The Baja California Mixup

The Baja California Mixup, AKA the Korean Sleeper Cell Confusion, was an incident that occurred in Baja California, Mexico, after a Chinese sailor had transported 200 Korean gangsters to the coasts of Baja California, Mexico, where the boat was intercepted by the Mexican Navy, leading to the arrests of all 200 Korean gangsters for conspiracy. This incident took place during the 2011 Singapore I-Mail scandal, which may have led to the murder of Amy and Tao Tang.

## Background

Amy Tang was the wife of steel mogul, Tao Tang, and was a major benefactor to the SCS, a subsidiary of the SZPC ran by Stephen Wu. Ricardo Wong, Chief of the CIU, sent over $10,000,000 (USD) to Tao Tang for the purpose of building training facilities across the U.S state of California for PIAT soldiers and Indonesian rebels, under the guise that they were farms. Amy Tang was completely aware of what was happening and managed to strike a deal between nearly all Indonesian rebel organizations, sharing an ideal of struggle and nonaggression, this event was titled the Steel Pact. Amy Tang helped construct these "farms" throughout California, she would also help to harbour SPILADE members into her estates. It is speculated that Stephen Wu had ran an operation funded by the SCS, this operation would take rebels from the Philippines and Malaysia and would send them into the Tang facilities for specialized training, these rebels would then be stationed into Indonesia and Singapore where they would be known as Steel Pact Rebels. One of the most important figures in this operation was Taiwanese scientist, Shin Jin Chin, who took refuge in the United States and after a deal with Amy Tang, would lead the training operations throughout the facilities. Another key member was Jason Cheng, one of the "Four Godfathers of Sichuan," he was responsible for recruiting various Korean gangsters to increase the strength of the SCS, however this may have been a fatal mistake and may have lead to the murder of Amy and Tao Tang.

## The Mixup

On the day that 800 Korean gangsters were to be sent for training in California, they were divided into groups of 200, they were taken via boat, however one of the boats was driven by a Chinese sailor, his name is Zhen Kung but that is unimportant. Due to being hired on a very short notice, the gangsters quickly boarded Zhen's boat, when Zhen asked where they were headed, the gangsters could only understand a little bit of Chinese, they responded in a very broken Chinese, "take us down California," due to the language barrier, Zhen had though they said to take them to Lower California, mostly known as Baja California in Mexico.

In a statement by Zhen about the situation, he stated;

"It was not my intention to mistake the destination, it was only because we were in a hurry and there was no time between to discuss important details, I have been sailing for only a week now, when I heard I would be transporting members of the SCS, I had no choice but to take them."

By the time the boat had arrived to what everyone thought was California, they were intercepted by the Mexican Navy, at first the Korean gangsters did not notice that the boat was Mexican and they thought that it was another group of their team, however the patrol boat yelled at the gangsters to surrender immediately as one of the crew members had spotted one of the gangsters flailing around a gun in celebration.

Ship Captain Ramón C. Malagón, stated;

"Usually when foreign ships are coming to our harbours, we get notified a day before, in this case, we were not expecting any arrivals that day. We were going to tell them to go back, however one of my crewmates had said that one of the men had been carrying a gun, we had no choice but to force the ship to surrender."

## Aftermath

All 200 Korean gangsters were arrested and charged for, smuggling and possession of illegal firearms, and conspiracy, the Mexican government had though that the Korean gangsters were spies sent by the Korean government, however during a meeting between the two countries, the Korean government proved that they were not affiliated with the gangsters, nor were they trying to spy on the Mexican government. The Navy interrogated the ship captain, Zhen, and after understanding the situation, the Navy mocked the gangsters for "making such a stupid mistake."

The 600 gangsters that made it to California heard about this incident and were enraged about the loss of their brothers, blaming the Tangs for the incident because they failed to notify the sailor about the destination. One of the gangsters, Kim Jung Bun, led a small revolt against the Tangs, Kim's rebellion kidnapped Tao Tang and after he gave up the location of his wife, he was killed right after. Kim decided he'd face Amy Tang himself, he had her tied to a chair and filmed the execution live on Facebook and YouTube, there was a total of 20,000 viewers. Kim stated that he was going to take revenge for each of the 200 brothers he lost and proceeded to shoot Amy Tang a total of 200 times, "one bullet for [each of] my brothers" Kim stated before the stream was cut.

This incident was the first of the many Tang incidents, the rebellion led by Kim Jung Bun would become independent and would be known as the Jung Bun Mafia, now operating in various parts of Korea. This incident has been reported by the media as the most embarrassing accident in the world, and has brought shame to Korean gangsters across the world. This day is celebrated in Mexico as a festival, especially in Tijuana, with people partying on the beaches of Tijuana, praising the efforts of the Mexican Navy.