This section opens with a first-person narrative from someone called the Interrogator, an otherwise nameless character who performs "soft torture" on enemies of the North Korean state. We're told that this is the last we'll hear of Jun Do. Mongnan helps him gather what he needs to survive, and she promises to help him. The medics enlist his help in draining the dying of their blood supply. Jun Do meets Mongnan, who photographs all newcomers and all the deceased. He doesn't understand why he's being imprisoned. Once back, the interrogator sends Jun Do with some "medics" to a prison camp in the North. The Senator's wife gives him a dog for his supposed wife, Sun Moon.īut things don't go well: the Koreans don't get the equipment back, and they're in trouble. Wanda gives him a special camera that will send images directly to her phone via satellite. Once in Texas, the Senator's wife and a security specialist called Wanda befriend Jun Do, especially after seeing his wounds. They are to negotiate the return of a nuclear material detector that North Korea had stolen from Japan and the Americans had confiscated. Song and Comrade Buc, who is Sun Moon's neighbor. Jun Do is sent on a mission to America with Dr. It soon becomes clear that she won't get her wish.
Jun Do recovers at the house of the Second Mate's wife, who is waiting to be reassigned a swank new husband in Pyongyang. Jun Do gets the snot beaten out of him by an interrogator-though he is later declared a hero. The crewmembers give Jun Do a shark bite to authenticate the story. In this version, the Second Mate is thrown to the sharks. To cover up, the remaining crew makes up a story about a second American boarding of their ship. The Second Mate, disillusioned, uses a life raft to defect-and Jun Do can't stop him. Jun Do and the Second Mate realize that some ghostly transmissions they'd received are really from the International Space Station, which defies their North Korean notions that the whole world is in conflict and out to get North Korea. The Second Mate is made a hero, and the crew puts back out to sea in good standing. The crewmembers make up an elaborate story about the Americans boarding their vessel and tell it to interrogators when they get to shore. He chooses the beautiful actress Sun Moon as his "chest wife."
Jun Do does a very bad job pretending to be a fisherman, and the Captain decides to give him a chest tattoo like the rest of the crew so that he'll fit in better. The Second Mate tries to stand up to them, but the Captain intervenes. One day, the fishing boat is boarded by an American naval crew. Jun Do feels special sympathy with the night shift rower. He eventually forms bonds with the Captain and the young Second Mate, who share his enthusiasm for the broadcasts of two American female rowers attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean. Jun Do is then put to work on a fishing vessel, intercepting and translating international radio communications. He's rewarded with a trip to language school, where he learns English. Even though he feels twinges of conscience-especially when he contributes to the death of an innocent Japanese woman-he does everything he's told. After some years, Jun Do's conscripted into kidnapping work because of his skills at fighting in the dark. It's dangerous work usually doled out to orphans, who are considered expendable. When he's 14, Jun Do becomes a tunnel soldier in the military. He does everything he's asked, sometimes making some morally questionable decisions in the process. Jun Do has heavy responsibilities at the orphanage, including naming all the new boys, portioning out the meager rations, and assigning the boys to dangerous work details. He's convinced that the Orphan Master is actually his father and that the beautiful woman in a photo hanging from his wall is his mother.
We're introduced to Pak Jun Do, a North Korean boy who begins life in an poor orphanage.
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