What if every moment-past, present, and future-existed all at once, layered like fragile glass over a single, unbreakable now? And what if time itself was not the open road to freedom, but a meticulously constructed prison-one whose walls we only notice when they begin to crack?In the shadowed fissures of the 38th Parallel, where the Korean DMZ has long stood as the world's most fortified scar, a covert war has been raging far beneath the headlines.