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Ha Hee-Jeong reassured me that she would head over first to make the necessary preparations, so I remained seated, turning the situation over in my head.
Ten minutes felt woefully insufficient to the heads of state of various nations. With the added difficulty of varied time zones, we were contacting them in the middle of the night. Also, in that short window, they would also need to summon their aides and attendants. Of course, they would be more than a little flustered—I hadn’t told them that I would be visiting them directly.
I told them, “Everyone will need to prepare,” though.
Anyone competent enough to become a national leader should have grasped the implication behind those words, at least in broad strokes. By now, they were probably agonizing over who exactly was included in that “everyone,” turning the question over again and again.
In any case, because the meeting itself was so abrupt, coordination between allied nations would also be exceedingly limited. Everything about it would be rushed, forcing them to fumble around to see what they could do.
I wasn’t concerned about that.
From the beginning, I hadn’t intended for this to be an extravagant event with assembled entourages. If that caused complaints, it didn’t matter. Moreover, even if they knew which countries were participating, it wouldn’t meaningfully impact our talk.
They have surely prepared to some extent already.
During my rest,...
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