Entrusted Agent Wi Shin-ho

“Who is this man with the codename ‘Trainee’?”

“Director, he’s the same agent from KPT you know about.”

“Why that codename?”

“The KPT program ended, and we changed it last month to erase any trace of it.”

She says this is the first time she learned his real name, Wi Sinho, and reads through his record.

“He served in the ROK Army. Then he worked as a newspaper reporter in Seoul before being transferred from the action team of the Korean National Intelligence Service. During airborne training with our special forces, he was moved to a CIA training center.”

“He seems to have deliberately chosen training programs all along, so we gave him the codename Trainee.”

“So he’s a NIS agent being trained under our custody? And when we assign him missions during training, he produces outstanding results.”

“That’s what we think, but the Korean side sees it differently.”

“Differently?”

“We, the CIA, and the Korean NIS all disagree on his status. However….”

“However?”

“He keeps producing excellent results on every external assignment mission. Director, rather than worrying about his identity, you’d be better off enjoying the mission-completion reports that keep coming in.”

“So where is he now?”

“He was in the basic training course for our NCS team, and now, together with the Secretary of State and Andy Kim, director of the Korea Mission Center….”

“He’s in Pyongyang.”

“Yes. Another mission assignment during training.”