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The following is a list of border incidents involving North and South Korea since the Korean Armistice Agreement of July 27, 1953, ended large scale military action of the Korean War. Most of these incidents took place near either the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) or the Northern Limit Line (NLL). This list includes engagements on land, air ...
The Blue House raid, also known in South Korea as the 21 January Incident (Korean: 1·21 사태), was a raid launched by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate President of South Korea Park Chung Hee in his residence at the Blue House in Seoul, on 21 January, 1968.
The South Korean police initially suspected that the co-pilot conspired with two North Korean agents in the hijacking. [7] The night after the hijacking, 100,000 South Koreans held a mass rally in freezing weather to protest about the hijacking, and burned an effigy of Kim Il Sung. [8] On 25 December, North Korea proposed to hold talks on the ...
With North and South Korea engaged in high-stakes Olympic diplomacy, Kim Shin-jo says 1968 was the "year that mattered most" for North-South relations. ... just 10 miles from South Korea's border ...
The speech reflected North Korea's goals, which aimed to topple Park's administration from the inside, by raising an insurgency through spreading North Korean propaganda. In doing so, North Korea sought to level the playing ground and avoid a war of attrition , one that Kim was sure he would lose, given United States land, air, and sea support ...
Low-slung buildings, blue huts and somber soldiers dot the border village of Panmunjom inside the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, the swath of land between North and South Korea where a U.S. soldier ...
Events from the year 1968 in North Korea. Incumbents. Premier: Kim Il Sung; Supreme Leader: Kim Il Sung; Events. 23 January – Pueblo Incident; Deaths. 5 March ...
Similar incidents took place on June 9 and June 18, each involving some 20 to 30 North Korean soldiers briefly crossing the demarcation line and retreating shortly after the South Koreans ...