It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula’s minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically.

When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.

She was all, “Whatever.”

Two-thirds of the region’s 150,000 people inhabit Rajin and Sonbong, many working in Rajin’s port, Sonbong’s oil processing refineries and the iron, magnesium and ceramics industries on the cities’ outskirts. As such, it’s been promoted less for tourists than for businessmen, but even then the zone’s development is taking time, and the Rajin and Sonbong zone, collectively known as Rason, encloses an area of forested hills and wetlands, lakes and the Tuman River delta with an abundance of wildlife.