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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States
PvOberstein: Williams, John (August 5, 2018). "Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel". The New York Times.
'''The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States''' is a novel by [[Jeffrey Lewis (academic)|Jeffrey Lewis]] describing a hypothetical [[nuclear attack]] by [[North Korea]] against the [[United States of America]], published by [[Mariner Books]]. It is written in the style of a government report written in the aftermath of the conflict, in 2023.
==Plot==
The conflict begins unintentionally, with a North Korean [[KN-06]] unit near the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] shooting down a civilian [[Air Busan]] [[Airbus A320]] which had drifted off-course, having mistaken it for a U.S. [[stealth aircraft]]. [[President of South Korea|South Korean President]] [[Moon Jae-in]] orders a retaliatory attack on North Korea without the approval of the United States, firing six missiles at the Headquarters of the [[Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force]] near [[Pyongyang]] and a residence of [[Kim Jong-un]].
Following the missile attack, North Korea's leadership, lacking communications infrastructure, misinterprets [[Twitter#Tweets|Tweets]] from U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] so as to believe that a [[decapitation strike]] is in-progress.<ref name="tellus"></ref> North Korea launches nuclear missiles in the hopes of starving off further U.S.-South Korean attacks, with nuclear bombs detonating over [[Seoul]], [[Busan]], and [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], as well as launching missiles at military targets in [[Guam]] and [[Okinawa]].
The United States launches a retaliatory conventional strike on North Korea, but fail to locate the vehicle-mobile [[intercontinental ballistic missiles]] in North Korea's arsenal. North Korea proceeds to launch 13 nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States. The [[Ground-Based Interceptor|Ground-Based Interceptors]] at [[Fort Greely]] fail to intercept the incoming ICBMs, which detonate over [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], [[Jupiter, Florida]], and [[Manhattan, New York]]. President Trump evacuates from [[Mar-a-Lago]] aboard [[Air Force One]], narrowly avoiding the nuclear explosion. Kim Jong-un subsequently commits suicide at a bunker in [[Myohyangsan]], and [[Mike Pence]] succeeds Trump as [[President of the United States]].
==Reception==
The book received positive reviews, with [[Julian Borger]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' comparing it to nuclear war stories ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' and ''[[On the Beach (1959 film)|On the Beach]]''.<ref name="Borger"></ref> ''[[The Economist]]'' observed that "The terrifying thing about "The 2020 Commission Report" is how much of it is real".<ref name="economist"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:2018 American novels]]
[[Category:American war novels]]
[[Category:Nuclear war and weapons in popular culture]]
==Plot==
The conflict begins unintentionally, with a North Korean [[KN-06]] unit near the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] shooting down a civilian [[Air Busan]] [[Airbus A320]] which had drifted off-course, having mistaken it for a U.S. [[stealth aircraft]]. [[President of South Korea|South Korean President]] [[Moon Jae-in]] orders a retaliatory attack on North Korea without the approval of the United States, firing six missiles at the Headquarters of the [[Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force]] near [[Pyongyang]] and a residence of [[Kim Jong-un]].
Following the missile attack, North Korea's leadership, lacking communications infrastructure, misinterprets [[Twitter#Tweets|Tweets]] from U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] so as to believe that a [[decapitation strike]] is in-progress.<ref name="tellus"></ref> North Korea launches nuclear missiles in the hopes of starving off further U.S.-South Korean attacks, with nuclear bombs detonating over [[Seoul]], [[Busan]], and [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], as well as launching missiles at military targets in [[Guam]] and [[Okinawa]].
The United States launches a retaliatory conventional strike on North Korea, but fail to locate the vehicle-mobile [[intercontinental ballistic missiles]] in North Korea's arsenal. North Korea proceeds to launch 13 nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States. The [[Ground-Based Interceptor|Ground-Based Interceptors]] at [[Fort Greely]] fail to intercept the incoming ICBMs, which detonate over [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], [[Jupiter, Florida]], and [[Manhattan, New York]]. President Trump evacuates from [[Mar-a-Lago]] aboard [[Air Force One]], narrowly avoiding the nuclear explosion. Kim Jong-un subsequently commits suicide at a bunker in [[Myohyangsan]], and [[Mike Pence]] succeeds Trump as [[President of the United States]].
==Reception==
The book received positive reviews, with [[Julian Borger]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' comparing it to nuclear war stories ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' and ''[[On the Beach (1959 film)|On the Beach]]''.<ref name="Borger"></ref> ''[[The Economist]]'' observed that "The terrifying thing about "The 2020 Commission Report" is how much of it is real".<ref name="economist"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:2018 American novels]]
[[Category:American war novels]]
[[Category:Nuclear war and weapons in popular culture]]
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