Pack small case. Drive to airport. Fly to Seoul. Check in at the Renaissance Hotel on Yoksam-Dong as part of a trade mission to South Korea. Have a few lunch meetings with 'businessmen' in downtown Seoul, away from the Financial District. Change hotels to one on the outskirts of town, somewhere up on Subway Line 4 or 6, Nowon-gu or Gangbuk-gu say.
Private car to the airstrip as the sun sets and onto a small Cessna reconnaissance flight over the border. Parachute into the gully above Kimchaek, deep in North Korea now. Wait four hours in very cold rain. Meet Sonjan-wu and two women at the deserted farm buildings lying to the south of the field system. Long time no see Sonjan. Overnight at the safe house near Ssangpoi-dong, then an early morning moped ride to the perimeter fencing of the Ghonghzu complex. Photo opportunities galore! Once inside the fencing a slow crawl towards the unmanned and seemingly deserted bunkers on the east side of the makeshift runway. The ground still smells of kerosene and rocket fuel and is scorched from the last test rocket that set off from here just 10 days earlier. There's clearly more going on here than you would expect from the aerial photos?
Oh for the life of an international spy in these times of turmoil!
All because of some ageing individual that is slowly turning insane and paranoid about South Korea and the west & testing his nuclear arsenal. Or could we be being had again? Strange how the media is hotting up the 'threat from North Korea', the 'evil despot of the last vestiges of communism' at a time when there's a lot to be focusing in home politics..
strangely coincidental..
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