Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most brazen incursion into South Korea to date. From its subversion camps, it dispatched 31 North Korean agents into the South in a meticulously planned attempt to assassinate South Korean President Chung Hee Park. Their orders: make their way into the Blue House residence of the President in Seoul, cut off Park's head and pitch it into the street. The attack marked the first time since the Korean armistice in 1953 that a large number of North Korean terrorists had had the audacity to enter the capital...
...threats against their relatives or offers of lighter sentences, but the news that they had been taken back to Korea touched off a furor in Western Europe, where most of them lived. France and West Germany, neither of which has extradition treaties with South Korea, lodged official protests with Seoul...
Early in November, 34 defendants went on trial in Seoul: eleven who had been living in West Germany, three from France, and one each from the J.S. and Austria, among other places. Nine were women. The government prosecutors charged that the defendants had made a total of 19 visits to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and 142 trips to East Berlin to undergo espionage training and receive instructions from North Korean secret agents. They were also accused of receiving more than $77,000 in operational funds from the Communists from 1958 to 1967. In evidence, the government showed...
Last week a three-judge tribunal of the Seoul District Criminal Court delivered its verdicts. It found 31 of the 34 defendants guilty. Two were sentenced to death: Kyu Myung Chung, 39, a Frankfurt University physicist, and Yong Su Cho, 34, a professor of French, both of whom supplied Pyongyang with military and political information about South Korea. Four others were condemned to life imprisonment, including Composer Yun, and the rest given prison terms from one to 15 years, which they may appeal...
...quietly returned reform-minded President Chung Hee Park to office for another four-year term. Last week, after separate elections for the National Assembly, South Korea suddenly reverted to its old noisy ways. For five straight days, thousands of high school and university students boiled through the streets of Seoul and 14 other cities, waving angry placards ("We demand new elections"), throwing rocks and bottles, and fighting through a police barrage of tear gas and night sticks...