the tower.

The South Korean government's brain has gone blank; it doesn't know how to respond.

How did a mere, weak peninsula nation suddenly become a dungeon boss?

At this time, the United States, which had always been very dissatisfied with the two political parties in South Korea, also began to release messages such as "the rampant extremism in South Korea," "the rise of left-wing forces in South Korea," and "South Korea's suspected siding with China" in order to force South Korean political parties to transform into subservient to the United States.

Wasn't Yin Xiyue's kneeling posture up to standard? She even went to the White House to sing for Biden.

No, Yoon Seok-yeol always tries to provoke a war between North and South Korea and drag the United States into it. He's not a good dog of his American daddy.

On such a dark day, with the information cocoon that the South Korean media could no longer maintain bursting, South Koreans finally realized the state of their situation.

With itself already surrounded on three sides by the traditional iron triangle of China, North Korea and Russia, South Korea has provoked a conflict with Lee Sung-ha over the issue of stationing troops on Jeju Island, ultimately turning itself into a desperate situation of being surrounded on all sides.

Considering that even the Seventh Fleet has participated in the process of besieging South Korea, this is roughly equivalent to the five countries of China, the United States, Russia, North Korea, and Japan simultaneously engaging in a campaign to besiege South Korea.

But the South Koreans' response was even more unconventional.

They continued their partisan struggles.

They believed that the problem could be solved simply by purging the opposing party.

The left wing is sharpening its knives at pro-Japanese elements:

"What should we do? Would killing Cheng Yizhong solve the problem now?"

Sung Il-jong, the policy committee chairman of the People Power Party in South Korea, is considered an "extreme pro-Japan element" because of his proposal of a "US-Japan-South Korea military alliance" and numerous pro-Japan actions.

The right wing, on the other hand, tends to favor ethnic cleansing:

"Bullshit! We should immediately purge all the traitors in South Korea! Dig out those bandits who were originally Chinese! Arrest Lee Jae-myung first, then Park Sung-jin, their ancestors were all Chinese."

Even worse, fueled by extreme genetic and genealogical nationalism, clowns like the "Patriotic Party of China" have begun publicly disclosing their genetic testing results and family trees, claiming:

"There are 35% of pro-North Korea and pro-China elements lurking within South Korea. They are genetically descended from Han Chinese from North China. Therefore, they are like dogs that can't change their nature—blindly pro-China. Even if they themselves don't realize they are Chinese, they will wake up once the Chinese find them! Therefore, we must find these 35% of people who are genetically Han Chinese from North China, drive them out, and purify our Republic of Korea! Citizens, vote for the People Power Party! If elected, we will immediately launch a purification bill!"

According to the predictions of these far-right politicians, they intend to personally purge 35% of the entire South Korean population, approximately 1500 million people, in order to purify potential traitors from their genes and family tree.

A nation is an imagined community. But in East Asia, an environment that places great importance on blood ties and where genetic testing has become a nationalist slogan, South Korea's genetic nationalism has become even more frenzied amidst extreme partisan strife and the international situation.

Investigating genes and family trees, immediately purging those with North China ancestry from the far-right ranks, and even revoking their citizenship, is a daily occurrence for far-right extremists in their private lives.

In addition, some xenophobes have pointed out:

"South Korea has 80 Chinese and North Koreans, and 120 million Chinese (including the former). They are all foreign spies! They are all supporters of the Democratic Party! If we don't take action, they are very likely to vote for the Democratic Party and destroy our beautiful country. Drive them out, vote!"

For ordinary Chinese people who have experienced numerous social upheavals, from the Huang Chao Rebellion to the founding of the People's Republic of China, it's hard to imagine that in South Korea, a country that leaped from a feudal aristocratic state to a modern nation, genealogy, ancestral home, surname, and lineage are part of a rather serious official registration process. Furthermore, South Korea is a rather conservative and closed country, exhibiting extreme prejudice against ethnic Koreans from China and North Korean defectors.

Many ethnic Koreans from China who go to South Korea to work face discrimination, unable to register their Chinese names or have their place of origin and social class confirmed. They are often seen as "halfway Koreans." This collective exclusion by society has created a unique ethnic atmosphere among ethnic Koreans in South Korea, similar to that of Koreans in Japan. Even while living in South Korea, their ethnic and national identity can still shift back to China.

The fierce battles within South Korea gave Lee Sung-ha a new shock.

No wonder it's a country that inherited the bloodline of the Korean Kingdom.

Even at this point, they're still embroiled in factional infighting.

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Author's note: Thank you all for your support. 5500 words. Yesterday, I ended up having hot pot again.

Chapter 680: The Great Gene War, The Seventh Republic (4400 words)

"Jeju Island is very safe, I absolutely guarantee that."

Brigade Commander Adam Vilim patted his chest and swore an oath to Li Xinghe.

He wasn't wrong. In Seogwipo City on the south coast of Jeju Island, there is a US military base in the southwest of the city with South Korea's newest US military port, which was built in 2016 according to the standards of Yokosuka Naval Base. It is used for the assembly of large fleets in case of emergency. So there is not only an artificial naval port comparable to Yokosuka, but also a large number of ready-made military barracks and defense facilities.

After Li Xinghe landed by helicopter, the US-Japan joint fleet began rotating into port for rest. The only difference was that each time they entered port, the US and Japanese fleets were mixed together to prevent...

The South Korean media simply captured images of the Japanese warship's movements.

After inspecting the base, Li Xinghe turned around and asked:

How are the residents of Jeju Island reacting emotionally?

"Um...it doesn't matter, I guess it's anti-war. But it doesn't really matter. There might be fewer people near the camp."

Adam shrugged.

Are you suggesting that those South Koreans who don't fight back would dare to attack the US military?

The local officer in charge of information gathering told Li Xinghe:

"Large-scale voter rallies and protests have begun in Jeolla Province, while Gyeongsang Province appears to be... smaller in scale and preoccupied with internal strife."

"It's that Lake Ridge dispute again."

Li Xinghe was not surprised.

South Korea's election map is very clear. Divided in the middle, Gyeonggi Province, North Chungcheong Province (the right wing of South Chungcheong Province), and North and South Jeolla Provinces on the left are generally left-wing strongholds; Gangwon Province and North and South Gyeongsang Provinces on the right are right-wing strongholds. The South Korean capital city reflects the north-south divide: the Gangbuk Democratic Party (representing the poor) and the Gangnam Party (representing the wealthy).

This strange phenomenon is known as the Hunan vs. Lingnan rivalry.

Jeolla Province, also known as Honam, is located in the southwest of South Korea and is a traditional agricultural region. Gyeongsang Province, also known as Yeongnam, is located in the southeast and has traditionally produced high-ranking officials.

The two regions differed significantly during the Japanese occupation. Gyeongsang Province, with Busan, Masan, and Ulsan, was an important location for Japanese colonial investment, while Jeolla Province primarily focused on agriculture and rice production. After World War II, Park Chung-hee, Chun Doo-hwan, and Roh Tae-woo, all from Gyeongsang Province, received extremely preferential policies and benefits from their fellow townsmen. As a result, after South Korea received investment from Japanese conglomerates, the economy of Yeongnam-Gyeongsang Province developed rapidly, becoming a pro-Japanese industrial region.

The neighboring Jeolla Province received very few policies, but instead witnessed landmark events of the democratization movement, such as the Gwangju Uprising.

Thus, after the democratization movement, South Korea entered the election period, and Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province became the strongholds of the left and right wings respectively. In order to win votes and protect their votes, politicians frantically promoted the battle between Huling and Gwangju, and regarded Chun Doo-hwan's massacre of Gwangju as the massacre of Jeolla Province by people from Gyeongsang Province. In maintaining the two strongholds, they artificially created the antagonism between the two places and solidified it into a stereotype.

It must be emphasized that the so-called Lake Ridge dispute originated from Park Chun-ro's policy bias, but it was a regional divide that was forcibly created and solidified by a generation of politicians in South Korea's democratization movement through media propaganda and continued preferential treatment in national projects.

This is a major drawback of the voting system: it necessitates the creation of enemies, leading to regional divisions and even the artificial fabrication of mortal enemies. As a result, the country becomes increasingly fragmented and smaller. It's only because South Korea lacks strong external interference that it has disintegrated long ago.

Just then, another helicopter landed.

Emmanuel, Lee Sung-ha's American wife, came to Jeju Island from Tokyo.

"How could you..."

Ayman, wearing a long trench coat and carrying a silver briefcase, wagged her finger at her husband:

"It's not just about the lake area. Territorial disputes are too low-level. It's time to promote a pro-American and anti-China movement and divide South Korea."

Not only Ayman, but also Tulsi Gabbard and several U.S. intelligence personnel targeting South Korea appeared in the small camp soon after. The intelligence manipulation team consisted of more than forty people, many of whom were of Korean descent in the United States.

Tursie and Li Xinghe high-fived and hugged, as if old friends were reuniting. She exclaimed:

"The White House is eager to see political transformation in South Korea, and I will personally take charge of the changes in the South Korean political landscape."

This essentially means that the situation opened up by Lee Sung-ha allowed the CIA to take full control of political change in South Korea.

Li Xinghe thought Vance was a bit out of his mind.

This eagerness to make South Korea fully pro-American and anti-China, turning it into the front line against China, while the US is unwilling to get involved directly and is only using South Korea as a shield, and this unilateral approach of wanting both the Asian and Ukraine alternatives, will likely have very different consequences.

At least in South Korea, the privileges of the CIA branch are amplified to an unlimited extent.

But since he's going to do whatever he wants, let him be.

In any case, it's South Korea that suffers.

Furthermore, Lee Sung-ha is also vying for control of the CIA branch in South Korea.

……

After the CIA gradually took over, the situation in South Korea quickly became extremely divided.

After all, the CIA is a master at manipulating public opinion under the control of the state; they are a standard professional team.

They manipulate the media and extremist YouTubers they control, and use controversial algorithms on social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter to incite even more extreme rhetoric.

"South Korea is now beset by internal and external troubles and is in dire straits! It must fully side with the United States and attract more American support!"

This is the traditional pro-American faction.

They are hyping up political factors.

"Expel all Chinese in South Korea! Expel North Korean defectors in South Korea! They are all Chinese spies who will attack our invincible South Korean army and cause trouble in the streets once war breaks out."

This is an extreme anti-China faction.

Their numbers are relatively small, but they are expanding at an extremely rapid pace. Hyping up the story of Chinese infiltrators has become their absolute secret to expanding their voter base and strengthening their electoral base.

"If South Korea became a state of the United States, wouldn't that scare away China and drive Japan out?"

This is an absolute pro-American faction, with only one goal: to curry favor with the US.

With the drama unfolding at Socotra Rock, news channels frequently showing photos of US and Chinese fleets confronting each other and Japanese and Russian fleets spraying water, South Korea's energy supply chains being severely disrupted by military confrontation, and people facing soaring prices, hardship, and even starvation, extremist forces are naturally more likely to expand.

The political goals proposed by the center-left politicians of the Democratic Party appear so weak and ineffective that they have already suffered a major defeat in election predictions.

At that time, the CIA promoted a rather peculiar political slogan:

Are you Korean?

Amidst fierce partisan strife, the CIA seized upon the peculiar tool of genetic nationalism.

Because human genes are indeed unchangeable, even the Emperor wouldn't dare to arbitrarily undergo genetic testing, let alone South Koreans. The CIA organized a large group of far-right South Korean bloggers to post their forged genetic test certificates online. Regardless of their actual genetic makeup, they all emphasized that they were the purest O2B South Koreans, inciting their followers to also get genetic testing to find any Chinese lurking in the population.

Koreans are superstitious about physiognomy and consult it before doing anything. Far-right bloggers have combined physiognomy with genetics, believing that everything about a person is predetermined by their genes, and that if the genes are set well, everything will be auspicious.

Thus, in addition to regional disputes and left-right disputes, the CIA attempted to open up a third type of civilian dispute, namely the so-called 'genetic dispute'.

Proving that one is a pure-blooded Korean has become a major challenge.

Do you want to get genetic testing?

What if the test shows I'm Chinese?

Unexpected?

If you don't get tested, far-right voters won't let you off the hook; they'll directly label anyone unwilling to get their genes tested as a Chinese national infiltrator.

Therefore, between January and February, even though there was no military invasion, South Korean society went into a frenzy of activity as the election was about to end.

Far-right forces infiltrated the National Power Party and quickly gained control of public discourse, openly posting racist advertisements:

"If you have the O3 gene, then you are a Chinese person lurking among us!"

If any member of the National Power Party refuses to undergo genetic testing, they will be ousted from power and listed as a 'hidden Chinese'.

This issue of genetic testing has become a very bizarre phenomenon. In South Korea, lawmakers are pressured by voters to publicly disclose their genetic testing results. If they are found to have the 03 gene, they are removed from the purebred race, and their party may even proactively replace them, pushing someone with the 02B gene as a candidate.

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