The Fall of Pyongyang (part 2)
As the U.S. forces advance into North Korea, Kim deicdes to unleash a desperate but deadly strategy. He orders the reactors at Yongbyon to be heated up and turned to critical in order to create a nuclear explosion when Coalition forces arrive. Secondly, he orders all nuclear test devices to be destroyed before they can be found, in order to disprove the American justifcation for war. Finally, he orders the use of Chemical and Biological weapons on South Korea, Japan and Coalition forces.
Fortunately, his orders are not obeyed. The scientists tasked with the destruction of the nuclear warheads surrender to the Americans. After American threats of Nuclear attack if any WMD are used by the North Koreans, the WMD troops also surrender, just as the Iraqi ones did in the 2003 invasion. But the reactor technicians, literally forced under gunpoint, succeed in creating a Chernobyl like explosion in Yongbyon - but Japanese soldiers in radiation suits quickly put a stop to their actions, and declare a 20 mile exclusion zone around Yongbyon, while reactor specialists put out the fires deliberately caused by the North Koreans. The area is evacuated due to contamination. The action is condemned throughout the world.
Three days later, U.S. forces are advancing on Pyongyang. The city is beseiged by artillery fire and aerial bombing, routing out enemy positions. It is in pyongyang where the real drama occurs.
President Bush advises President Hu to evacuate the Chinese embassy - it may be targeted, since he knows Korean government officials are known to be hiding there. So Hu announces a mass evacuation of the embassy, similar to operation frequent wind. But then he expands it to evacuate staff from the Iranian, Zimbabwean and Venezualan embassies, all of which whose govnernments have had known weapons dealing with the DPRK, and which the U.S. considers as targets. Then the evacuation list is expanded to include Korean worker's party members and military officials, on the insastance of Hugo Chavez. This annoys Washington, as it fears some of those behind the attempted detonation fo Yongbyon and the Bio/Chem war attacks may be saved. Under pressure, China announces that it will not evacuate any Korean government officials, or any members of the military. Chavez is pissed. But in the real situation, things do not go totally to plan, and the fall of Pyongyang will become a chaotic evacuation almost resulting in confrontation, amid the fall of a regime and a capital left in Chaos.
The U.S. embassy had already been evacuated before the war. Now another evacuation takes place.
On the 31st May, 2008, the first Chinese helicopter, a Z-15, lands on top of the Chinese embassy. The first load of staff scramble onto it, and it takes off. Below them, a crowd of desperate koreans, believing that their city will be turned into another Baghdad, plead for help. Their desperation grows wild and they break into the embassy as the next helicopter lands. Many of the people are clinging to belongings believing they will be stolen should looting occur. This will add to the weight, so the Chinese guards struggle to keep them back, eventually being forced to fire warning shots. More embassy officials, together with some Korean refugees, are lifted out by the second helicopter. Soon a whole fleet of helicopters is landing on top of the Pyongyang buildings, evacuating mostly remaining Chinese economic or military advisors. One amusing incident occurs at Koryo hotel, where actor Sean Penn (on another peace visit before the war, stupid idiot) and his journalist buddies, including John Simpson wave for help to a passing Mi-17 from the top of the Koryo Hotel. Below them, U.S. forces swarm through Pyongyang. The pilot recognises them (he's a big movie buff) and picks them up, cramming them in with evacuated embassy staff and Korean refugees. He is later court-martialed for adding extra load to the helicopter.
The scene in the city soon becomes chaotic as the M1 Abrams and Bradley tanks push further into Pyongyang. At the Iranian embassy, the staff, under orders direct from Ayatollah Khamanei, burn all secret documents relating to missile sales - they hurriedly do this before they board the helicopters. Similar procedures are taken by the Venezualan and Zimbabwean embassy staff.
As the tanks push in further, the refugees become more desperate. Some cling onto the helicopter landing skids as they take off. It is later found out that a good number of them are minor communist party mebers and their families, but China keeps this a secret. Others are simply fleeing from a war-torn country which they fear will go the same way as Iraq. Korean troops bravely try to hold the Americans off as the Helicopters leave. The final helicopters are seen taking off from the Kim Il-Sung stadium and the Party congress building just as U.S. tanks break through the barricade surrounding it and the main Square, which is held by determined KPA troops. Amidst the Chaos, Kim Jong-Il takes poison in his residence in the city moments before a Delta force team reaches him.
Some anti-regime Koreans, gathering in huge crowds, cheer as the tanks enter and throw stones at helicopters carrying away party officials (the KPAAF also uses its helicopters for evacuation, adding to the chaos). The staues of Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung are pulled down and desecrated in a similar way to the statues of Saddam. Thousands of happy North koreans raise the SK flag and hold up pictures of Bush. Three weeks later, North and South Korea become one country again. There is not as much chaos as in Baghad, but there is mass looting of the evacuated embassies and Kim Jong-Il's palaces, and former government buildings, but SK police are moved in, and order is quickly restored. The SK government works to rebuild the impoverished North.
There is one incident that has occured during the evacuation. A U.S. mechanized division, riding in humvees, spotted several NK generals rushing to a Chinese helicopter on top of the arch of triumph. They opened fire, and the Chinese guards returned fire. A brief firefight resulted, but the helicopter managed to get away, taking the KPA generals with them. So far Bejing has denied they were generals, but both governments are eager to keep the situation under wraps, not wanting another major confrontation. President Hu had never planned to evacuate high-level personnale, but in the ensuing chaos, some managed to get away. China returned all the high-level leaders it had evacuated which had been responsible for crimes against humanity to Korea two years later. The fall of pyongyang becomes the most dramatic evacuation and takover since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
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