Plot summary
Supreme Leader of North Korea Choi Ha-guk is incapacitated after a test accident involving an experimental Russian nuclear missile at the Musudan-ri missile test facility. Politburo member Eun Pak takes advantage of the opportunity to stage a coup and initiate a full-scale invasion of South Korea, preceded by teams of North Korean special operations forces (KPASOF) infiltrating the country to perform acts of sabotage. Pak also takes Choi’s sister Me-sun, who had been present at the failed missile test along with a delegation of Russian scientists, as a hostage.
Jack Ryan, Jr. goes to Seoul, South Korea, with fellow Campus operative Lisanne Robertson to interview potential Campus recruit Isabel Yang. He finds himself in the middle of a riot orchestrated by a team of KPASOF forces who detonate an ambulance, killing several protesters as the entire country is placed on lockdown. Ryan later meets Yang, who tells him that she had received a cryptic message from Russian doctor and former college roommate Kira Sidorova telling her to run.
With the help of Campus IT director Gavin Biery, Ryan pinpoints Kira’s last location to the Musudan-ri test facility, where she had been part of the Russian delegation. He is also contacted by an unknown party through the scientist, who informs him of an impending attack at the Port of Busan. Ryan informs Campus operations director John Clark, who tasks him with investigating and stopping the attacks.
Regrouping with Lisanne at a nearby hotel, Ryan and Yang encounter Green Beret snipers Cary Marks and Jad Mustafa, who had previously crossed paths with Ryan in Syria and had also evaded North Korean operators engaging in assassinations while participating in an urban training exercise in Seoul. Leaving Yang with Lisanne, Ryan proceeds to the Port of Busan with Cary and Jad, arriving too late to stop a chemical attack during a riot outside an American bioweapons laboratory but managing to shoot the delivery device into the nearby sea. The unknown caller identifies herself as Me-sun, who tells Ryan about the coup and the invasion plans.
After informing Clark, Ryan infiltrates the Musudan-ri missile test facility with Cary and Jad and a Navy SEAL platoon. He rescues Kira from North Korean guards who attempt to rape her. The Navy SEALs later intercept a second nuclear missile nearby as Pak prepares to launch it, leaving Ryan to track down Me-sun, who had escaped the facility, as Cary and Jad provide overwatch.
Ryan finds Me-sun and accompanies her to the missile control room, where she convinces the assembling generals to stop mechanized infantry and armored divisions from reaching the Korean Demilitarized Zone before she is shot by Pak. Ryan then pursues and kills the Politburo member and links up with Cary and Jad, who had prevented the nuclear missile from launching by flying a kamikaze drone into its launcher. They are later rescued by Night Stalkers from being overrun by remaining North Korean forces at the test facility.
The Supreme Leader later recovers and calls for the North Korean special operations forces still in South Korea to return to their country. Ryan returns to Washington, D.C. two weeks later and reunites with Lisanne.
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