Nuclear Surprise by Rob Carnell

Author:Rob Carnell [Carnell, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rob Carnell
Published: 2013-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 56

Onchon Air Force Base

North Korea

02.45pm

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Kim’S RIDE was waiting for him outside his office building when he strode out carrying his briefcase in his left hand and his flight case in his right.

The colonel’s uniform opens a lot of doors in North Korea, and he was ushered into the tack room and was in a flight suit in a matter of minutes.

He was in the left seat of the trainer five minutes later, and was at full power on the western runway when he firmly pulled back on the stick and headed into the firmament three minutes after that.

He reduced power for a steady climb and leveled off at fifteen thousand feet, twenty five miles from the airfield. He made the minimum radio calls required.

Then Kim made his final decision.

He made a mayday call on his regular frequency, then switched his radio frequency to the international distress frequency and made a similar call.

Instead of turning right when he crossed the coast, he turned left, applied full power and dove for the ground. The old plane shook as he pulled back on the stick, he hoped the old wings would stand the 4g shock and leveled out at one hundred and fifty feet. Low flying took a great deal of skill, and Kim was concentrating hard to miss the waves splashing below. This old bird had none of the modern navigation aids of terrain following radar guidance.

North Korea had been paranoid about attack from the south. It’s ageing Chinese and Russian radars were the spotters for their missile racks. Kim was betting that they were not expecting traffic south, or that they simple were switched off or inoperable, either way, Kim was right.

It is less then two hundred miles from Pyongyang to Seoul, even less from the military airfield east of the city. As he was approaching the border to the south, he made another mayday call on the international frequency, climbed to five thousand feet and throttled back to two hundred knots.

From the border it is only forty eight miles to the nearest military airbase.

Two minutes later he was joined by a pair of US made F-15K Slam Eagles in South Korean livery. They shook their wings, the international sign for follow me.

Kim breathed a huge sign of relief and followed his guardian angels to freedom.

As soon as Kim had taxied to a stop at the military airfield, his aircraft was surrounded by soldiers waving M-16s.

He shut down his engines for the last time, and climbed down slowly and announced in passable English "I am Colonel Kim of the Korean People’s Army Air force, I have important information, and request asylum in the United States."

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