Their missions end in one disaster after another. The Soviets plan to use these units as vanguards of their planned attack on Man churia and Korea. Park is arrested soon after and spills on the Soviet training programs in Siberia. Han Hung Son and Kim Chun Sop, both Soviet captains, are also arrested and executed. Stalin does not object.
Cholera hits our town.
She says the animal was a reincarnati on of a distant relative. I remain unconscious for five days delirious with fever. My relatives and neighbors gather in our house and do the right thing for my dead brother by wailing and eating more or less at the same time. The coffin starts to drip liquid in t he summer heat and all those people in the house. My uncle Park places the coffin in his ox cart and heads to our family burial ground.