The Alexandria Project, Chapter 23: Sarin? You Thought I Said Sarin?

“General Chan Bok-choy, ranking general of the Peoples Army of
North Korea, was walking across a broad plaza at the side of the
President of the Supreme People’s Assembly. They had just left a
meeting with the Dear Leader, and had only a few minutes to
converse without being overheard by their aides, or by those in the
listening rooms that monitored the microphones that were
everywhere.

“General Bok-choy knew that they were not completely safe from
surveillance even here. Doubtless, some member of the Secret Police
was filming them from a hidden location using a telescopic lens, so
that another agent could later try to read their lips. For that
reason, the General walked with his hands clasped behind his back
and his head bowed. Being at the top of the chain of command in the
paranoid, otherworld of North Korea meant you were always being
spied on by everyone else in the inner circle. And, of course, you
were spying on them as well.”

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