The Plan to Conquer Yanbian and Hunchun (2)

There is a truly enormous amount of preparation involved in moving even a family of four just once.

You have to scour the internet to figure out where a good place to move would be, and afterward, you have to put in the legwork of visiting the places in person.

Once you have chosen the area, you have to visit nearby real estate agencies and look through every house on the market to decide which one would be best for your family.

After choosing a house, you have to figure out how much of a bank loan you need to buy it, how to come up with any shortfall, and so on...

With a little exaggeration, you have to prepare as fiercely and meticulously as if you were studying for some exam.

If moving just one family of four takes this much effort, then resettling thousands of such households is... well...

"I'm only just starting to sketch the draft, and already there's a mountain of work. I'll be buried under paperwork and die before I can finish preparing."

I'm not joking; it's because I have far too much to do right now.

The tasks I was discussing with Choe Yun-deok just now are the tip of the iceberg—or rather, barely the iceberg's claws.

Without exaggerating at all, the policies I discussed with Choe Yun-deok were nothing more than 'securing the bare minimum of defense needed to keep the resettled people from being wiped out by those barbarian bastards.'...