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The Ganghwa Island shooting occurred on July 4, 2011, at 11:50 a.m. at a coastal base in Ganghwa County when Kim Minchan, a South Korean marine corporal assigned to the South Korean 2nd Marine Division, went on a shooting spree towards his team with a K-2 rifle and later attempted a suicide with a grenade. [1]
The 2014 South Korea shooting spree took place on June 21, 2014, when a mass shooting perpetrated by Lim Do-bin that began around 20:15 p.m. in the 13th outpost of the 55th Regiment of the South Korean army's 22nd Infantry Division in Goseong County, Gangwon, South Korea.
August 20, 2024: A North Korean Army Staff Sergeant defects to South Korea after crossing the DMZ near Goseong County, Gangwon. The soldier is immediately taken into custody by South Korean soldiers. [90] October 15, 2024: North Korea blows up communication roads connecting to South Korea and threatens to end all ties.
More than 1,000 South Korean military, police and emergency personnel joined rare defence drills on Wednesday that simulated an attack by North Korea on Seoul, to counter fears the city is in ...
A California man who allegedly confessed to helping the North Korean regime prepare for an attack on South Korea was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in what federal investigators described as a ...
On the same day, South Korea and the United States began the annual Hoguk exercise, a large-scale military drill involving the South Korean and US militaries. The 2010 exercise involved 70,000 troops from all four branches of the South Korean military, equipped with 600 tracked vehicles, 90 helicopters, 50 warships, and 500 aircraft.
On August 18, 1976, a group of five Korean Service Corps (KSC) personnel escorted by a UNC security team consisting of Captain Arthur Bonifas; his South Korean army counterpart, Captain Kim; the platoon leader of the current platoon in the area, First Lieutenant Mark Barrett; and 11 enlisted personnel, both American and South Korean, [4] went into the JSA to prune the tree.
The three-day firing exercises, which began Wednesday, involved 5,400 South Korean and U.S. soldiers, 300 artillery systems, 1,000 vehicles and air force assets, according to South Korea’s military.