My fiction, A Daughter of Red Communist Spy, is a a story of a girl named Su who is cursed from birth, has nothing but unbreakable spirit to live on. She lives her life the best way she could, thereby achieving all.
The story begins in 1979 the most turbulent times of Korea’s modern history and ends in 1994 when the Communist dictator, North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung dies, or killed. Stuck in the unfinished Korean War two Koreas, North and South, are suffered from the aftermath. Su’s family is one example of millions who is victimized by the conflict between two brother countries.
From birth Su is fated to close Kim Il-Sung who is the one of the worst dictators in modern history. Her father was a Communist spy and lived up to it sacrificing everything including his family. Once in South Korea spying was a crime to be sentenced to death and still the national safety law prohibits from any personal contact with North Koreans. And if one of your family members were a Communist you would be forever labeled by it facing unimaginable discrimination.
It's the biggest sin ever she's committed that she was born into a communist spy father who was insane all her life. Brought up as a daughter of convicted Communist spy she’s been condemned by his father’s reputation. It is worth to live a difficult life if one has guts to live bravely but when it comes with her father Su feels as near as defeated. Her father, Man-Pa has been slaved to Kim Il-Sung unable to free from him until his death. It’s Su who squares up to the fate and decides to kill Kim Il-Sung when his son Kim Jong-Il traps her in a low trick.
Always I love to read books about a self-willed girl who lives her own life no matter how hard it is. The heroin, Su, is everything I like to read from such books.
Su is fearless and flawless in heart and soul. Yet she’s controversial in many ways unable to being an ordinary girl in ordinary time: Her father is a lunatic, ex-communist spy who’s had a close relationship with Kim Il-Sung. Her mean-spirited mother abuses her. Later she learns the root of her mother’s hatred that she was a product of incest between Man-Pa and his half-sister. Her aunt is a mudang, the Korean female shaman or sorceress, who’s being is a part of mystery. Su bears child without father when she is eighteen years old. She marries a man once she swore to kill. Finally she earns a reputation being a woman with a divine beauty along with iron will after trials and hard works.
I used to complain about the endless list of suffering female characters in various novels. Su is not a "good girl" who tends to love conventionally. She doesn’t allow herself drop down that category. Three times she’s in love and each time she has to risk a great deal.
The first love is a kind of forbidden one that is between two girls. One day a girl named Jung Il-Kook transfers to her school from abroad. With a look of Hong Kong movie star Leslie Chung, her androgynous appeal attracts much unwanted attention. It’s an uncommon love affair two girls would encounter under certain circumstances. After many breaking offs and making ups they keep the relationship intact.
Her second love is a Cinderella story; a poor girl meets a prince charming. Only the ending is varied. The poor girl refuses to marry the prince. It’s a beautifully tragic melodrama. Su falls violently in love with an aristocratic young man Ban Joseph. It’s never meant to be happy-ending but remains forever in their hearts. When they are parted, he’s in West Germany and she remains in Seoul, she finds herself with child.
And finally she runs to her destiny. Lee Shin is her male counterpart and the mirror image of herself. In the beginning of their relationship Su swears to kill him and he responds the same way. Once sworn to evil Lee Shin is a godless and guiltless young man. They encounter in the middle of a terrible crime scene and since then their life run parallel with many surprising events.
When her life reaches almost perfect circle Jin Su falls in a trap that she must make a choice between her own life and Kim Il-Sung’. North Korean agent who work for Kim Jung-Il, the eldest son of Kim Il-Sung and the second most powerful man in North Korea besides his father, kidnap her. She is shipped to Pyongyang to be offered for Kim Il-Sung as his Girl Medicine, a sacrificing girl for his immortality. She could only escape from the terrible blow if she kills the god-like man. On the night of offering she prepares to kill him with an ordinary needle, which is the only weapon she could hide in her gown. She has one chance to kill the man that she has to prick the tennis ball size lump on the back of his neck. Either she fails or succeeds it would cost her life.
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