The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel

by Jeffrey Lewis

All agreed, however, that the Americans had been slow to recognize that South Koreans no longer saw themselves as junior partners in the defense of their own country and its citizens.

“We were so worried that the Americans might try to stop us,” Im explained, “that it never occurred to us they might make things worse. I don’t even use Twitter.”

For many of the people who survived, and who saw more death in those two days than they might have expected to see in a dozen lives, the luckiest ones were those for whom morning never came.

Asked about a proposal for a new tactical nuclear weapon, he responded, “I don’t think there’s any such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon. Any nuclear weapon used any time is a strategic game changer.”

“The president just said, ‘Absolutely beautiful,’” recalled a staffer. “I started to cry.”