The Invitation-Only Zone
“With prolonged negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons, tensions were high and there had been several such announcements over the past few months. The United States had accused the regime of diverting plutonium from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor to make warheads and had demanded that the United Nations be allowed to inspect the site. North Korea refused, and threatened to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty. By June, the situation had grown so dire that President Clinton approved p...lans to send cruise missiles and F-117 fighters to destroy the reactor—an act of aggression he knew was likely to lead to all-out war.Kaoru had heard a disturbing rumor that was going around Pyongyang. During a meeting about the nuclear crisis, Kim Il-sung allegedly asked his son what he would do if war came and the North lost. The famously hawkish Kim Jong-il replied, “If that happens, I will blow up the earth. Because without the DPRK, the earth need not exist!” As military drills increased and the tone of the North Korean media grew more belligerent, Kaoru feared war was inevitable, and he devised a plan to keep his family together.With his children about to return to school, he brought his daughter to a remote graveyard nestled in a pine forest, where he occasionally retreated to think.MoreLess
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