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";s:4:"text";s:4222:" On November 29, 1987, North Korean agents hid a bomb on Korean Airlines Flight 858, killing all 115 on board.
It was later learned that the bombing was intended to destabilize the South Korean government and to scare off participants in the upcoming Olympic Games to be held in Seoul the following summer.
Korean Air Flight 858 was a scheduled international passenger flight between Baghdad, Iraq and Seoul, South Korea.On 29 November 1987, the aircraft flying that route exploded in mid-air upon the detonation of a bomb planted inside an overhead storage bin in the airplane's passenger cabin by two North Korean agents.. DUNLOP: In November 1987, a scheduled Korean Air airliner [formerly Korean Air Lines (KAL)] flying East from the Persian Gulf and bound for Bangkok and Seoul, disappeared over the Andaman Sea, just South of Burma [now Myanmar]….All of the [passengers] were killed. Once Korean Air Flight 858 was back in the air, the bomb exploded and killed all 115 people on board, most of them from South Korea. Korean Air Flight 858 Aircraft accident. AD Then, Kim largely disappeared from the public spotlight. But you prepare yourself for that. Korean Air Flight 858 Korean Airlines Flight 858 flying from Abu Dhabi to Seoul, exploded over the sea near Burma, killing all 115 passengers and crew members on board on 29th November 1987.
So I authorized it in principle, It's kind of scary that ... [there is] this plane with hundreds of people and you have to call a decision like that.
The two agents, acting upon orders from the North Korean government, planted the device in an overhead storage bin before disembarking from the aircraft during the first stop-over in On 12 November 1987, the two North Korean agents traveled from On 27 November, two guidance officers who had arrived in Yugoslavia by train from Vienna gave them the On the second leg of the flight, from Abu Dhabi to Thailand, KAL 858 was carrying 104 passengers and 11 crew members.After the attack, the bombers attempted to fly from Abu Dhabi to The escape route, she said, was to be from Abu Dhabi via In January 1988, Kim announced at a press conference held by the Kim Jong-il became the leader of North Korea in 1994, succeeding his father.In 2010, Kim visited Japan, where she met the families of Japanese people Tensions between North Korea and South Korea have not subsided since the signing of the armistice in 1953, and no formal peace treaty permanently ending the conflict has been signed.Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. After the pardoning, she wrote a book, "Tears of My Soul," donating the proceeds to family members of KAL Flight 858 victims. The downing of KA Flight 858. When Korean Air Lines flight 858 exploded in 1987, killing 115 passengers, international law-enforcement officials immediately started searching for the hardened North Korean terrorists who could have committed such a crime.