NationStates Jolt Archive

The approved line had been towed and some wordy glorification of the Kurosite Progress and the Drapoel victory over the Republic of Korea had been fed through the Central Directorature’s censorship machine. The few foreign journalists allowed in had now been escorted back out, and at least one set about writing-up details that wouldn’t have passed unchecked. DaKhiem, in its isolation, was lead to believe Beth Gellen communism akin to Kurosite, and as such hardly expected this journalist to -in the eyes of the CPRD- go rogue.

Comrade Secretary Hotan had wasted little time orating on trifles such as the detonation over the CPRD of at least four nuclear devices or what was by the outside world being called the Seoul Death March. He was concerning himself and his comrades instead with new production targets, the raising of fresh home defence organisations, and the building of new type cities. A few of the official pictures reputed to show the Secretary at the flag raising in Seoul, but probably it was Kosong; the timing seemed to conflict with the testimony of our hero, which placed the Secretary firmly north of the 38th parallel at the time claimed.

The journalist had witnessed significant feats of engineering achieved by a people with little equipment, and impressive military parades in a nation supposedly ravaged by war against a coalition of wealthier states. He told of DaKhiem’s pledges and aims with regards to the restructuring of Dra-pol’s armed forces after the partial unification of the Korean peninsula.

Drapoel public video screens -like so many banners, murals, and posters- churned out the official images also cleared for distribution through foreign news agencies in China, Beth Gellert, the African Commonwealth, Daylam, and anywhere else that comrade Secretary Hotan hadn’t –in the last few weeks at least- sworn to destroy.

The world was introduced to the Kuro Student Defence League, which put on painstakingly choreographed displays of colourful nationalist pageantry involving tens of thousands of comrades. Stadia seemed to have been erected over night, and in fact most had, prefabricated stands having been hoisted up in a matter of hours often by the manual power of those who would sit in them. Just about every one of precious few People’s Army Air Force flyovers was visually recorded, native-build KJ-1 Feda Kwong attack fighters being used because no one outside Dra-pol knew exactly how primitive they were, unlike the hundreds of Su-15 and Su-17 crammed into reinforced hangars across the republic. Chengdu J-10 remained grounded to preserve their valuable airframes. DaKhiem made sure to provide a cheery soundtrack of Kurosite reunification pop, and the comrade Secretary himself was kind enough to pose at a subway station.

Our hero’s later independent reports imply that the track, indeed the tunnel itself continued for barely a few dozen yards beyond shot, and that the CPRD doesn’t actually appear to have any passenger trains. True, the grand public works would probably be completed, and quite soon, but the probability of the Drapoel people’s narrow technological base turning out electric trains at local collectives seemed slim.

The journalist couldn’t refute the grandeur of the KSDL displays however, speaking and writing of massive performances carried off without a hitch. Dances, moving ‘human murals’, songs performed by thousands keeping time and clear annunciation of revolutionary ideals and dreams of unification, all went smoothly along with gigantic military-style drills.

In both official and later accounts, the Secretary is said to announce new defence branches to be established with the consolidation of the newly named Unified People’s Army. The Central Directorature’s plans have been dubbed The Two-Billion Struggle, as they apparently call for realisation to roughly co-inside with the CPRD’s projected attainment of that population figure. Details are said to be forth-coming in later editions of publications and programmes such as Beth Gellert’s Iskra!.

(ooc:And I’m afraid I either don’t know or can’t remember the names of anyone else’s relevant state or other major media corporations.)

Although the "rogue" journalist spoke on many subjects, from DaKhiem's comical attempt to pass off some joke of a prefabrication for a native-build electric train to his suspicions on the use of South Korean civilians to clear radioactive wreckage around the former DMZ (now deep inside Drapoel territory), it would be hard to avoid beginning with reference to Hotan's speeches on the future of the military.

Of course the People's Army was to be altered- it was now the Unified People's Army, although our journalist hadn't reported encountering any South Koreans in the service. Essentially everything was to be rebuilt in the old model, which had arguably worked rather well.

The difference was at home.

"...and conferred upon him (Hotan) the long absent title of Director." Writes our hero, before going on to outline Comrade Director Hotan's "Two Billion Struggle" plan for a new home defence organisation. It appears that his plans not only secure the defence of Drapoel territory, but seek to extend the fanatical indoctrination of the Republic's populace through a newly changed climate of industrialisation and international contact.

The scheme was of mind blowingly epic proportion and in the finest Drapoel tradition. It was a public work the likes of which could probably not be contemplated outside the dominion of the eccentric Choson People's Republic.

The People’s Rear Defence Organisation was to be central to the new struggle. 125 million persons, men and women aged 17-44 and 17-32 respectively, who are not part of the Unified People’s Army or primary rear-area military infrastructure are, according to statements attributed to Hotan, set to be organised for service to the PRDO.
The UPA will supervise the PRDO, which will train for around forty days a year. The PRDO is to be active in contingencies, with units potentially serving under UPA or Banat officers, and is supposed to be capable of limited offensive operations on a local scale and for a limited time. UPA mechanised elements may be attached to PRDO formations. This organisation constitutes the core of the nation’s reserves and would be tasked with fairly heavy combat operations in the event of invasion, especially if the UPA was seriously deployed to the south. Much of the light equipment used by UPA formations is also, according to the foreign journalist, available to the PRDO.

The already impressive (on the drill field) Kuro Student Defence League is no less awing in the Two-Billion Struggle plan. 100 million 13-16yr old students drilling each Sunday for five hours (260hrs a year) plus variably scheduled off-campus drills totalling 340 further yearly hours must be able to achieve something significant. In peace the KSDL is organised by Local Civil Defence Directoratures, and in contingencies shall be answerable to the Unified People’s Army.
KSDL fighters would be armed, so our journalist hypothesises, mainly with 6.5mm and 7.7mm Type-99 bolt-action rifles, 8mm sub-machineguns, hand-grenades, and other explosives.
The League would be officially tasked with observation of enemy movements in its locale, sabotage, reinforcing checkpoints and other reserve/militia-staffed positions. It is, we hear, conceivable that KSDL units may be used more aggressively on a local scale should the republic’s situation become critical.

It is the League that may be most chilling in many respects. The pace of Kurosite progress and the disregard for victims of the War of Unification provide wonder enough, but the sheer size of the KSDL, combined with the discipline and commitment seen in seemingly innocent public displays is something unique. The intensity of indoctrination remaining in the CPRD after various foreign enterprises against the DaKhiem leadership is clear in the League, and it has frightening military potential.
Though part time, defensive, and a children’s army, the considered KSDL’s indoctrination and discipline may well have created effective soldiers. It is known that without expensive modern military training a very small minority of human beings will shoot to kill their peers, it has been known for generations, and this perhaps more than anything else is what traditionally makes modern western armies so effective. Almost anywhere in the world, a class of high school children given rifles and told to fight might shoot to kill in just a couple of percent of cases- would this be so of KSDL members faced with alien none-Drapoel soldiers?

Also announced in Hotan’s recent addresses was the Working Women’s Home Brigade. 2 million unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO even now train for up to forty days a year. The Brigade is primarily concerned with operating air defence machineguns on ridges and over valleys around sensitive areas. They provide rotational skeleton crews for many positions during peacetime, meaning that a fairly high state of readiness is maintained off duty.

The final part of the CPRD’s new home defence organisation is the vast United Worker’s Militia, comprised of 275 million older men aged 45-60, men aged 17-44 who are not part of the PRDO or UPA, and unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO, UPA, or WWHB. This unit is secondary to the PRDO and its strengths will lie in the intimidation factor provided by such a massive mobilisation and in harassing invaders across any part of the country without relent. The UWM tends to be modestly equipped and reliant upon ex-service arms from before the Republic’s opening and recent Kuro progress. It clearly could not be mobilised into a coherent mobile army even on a regional scale, and would presumably mean that rolling local resistance would face invaders through every inch of Drapoel soil.

To much time in your hands!!!!!!!!



=Boring life!!

To much time in your hands!!!!!!!!



=Boring life!!

OOC:
This is a fun hobby to some people, would it be better if they were sitting around watching random tv program with some of their free time?

I have and I'm sure Dra-pol has a life outside of NS.

and a
*Tag*

ooc: Mhm, it's true that ignorance can be blissful. I've forgotten why I opened this window, probably because I am drunk,

ooc: Mhm, it's true that ignorance can be blissful. I've forgotten why I opened this window, probably because I am drunk,



I never drank until my wedding night....I was fucking wasted!!!

Oooh, damn you, Dra-Pol! We'll best you yet!

In secret training centers around Kilean, they drilled, moving lockstep in rapdid movements that bespoke of years of training. They were elite, they were the best of the best, and quietly, they were being infiltrated into the African Commonwealth. The peace settlements were not going to go quite as Dra-Pol planned.


Oh, no, not at all- the Kileanishemadchensbund's elite mass polka dancers would give those damn Kurosan youth league brats a run for their money!

(Hehe, damn you!)
[In northern Seoul, ninety thousand schoolgirls leap uniformly five feet into the air, and cartwheel through one anothers legs to a dramatic final pose, while ten thousand comrades bounce shiny balls and sing Reunification Rainbow in perfect time]

(ooc: Don't worry, this is previously known to involved, of course. We pretty much need foreign media to get anything told, anyway.)

Iskra!: Aircrash in sensitive waters- journalist killed

The ditching into the Indian Ocean of what was believed to be a small chartered jet has killed whistle-blowing journalist Frank Wiltord just two weeks after the publication that looked set to make his journalistic reputation.

Wiltord, 31 of Victoria Salvadorian Port Edward, was amongst three people killed when the Nicobarese jet descended suddenly into waters near Grand Island, lately colonised by ultra-capitalist Andaman and Nicobar.

Controversy already surrounds the incident as the aircraft was new and apparently experiencing no difficulties as it lifted-off from the yet poorly developed and under-policed Nicobarese province. Wiltord was just two instalments into a month-long four-part serialisation of his new exposition on the Hermit Kingdom of Dra-pol, which was being published by Iskra! as well as several foreign papers, and was due to land on Grand Island to negotiate with several Nicobarese organisations. Speculation over the cause of the crash has already latched on to several unconfirmed reports on the possibile involvement of a surface-based attack on the aircraft, possibly originating from the New Tiamatian mainland over which the plane descended.

If such an attack did bring down the plane, it seems logical to assume that comrade Wiltord, as the only passenger, was the target. This in itself has caused some further suspicion, as Wiltord should not have been negotiating the publication of Iskra!-funded works without representation from the Beth Gellen Commonwealth Professional Civil Service.

Part three of the serialisation was to be entitled, Sul-pol and the Drapoel empire, our mistake in the Tiamatian badlands. Of course such an inflammatory heading has only made matters worse for those of us who can't stand conspiracy theories, or being intensely confused.

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Meanwhile, in Korea, the Drapoel wheel of life and revolutionary progress is to be seen fluttering right across what has evidently been claimed for the Choson People's Republic, and wire fences are springing-up across the most advanced positions attainable by the UPA without bypassing opposition forces. The Drapoel effort to press for a start to the peace talks in Kinshasa has been minimal at best.

#tagged...

How much information was lost with Wiltord when he and his laptop sank into the Indian Ocean remains unknown, but a search of his residence on Salvador recovered several notes and dictaphone tapes.

Many deal with the Unified People's Army and the People's Army Air Force, though vague reference to apparently significant naval expansion was also found in one document. All of the information remains unconfirmed.

The data informs the believer that Drapoel men between the ages of 17 and 44, and women from 17 to 32 are subject to potential UPA service, and that (apparently Director) Hotan's present struggle aims at a force seventy million strong.

No one can doubt that this would have to be a largely straight-leg infantry force, but disparate sections of Wiltord's documentation speak of massive mechanisation plans. "Assault Divisions 2 remain - 200k APCs 132k tanks+45k amphibious" the journalist scrawls in one notepad. On an audio tape Wiltord's lowered voice is heard purportedly describing a UPA parade featuring countless armoured vehicles, a frightening 190mm self-propelled gun amongst them. By contrast he also describes what experts believe to be Chi-To(M(odern)) medium tanks- a design born of a WWII Japanese experimental vehicle of the type believed to have face the Quinntonians when they stumbled ashore in Dra-pol in the '90s. If these vehicles are still in service it would suggest that DaKhiem's Kurosite Progress is far from all encompassing, and that quantity continues to prevail over quality- something likely to result from the narrow, specialist technological base available to the isolated republic. It appears -if Wiltord is to be believed- that the air defence field is one such area of specialty, his sightings pointing to averages that would suggest perhaps a third of a million top-of-the-line Manpads in UPA hands. No mere SA-7s, the Drapoel are known to weild deadly Chinese QW-2 missiles.

Most interestingly, Wiltord's record appear to show no encounters at all with the Red Bamboo, though he clearly references expansion of the Banat combat sections to include more than two million commandos. Is the Red Bamboo dead? Consumed by the Banat? Underground? Is Wiltord mistaken, lying, or are his records incomplete?

The fact that these records did not travel with Wiltord on his ill-fated flight to to the ISAN suggests to some that he has disregarded it for future publication, and others to suspect that this was because he'd made-up something better. Others are not so sure. Either way, their is no doubting Drapoel determination to impose the CPRD upon territory marked-out in documents even now being displayed in Kinshasa, African Commonwealth.

In the house of the dead journalist, in the dead of the night, an ISD agent slides open a window and gets ready for another cliched cloak-and-dagger job. Kilean intelligence is finding out everything they can about this man, who he is, and what he did.

Beacuse the Kilean government is scared shitless if this guy is right.


Although the Dra-Pol had destroyed most of the Kilean navy during the war, a navy salvage ship is dispatched from Kilean, moving at speed twards the crash site.

They will find out what took down that plane.