South Koreans infiltrated North Korea during the Cold War
On Sept. 29, the same day that North and South Korean athletes marched
hand in hand at the opening of the Busan Asian Games, a group of former
covert operators took to the streets in a bloody confrontation with
Seoul police.
Source : Base21
by Christian/Base21 Media Activist
dvs-b@t-online.de
During the Cold War period, South Korea trained paramilitary agents for
missions of infiltration and destruction in North Korea. Some of these
trainees were sent on missions from which few returned. But the
survivors are not fading away.
On Sept. 29, the same day that North and South Korean athletes marched
hand in hand at the opening of the Busan Asian Games, a group of former
covert operators took to the streets in a bloody confrontation with
Seoul police. They demanded monetary compensation and recognition of
their role in a decades-long state policy. They say they were lied to,
brutalized and then abandoned by their government.
There are no official data on the scale of the operations, but a
Millennium Democratic Party lawmaker, Kim Seong-ho, has what may be
semiofficial information. Between 1951 and 1972, he reports, 7,726 men
crossed the border on secret missions. Nearly 5,300 of them did not
make it back; 300 are confirmed dead in North Korean territory, 130 are
known to have been arrested and 4,849 are missing. About 200 made it
back badly injured, and 2,244 returned sound and settled back into
civilian life.
For a disturbing first-hand account of the South Korean covert operation training programs, please click here.
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