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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.
October 30 - Ulchin-Samcheok (Gangwon-do) landings by 120 men of North Korean Army Unit 124; 110 of them were killed, 7 were captured and 3 escaped. 40 South Korean soldiers and police officers and 23 South Korean civilians were killed. December 23 - Crew of USS Pueblo released at Panmunjom.
Unit 124 was established from thirty-one handpicked officers of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the army of North Korea, specifically to infiltrate South Korea across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and assassinate Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, in his official residence at the Blue House in Seoul.
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.
Kim Shin-jo (Korean: 김신조; Hanja: 金新朝; born June 2, 1942) is one of two survivors of the 31-man team of North Korean commandos, known as Unit 124, sent to assassinate the then-president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, in the Blue House raid in January 1968.
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Park with future President Kim Young-sam in 1975. By the time of his assassination, Park had exercised dictatorial power over South Korea for nearly 18 years. [3]The Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) was created in 1961 to coordinate both domestic and international intelligence activities, including those of the military. [4]
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