Axis of Evil by Bobby Akart

Author:Bobby Akart [Akart, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

November 12

35th Fighter Wing

Misawa Air Force Base

Japan

It was day four after they’d received their orders and redeployed to a specially designated, secure compound at Misawa Air Force Base. The base was shared with elements of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, which had occupied the area as a military stronghold since 1870 when it was established as a stud farm for the Japanese emperor’s cavalry. Although the bulk of the facilities were utilized by the U.S. Air Force’s 35th Fighter Wing, a secured, high-clearance complex was set aside for the 373rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, or ISRG.

The ISRG provided Misawa and the Pacific Command with strategic intelligence and real-time monitoring of operations within the theater. Today, ISRG was hosting the deputy director of the Korea Mission Center, a division of the CIA dedicated to dealing with Kim Jong-un and North Korea. He was conducting a private briefing with Duncan and Park.

“Gentlemen, my name is Walter Campbell, deputy director of the Korea Mission Center. I’m meeting with you in private for a reason. Over the last four days, you’ve been expected to familiarize yourself with your insertion point, the timetable and locales of your mission, and your extraction. Do you feel adequately prepared for what’s about to be asked of you?”

Park and Duncan looked at one another and shrugged. Duncan, who’d learned from his father to hold his tongue, resisted the urge to respond with, yeah, I can now go sightseeing in North Korea. Other than that, the answer is most likely no.

“Yes, sir,” responded Duncan, appropriately. Campbell looked to Park, who nodded as well.

“Gentlemen, in three days, our source within the DPRK has provided solid intelligence that the North Koreans will be launching an ICBM test at Kusong. Do you know where that is?”

Duncan bristled at the unnecessary question meant to ferret out whether they were prepared. He and Park had studied and drilled one another on the geography and history of the region, including the importance of the DPRK’s military base at Kusong as an ICBM launch facility. He decided to throw it back at the condescending spook.

“Forty degrees north, one hundred twenty-five degrees, ten minutes east is the location of the ICBM launchpad, which was constructed in 2014, July,” replied Duncan smugly.

Campbell didn’t reply or acknowledge Duncan’s obvious snarky response. “At 8:00 a.m. local time on the fifteenth, the DPRK has scheduled a launch of an ICBM missile. Kim Jong-un will be there to observe. Your orders are to assassinate him while he is available in a semipublic setting.”

Duncan leaned back in his chair and allowed the directive to sink in. Killing a member of the Kim dynasty of leaders in North Korea had always ended in failure and ruin for the assassins. The Kim regime and its predecessors had fought off challengers since the days of Japanese colonialism on the Korean Peninsula in the 1930s. When communist regimes were collapsing around the world in the 1990s, the Kims’ hold on power continued.

Despite geopolitical challenges and lethal

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