A group of Korean agents were recruited by the motherland with the aim of assassinating President Kim Il Sung.
When they were told that the mission had been cancelled, they were facing the fate of their country as “dispersed.”
They turned the gun to the Blue House.
If you traveled to Korea and Seoul, the number one sightseeing site would be Blue House.
Since the Republic of Korea was founded in 1948 and until the President moved to office on May 8, this year, the Blue House has been the residence of the President of Korea, the centre of Korea.
But there is one strange thing — that none of the Seoul maps shows where the blue balconies are, as if they were found by someone else who fears it.
Basically, basically everyone in Korea knows how to get to the Blue House in Seoul, just as the Chinese always find their home in Beijing, so why is the map so hard to hide?
The Republic of Korea has learned a terrible lesson in developing such preventive measures.
The two attacks in history, which targeted Blue House for the first time, prompted the Korean Government to resolve to erase Blue House from the map.
A well-guarded blue balconies.
One.
It was on the 21st of January, 1968, far away. At that time, the capital of Korea, Seoul, had not changed its name to Seoul.
At around 9 p.m., a temporary checkpoint was set up on the road outside the Blue Watt.
A group of Korean soldiers were stopped in the dark. In the face of the inspection, they claimed to be a protection unit and were on their way to the Hyoko Tojo headquarters.
The chief of police, who had the cards, thought that while the group was wearing Korean military uniforms, there seemed to be something wrong with the broken black shoes on their feet.
He had previously been informed by his superiors that a group of unidentified armed elements had come from the north and crossed the 38th line in recent days, in a tense situation.
The roadblock blocked the entire road and stopped two vehicles behind the police. The group saw the road stopped, the look on their faces became more agitated, and saw the stopping vehicle, thinking it was reinforcements from the other side, and it finally became uneasy.
Bang!
The sound of a clear shot cuts through the night sky. The chief of police was shot and killed on the spot. The rest of the police responded and immediately went into a shoot-out, which also attracted soldiers from the Korea Capital Police Command, which is responsible for the perimeter security of Blue Watts.
The fighting was brutal, with armed elements causing 68 Korean military and police personnel killed or injured.
However, of the 31 armed elements, the vast majority were killed, with the exception of one who fled to the Democratic People ‘ s Republic of Korea, and only one who was captured at the foot of In Wangshan, outside the Ziu Xia Gate, the next morning.
The only armed man caught was Kim Shin-Jo. When he was dragged to a press conference and questioned about the purpose of sneaking into Korea, he admitted without fear: I came to pick Park Jung-hee’s head!
Park Jung Hee
Park Jung Hee, the then President of Korea.
He had a well-known daughter of the Chinese, who later became President of Korea.
The 31 school-level officers were selected by the Korean Government from the 124 forces specializing in post-enemy reconnaissance and assault.
On 5 January 1968, they were sent to the western Korean city of Shari ‘ a for secret training, with the aim of stabbing the Zhengxi and Park.
After the training, they stepped on the frozen Zinjiang and touched the border between Korea and Korea, cutting the barbed wire less than 30 metres from the United States-Korean military post, crossing the military demarcation line and sneaking into Korea.
The Korean military received information and deployed, but did not expect the Korean death squad to march at 10 km an hour.
When the Korean military set up dozens of defensive lines on their way to Seoul in Poezhou as a matter of urgency, they entered downtown Seoul.
It was only because of the roadblock and the fact that they thought that the other side had arrived, that the operation had to be lost.
This is the famous “121 Blue House attack” in Korean history.
For the DPRK, planning for the operation was also a one-off idea, and while success in a single strike is a surprise, failure is no loss, but the death of a few dead men.
But for South Korea, the event was far-reaching.
It did not cause substantial harm, but it set off Park Jung-hee’s anger, so the Korean government came up with a bold plan of revenge, which is…
In return, a death squad was formed to assassinate Kim Il Sung.
Kim Il Sung.
History has a vicious joke with the Korean government.
Two.
That 31 Koreans, they were ordinary Koreans.
Among them are vendors, shoe polishers, porters, repairers, circus actors, boxers and truck drivers, as well as gangsters, most of whom are perpetrators of minor criminal offences.
All they knew before was that the State had a mandate to give to them, if it had done so, to say goodbye to the past, to live a life away from the bottom of society and to become a national hero.
As a result, they have been involved in the darkest part of Korean history.
Curiously, why does the Korean government not go to the regular army to perform this extremely difficult task, but rather to put together such a trifling team?
It starts with Park Jung-hee, the master of the plan.
After the attack, Park Jung-hee was the target of the attack who felt most not in fear but in anger.
Within a month, he urgently convened 14 meetings to discuss reprisals against the DPRK.
The Chief of Staff and the Commander of the Marine Corps of the Air, Land and Land, convened by Kim Hyun Xu, then Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency of Korea, concluded with a proposal to set up a special unit to use night flights to drop bombs at the KIM Il Sung Palace of Gyung.
Mission falls on the air force.
But the Chief of Staff of the Air Force knew it well, like the “121 Blue Watts attack”, that was basically a suicide operation with no return.
The distance between Pyongyang, where Kim Il Sung is located, and the 38th line is twice as far as the Blue House, which means that the risk of operational exposure is doubled;
Moreover, Kim Il Sung must have thought that Park Jung Hee would turn his back and that you would have been waiting for you to come.
The Air Force had to send the elite troops it had trained to die. It’s a shame to put the lives of the elite soldiers in a hot-headed revenge plan.
That has to be done.
As a result, the military decided to re-recruit a group of people and train them to be “valorous” and die.
So, where do we find these people?
There are two ways.
On the one hand, the military has turned its eyes to gang members in Seoul, shoe polishers, ferry workers in Busan, and ordinary people in Wenshan and Poezhou, hoping to recruit a large number of people at once.
The military promised to “disbursify $600 a month during the mission, smoke a pack of cigarettes every two days, leave and freedom of communication”, “take them as candidates for military officers”, “get them a job in the United States military” and so on, and so on, in the event that people are not paying for their lives.
On the other hand, death sentences are sought in Busan, Daeju, Guangzhou, the anti-communist offices and prisons across the state. It’ll be easier to promise them what they’re going to do, if they’re forgiven for their crimes.
However, the Ministry of Justice later took into account that, under the law, death row prisoners were required to hand over the body to the family after execution.
If death row prisoners were sent to the DPRK, the body would certainly not return, which would be a social problem.
That’s why the military didn’t recruit from criminals for trouble.
In any case, there were a couple of kidnappings.
This figure is the same as the number of dead men sent by North Korea in the “121 Blue Watt attack”.
In April 1968, the 31 people who were destined to be abandoned were collectively dragged to an uninhabited island of only 2 square kilometres, 20 kilometres south-west of Incheon.
The island’s name is Minorushima.
The death squad for the plan of reprisals was finally established.
This 31-person unit is also called “Force 684” because it was formed.
The military did not declare in advance that you were going to assassinate Kim Il Sung and to die. Before going to the island, all 31 young men in their early 20s and early 30s had been deregistered. This is equivalent to the fact that they have since been legally dead.
In May 1968, a ceremony for the establishment of 684 troops was held on the island. At this time, in addition to 31 members of the team, there was one officer and 30 special forces in charge of training them on the island.
At the ceremony, all members of the 684th Army made a unified oath: “I shall be subject to any extreme punishment under the Military Penal Code, whether intentionally or not, in the course of military service, if I have acted negligently, evaded from duty, or by displeasure, incitement or any other circumstance prejudicial to the unit. I’m sorry.
Such an extreme oath is as if the following series of inhuman hell-style trainings and, ultimately, a prophecy of tragic fate.
3
Suboshima is like hell.
Members of the team found that the island was at the bottom of its ranks, where they were at the bottom of what they were expected to do.
The task entrusted to Kim Sun-hsiung by the military was to train this group of social scum with no combat experience in a short period of time as a special unit stronger than Unit 124.
In order to fulfil his mandate, he must first oppress his trainers and then let them oppress the members.
Kim Sun-ho told the instructors that the members of the team were “magic trash”, either thugs or criminals, and that there was no need for guilt to abuse them.
As a result of the sit-in system on the island and the failure to meet the standards of training for its members and the punishment of its trainers, the members of the team have become naturally angry with the instructors.
For those with a weak heart, Kim Sun-ho used an appalling and disgusting bias: ordering people to excavate the bones of the dead from their graves, grind them to powder, let them swallow them, or make them drink with wine.
It’s not just stupid, it’s crazy. But the goal was achieved.
Even the trainers were so badly beaten and how the members were tortured. Say a few more than we know:
They are forced to sleep with their bodies in order to eliminate fear;
When punished, the head is pushed into the dung;
The trainee who is behind him will be shot at the back of his heels;
When they drilled through the barbed wire, the instructor caught a slow step, and the net stinged on the crew, and the blood mixed with the mud underneath;
I don’t know.
Minorushima training facility
What survives, of course, is the Devil’s Terminator.
They are skilled in a range of ground-to-ground operations, such as night-to-night jumps, long air hold in water, mountain combat exercises, etc.;
Each member shoots 450 rounds a day, with an accuracy of over 98 per cent;
A man’s eyes can be punctured with a flying knife 10 meters away.
Swimming in the sea with full arms, mountain speed can reach an alarming 13 kilometres per hour, exceeding the level of Korea’s ace army.
In less than three months, they have been trained to be the perfect “killer machine”.
But not everyone can survive. Severe training and inhuman treatment have led to several deaths.
Some of them drowned in heavily armed swimming training, others were tortured alive.
When you see your companions die, the rest of you just bite your teeth tight.
It’s called a place to run.
Kim Sun-ho ill-treated the instructors, who ill-treated the members of the team, who were not allowed to ill-treat, and had to pin their hatred on Kim Il Sung, who was far away.
They finally learned that the ultimate goal of the training was to go to Korea to eliminate Kim Jong Il.
If informed from the outset that training is for this, even if it is more tempting, it is assumed that many will not agree to join because it sounds like a task that cannot be accomplished alive.
But at this point, everyone knows it’s impossible to get off the island. Only by going forward, through the bloody sea, can we reach the other side.
After three months of training, they were no longer in the streets, and they became a collective, with all the suffering that led them to believe that they were capable of carrying out their tasks and that they would be spared all the sins and given the opportunity to return to their heads.
They want, just an opportunity.
Those who survive are waiting for the Day of Revenge.
Finally, that day came, and they left Minorushima.
684 Full force
At the beginning of 1969, 684 troops were secretly transferred to Paik Island on the Korean-Korean border, awaiting orders to strike.
The arrows are on the string, the country needs them, and they are prepared for everything, with a single order, to be reborn upon completion of their mission, and the blood and sweat that has been shed for a year are worth it.
Who could have thought that for a month, the order came not to let them infiltrate the DPRK, but to ask them to stop fighting and immediately return to the island where the ghost would not want to remain?
684 troops have re-entered an endless despair.
What happened?
4
The 684 forces struggling to survive on the island know nothing about the outside world.
The world changed in the late 1960s. The DPRK has re-emphasized the North-South dialogue and hopes for a peaceful reunification strategy. The United States withdrew its troops near the 38th line.
Weak nations have never spoken and can only change over time.
Park is aware that, in order to consolidate its alliance with the United States, Park must ease relations with the DPRK.
The assassination of Kim Il-sung, from a forced national mission, suddenly became a taboo that cannot be done and cannot be mentioned.
The army is no longer a State-built secret weapon, but rather a cancer that scares the high-ranking officials in their coats of clothing and is turned into a paper towel that has been discarded by hand after its use.
The Korean government is in a long process of thinking about how to deal with 684 troops. If you can’t think about it, just leave it behind. Gradually, no one remembers Minorushima.
The military began to withhold supplies to the island.
The food of the troops changed from chicken soup to potato soup from the first to potato soup, and then without potatoes, the team members had to eat with dogs or go to the mountains to fight for snakes. There is also little heating fuel in winter.
After two long years of suffering, 684 members have been engaged in senseless, still brutal training day after day, hopes for a new life have been dashed, and ambition has evolved into anger and rage.
Two members of the team went to nearby Dancing Island for a drink and raped the village girl;
A long-standing backlog of grievances erupted and attacked the trainers… All were brutally beaten to death.
There are only 24 troops left.
At that time, the island became a corner completely forgotten by the outside world. And those who stayed on the island were like “breeding” and only the coldest and most brutal could survive.
In 1971, when the Korean government finally changed, a new group of decision makers decided to solve the problem of 684 troops. Kim Heng Xu, who had originally planned the retaliation plan, had stepped down, and 684 troops had become the worst problem for his new successor, which he found to be a hot potato.
No, it’s just a time bomb. They continue to be nourished, not to mention material and energy-intensive, and once the wind is leaked, they will themselves inexplicably take the fall for Kim Hak and become politically passive.
The new decision-making team thought about it, thought about it, and finally came up with a cold-blooded decision: to destroy all traces.
This so-called “all traces” includes people? It is hard to know whether or not the South Korean military at the time thought of it, and the only thing that is certain is that this vague instruction represents a lot of meaning and a lot of room for manoeuvre.
But there are no unwinded walls in the world, and there are always some clues that can show the shadows flowing under the shadow of calm. Not only the instructors who received the order, but even the 684 troops felt a climate of panic.
In the barracks, the team members were meeting and the news of the street was spreading.
When the words “disappear all traces” reached the members, everyone finally knew what fate was waiting for them.
It’s the last straw to overwhelm the camel.
No more fantasies. There is no hope anymore.
In the end, everyone was well aware that there was no alternative to killing those who stood before them.
In the late night of August 22, 1971, in the barracks after the lights went out, 24 members of the team went out in the dark and ended up making decisions about life and death.
But it is certain that they must have shed tears on their faces and burned anger in their hearts.
5
On 23 August, at around 6 a.m., the highest-ranking officer room on the island was quietly pushed out.
Two men marched silently on the ground until they stopped in front of Kim Jun-hsiung in his sleep, when they lifted their hammers and waved them with their long-standing hatred.
Jin Jun-ho died instantly. He was the one who made the killing machine.
Resistance begins.
At the same time, outside the barracks, other members of the team trained by the devil used the strategy of learning to split up, to kill with a knife the sentry on a surveillance mission and to kill with sticks and iron the instructor who was still awake in the dormitories.
The other route seized the island ‘ s only radio station, cutting off communications and preventing the outside world from knowing what was happening on the island.
Two members of the team who completed the mission to kill Jin Jun-hsiung also received significant results: They found guns and ammunition from the room and distributed them to other members of the team.
Many of the instructors were blind when the shots were ringing. Three of the instructors were in the toilet when they heard the gunshots and jumped off the pit to save their lives.
More instructors were killed before they could get their weapons. Some were wounded and fled to the cave, where they died the following day on their way to hospital.
The rest of the instructors finally reacted to a mutiny. They went down the mountain road and hid in a cave or in the woods.
Half an hour later, out of a total of 24 troops involved in the operation, at the cost of 2 men, successfully looted ammunition depots, seized machine guns, bullets, grenades and explosives and killed 18 instructors on the island.
Minorushima became a force of 684.
But this evil island is not their purpose. They want to leave the island immediately.
And? To North Korea to do their job?
No, they decided to go to the Blue House, to ask for a statement about what had happened to them, to find out whether they were martyrs who had died for their country or monsters abandoned by God.
If they’re monsters, then find those who created them and let him take responsibility for it.
Six.
On the south bank of Hanjiang, on your island, Seoul Yongdengpur District, KBS and MBC, sitting in the Korean National Assembly Hall, the International Finance Centre (IFC) Mall and Korea’s three major television stations, are South Korean political, financial and entertainment centres.
Back on August 23, 1971, it was the site of the first airport in Seoul, where a number of prominent Korean enterprises were concentrated in the nearby area of the Great Square Hole. The Incheon Line Tahua bus, licence plate No. 5-1681, is departing from the prescribed driving route and travelling at a fast speed.
The driver of the bus was the 684 member who fled the island.
At around 8 a.m., 22 members of the team climbed from a pile of dead people with all their equipment and, as they were dying, used rubber-coated ferries to climb to the nearest dance island, then boarded a fishing boat and reached the sea off the island of Incheon.
In Pine Island, they were stopped by the Coast Guard. They showed up their parachute markings, which puzzled the Coast Guard, and the men in their turds and their eyes were shining, were vicious and heavily armed, but looked like soldiers, had to be let go.
The Coast Guard was still a little shaky, and reported to the army that “about 20 soldiers in camouflage clothes with automatic weapons are moving”.
At 1300 hours, after an exchange of fire that lasted only three or five minutes, the Army attempted to stop it, and the 684 troops lost 3 persons.
There are 19 remaining.
The demon-trained team hijacked two buses in succession and engaged in several shootings with the local police.
After the bus was pulled over, 684 troops and police were fighting.
No one can slow them down, and they continue to march relentlessly towards Seoul.
At 14.15 p.m., it took only half a day for them to break into the centre of Han City in a bus and reach the three-turn roadway in the square.
At this point, they can see Park Jung-hee when they’re only 15 minutes away from the Blue House.
But it’s already there. The Seoul police station opened fire on them with a motive and, under heavy fire, the bus of 684 members was stopped.
The bus crashed into two trees that separated the road and the sidewalk, and the bottom of the car was caught by a fence, which immediately stopped and immediately surrounded by force.
At that time, 19 men on the bus, covered in blood and sweat, knew that they would not be able to walk in front of Park Jung-hee and that they would not be able to seek justice for themselves and their dead brothers.
The original passengers were also taken hostage by 78 others.
But the team released most of the hostages, leaving only three civilians behind.
Among them was a 21-year-old child, Park Ki-soo, who delivered a letter written in advance to a mother and son who had been released, asking them to send it to their relatives. Here’s the letter.
“Thongqing North Road, Wachuan County, Wachuan City, Majiri.” My name is Park Ki-soo, and I left home at 19, and my family doesn’t know my information. Please send a letter to this address. I’m sorry.
Later, the letter will be published in the newspaper. Fortunately, Park Ki-soo’s family read the newspaper. They found a newspaper to find out what happened to Park Ki-soo.
But no one dared to tell them that everything about Minorushima would become one of the worst taboos of the Korean government.
That day on the bus. The smell of fumes, blood, sweat and so on is absolutely insane. The remaining hostages shrunk in the corner and watched with horror the men in Korean uniform.
The surviving hostage testified that the bullet had been fired from outside the vehicle. This means that the 684 forces did not kill innocent people indiscriminately and that, despite the carjacking, there was a difference between them and the terrorists.
They may have been trained as cold-blooded killing machines, but that was a national crime. Deep inside, there is still a radiance of humanity.
Another round of force. During the shootout, 4 684 members abandoned their cars and fled.
The remaining 684 members were deadlocked with the mobile forces and asked to negotiate with the Government.
However, there was no response.
No one can know what 684 members have said and done in this time. Maybe they’re laughing at their fate and really think that the country needs them.
It is this nation, which destroys all its humanity in a dehumanizing manner, telling them that it is an honour to accept all this and that it is true to the highest faith.
But at the end of the day, it was the source of the belief that had sustained them through years of nightmares, treating them as consumables that they had lost without wanting, and wiping them out without mercy.
No one even wants to come out and admit to them and take responsibility for them.
PARK Jung-hee will not be possible if the time passes in one minute. The whole car is full of despair, 15 of its members know that this is the end of their lives.
The only thing they can do is to write down their names in the car in blood, names that are about to be stigmatized, erased and banned.
Then, as they said before, “Let’s kill ourselves.”
At 2.40 p.m., 684 troops detonated a grenade in each of their hands. Following a violent explosion, 18 bodies were discovered by the mobile forces on board, with 15 members and 3 hostages dead.
The bus after the explosion.
At the moment when they pulled out the grenade fuse, perhaps the only question that I wanted the most was:
We love our country, but do we love our country?
7
Their sad ending did not get proper names.
Four of the crew members who left their cars in the middle of the fight were still alive, but they couldn’t speak to the outside world.
After their arrest, they were sentenced to death by a military court tried in secret, and the despicable army feared that they would give up their appeal in exchange for letting them go to the Vietnamese battlefield.
And I don’t know if it’s a trick in itself, or if it’s the idea that there’s even more danger in deporting them.
On 10 March 1972, they were shot and buried in secret, the exact location of which remains unknown.
So, 24 people escaped from Minorushima and all were killed.
The first reaction of the Korean government after the “Obono Island incident” was to push the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, saying that armed spies tried to infiltrate it. But soon they realized the risks themselves.
Because of this event, it is impossible for the DPRK to know if, by then, it would have found out in depth the purpose for which the 684 forces were formed, it is hard to say that at least the two sides that maintained the apparent harmony at that time would have been able to tear their faces apart and trigger yet another inter-Korean conflict.
Two or three hours later, the Korean government gave a new reason: “24 special prisoners under air force control were separated, shot and killed officials, fled and caused riots.” The Chief of Staff of the Air Force was also removed from power to answer to the public in the hope that this would be done. I’m sorry.
Not long ago, on 4 July 1972, the two Governments issued joint statements on peaceful North-South reunification in Pyongyang and Seoul. The situation on the Korean peninsula has eased. Politicians have achieved their goal.
The matter of Suboshima is just covered up.
Until 1999, the changed situation in Korea finally enabled former soldiers and the families of the victims to speak about the dark side of history.
It was only when the film ” Suboshima ” was released that Koreans realized that the Korean government had created such a terrible event.
In 2003, Korean President Lu Wuxiang acknowledged the existence of “Northern agents”, and for the first time the Korean government made public information about “Northern agents”.
According to the data, from 1951 to 1994, there were as many as 13,000 “Northern agents ” , nearly 7,800 of whom were dead or missing, who had infiltrated Korea for various tasks.
In the following year, the Korean Ministry of Defence enacted the Special Assignment Compensation Act, which includes as a target for compensation those who were part of the Korean Army’s intelligence forces during the period from 15 August 1948 to 31 December 2002 and who carried out special missions or were trained by ” Northern agents ” , with corresponding compensation for survivors and the families of the victims.
However, the victims of the 684 forces remain absent.
Their honour is still not restored. The country still owes them.
What would be the thought of such a country if they knew what it was? I remember one of the team members’ sister crying for years.
She finally learned the truth about her brother’s death after 38 years after the “Oujima incident”.
She cried to her brother’s bones and said, “Do not forgive this country. Never forgive this country. I’m sorry.
It’s probably the same thing that haunts you forever.
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I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
