Pak Jun Do/Imposter Commander Ga Timeline & Summary

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• Though Jun Do lives at Long Tomorrows, an orphanage in Chongjin, North Korea, he's pretty sure that his dad is really the Orphan Master.
• Jun Do has big responsibilities at the orphanage, including naming the newcomers and assigning them to work details.
• Jun Do becomes a tunnel soldier at 14 after a period of famine destroys the orphanage. He's later recruited as a kidnapper for DPRK. Best take? A Japanese opera diva.
• Jun Do sticks with this job for a few years, then goes to language school to learn English.
• Jun Do moves onto a fishing vessel to listen to international radio transmissions.
• Jun Do picks up the broadcasts of two female rowers crossing the Pacific by themselves. He becomes obsessed with the rower on the night shift.
• The boat is boarded by an American naval crew. Jun Do's story earns the Second Mate hero status.
• Jun Do receives a tattoo of the actress Sun Moon on his chest; now she is his "wife."
• Jun Do learns that the girl rowers are in trouble, but he can't help them.
• Jun Do catches the Second Mate in the act of defecting but can't stop him. He gets a "shark bite" to authenticate the story of the Second Mate's "death."
• Jun Do is beaten when he tells the story to interrogators—but then he's declared a hero.
• The Second Mate's widow nurses Jun Do back to health, and they fall for each other a bit.
• Jun Do goes with Dr. Song and Comrade Buc to visit an American Senator from Texas. He asks Wanda about the Second Mate and gives her a list of his kidnap victims. Wanda sees his tattoo and mis-IDs him as Commander Ga.
• Wanda gives Jun Do a digital camera linked to her mobile phone so he can take pictures of North Korea.
• Jun Do runs afoul of the Senator and has bad news to deliver to the Dear Leader.
• Jun Do is sent to Prison 33 upon return from America. Mongnan helps him survive.
• The story of Jun Do ends, and his life as the impostor Commander Ga begins.
• As Ga, Jun Do taken to Division 42 and tortured. He's wanted for the murder of Sun Moon.
• Ga promises the Interrogator and crew that he will tell the story if they will answer one question. He tells them that one of their own was in prison with him and they beat him for "lying."
• Ga remembers leaving Prison 33 and meeting Sun Moon for the first time. He impersonated Commander Ga and took Mongnan's photos with him.
• Ga has to live in the tunnel outside the house with Brando until he returns to work.
• Ga lives with Sun Moon and her children as a "replacement husband" while he works on a project for the Dear Leader.
• Ga visits with the American rower, who is a prisoner in the Dear Leader's bunker.
• Comrade Buc reveals his escape plan for his family: it's a can of tainted peaches. He shares a can with Ga, should he have his own "emergency."
• Ga tells Sun Moon the story of how he killed her husband and escaped Prison 33.
• Impostor Ga finds the real Ga's laptop with pictures and maps on it. At work, he prepares a Texas-style ranch for the American delegates.
• Ga and Sun Moon watch Casablanca together, and she decides to defect with his help.
• Ga tells Comrade Buc of his plans to defect with Sun Moon and the children. Buc convinces Ga to remain behind in North Korea and take the fall for it.
• Ga conveys his wishes to Wanda by photographing a note written by the rower girl.
• Ga tells the Interrogator the story of moving the Texas ranch to the airport tarmac—but too late to save Jujack.
• After Sun Moon returns from a late-night meeting with the Dear Leader, Ga gets her life story. They wind up making love.
• In Division 42, Commander Park cuts Ga's tattoo of Sun Moon off his chest and sends it to the Dear Leader.
• The Interrogator hooks Ga up to one autopilot and himself to another. Ga slips his restraints to deliver himself a lethal dose of electricity.
• We learn about Sun Moon's defection and Ga's part in the dramatic episode.
• Ga sics Brando on Commander Park to keep him from discovering Sun Moon and the children concealed in barrels. She and the children escape on the American plane.
• Ga tells the Dear Leader that he's been trumped—Ga has taken the thing most precious to him.
• Ga and Buc are taken into custody and brought to Division 42.
• Finally, Ga makes an appearance in the Best North Korean Story—this time as a hero and martyr in the story of Sun Moon's "abduction" by aggressive Americans.
• At the end of this story, Ga dives off the wing of Sun Moon's plane and becomes a human missile, aiming at the deck of an American aircraft carrier.