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October 18, 1967: Six South Korean agents crossed the DMZ and accessed a North Korean guard post, in the process 20 North Korean soldiers were killed and one South Korean agent died. [ 9 ] January 17, 1968: In an incident known as the Blue House Raid , a 31-man detachment from the Korean People's Army secretly crosses the DMZ on a mission to ...
The incident began at 11:27 am when a North Korean navy patrol boat crossed the NLL, which is not recognised by the DPRK, [3] followed by two verbal warnings from South Korean naval units. After one more warning announcement, one of the South Korean patrol boats fired a warning shot.
The Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking occurred on 11 December 1969. The aircraft, a Korean Air Lines NAMC YS-11 flying a domestic route from Gangneung Airbase in Gangneung, Gangwon, South Korea to Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, was hijacked at 12:25 PM by North Korean agent Cho Ch'ang-hŭi (조창희).
South Korea's military has assessed that the North Korean soldiers didn’t appear to have intentionally crossed the border because the site is a wooded area and MDL signs there weren’t clearly ...
The 1998 Sokcho submarine incident occurred on 22 June 1998, offshore of the South Korean city of Sokcho. Capture On 22 June, a North Korean Yugo-class submarine became entangled in a fishing driftnet in South Korean waters approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of the port of Sokcho and 33 kilometres (21 mi) south of the inter-Korean border.
Panmunjom axe murder incident), also known domestically as the Panmunjom axe atrocity incident (판문점 도끼 만행 사건), was the killing of two United Nations Command officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean ...
According to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, there was at least one recent incident in which a North Korean soldier, faced with possible capture by Ukrainian forces, tried to ...
The raid was launched by North Korean armed spies to assassinate the President of South Korea, Kim Young-sam, during his visit to Chunchon, on 5 October 1996. [ 4 ] Months after the start of the incident North Korea issued a rare apology for the events and ensuing loss of life.