The Chinese Shadow Game

In a North Korean Gulag, MI6 agent Roger Jones was suffering unimaginable torture, because of something he discovered during a routine mission concerning the illegal sale of restricted military satellite technology to the Chinese. Before his sudden, and in the age of détente and globalism, inexplicable disappearance in Shanghai, he left MI6 a message; he had found out something important and would report back the next day. It concerned a joint Chinese North Korean operation called Jieguan, involving the use of a satellite missile defence system.
This was not the first disappearance of intelligence personnel from the West recently for no apparent reason. The question the head of MI6, Steven Bartholomew, asked himself was: “why, after all the Cold War had long since ended”.