The Blue House raid, also known in South Korea as the 21 January Incident (Korean: 1·21 사태), was a raid launched by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate President of South Korea Park Chung Hee in his residence at the Blue House in Seoul, on 21 January, 1968.

2023年1月24日 · Known as the Blue House Raid, this blow came close to fracturing the ROK-U.S. alliance and was a grave embarrassment for the United States. The Korean Armistice Agreement, signed July 27, 1953, ended three years of fighting that killed thousands of soldiers and civilians.

2020年12月8日 · Thirty-one shadows crept up to the fence in the cold winter night, cut it and slipped through, walking into the American side of the demilitarized zone that buffers North and South Korea. It was...

2013年9月20日 · South Korea’s presidential palace, known as the Blue House, was the scene of a desperate gun battle on Jan. 21, 1968. Aftermath. With the capital finally secure, South Korean and U.S. Army units rushed into the mountains north of the city to …

The Blue House Raid was an unsuccessful attempt by North Korean commandos to assassinate the President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, at his residence at the Blue House, on January 21, 1968. Thirty-one men were handpicked from the elite all-officer Unit 124 of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

2017年1月21日 · On January 17, 1968, Unit 124 infiltrated the 2½ mile demilitarized zone (DMZ), cutting the wire and entering South Korea. Their mission was to assassinate ROK President Park Chung-hee in his home, the South Korean Executive Mansion known as “Blue House”.

2018年1月26日 · They had been sent by Kim Il Sung, North Korea's founder and the grandfather of its current leader, Kim Jong Un. The commandos had spent the final months of their training practicing the assault on...

"The Blue House Raid was an unsuccessful attempt by North Korean commandos to assassinate the President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, at his residence at the Blue House, on January 21, 1968." [wikipedia] National Archives Identifier: 12054

the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident March 2012 E-DOSSIER #5 ... White House Politics in a New Light (University of Kansas Press, 2005). Jong-Dae Shin is a professor at the University of North Korean Studies, Seoul, and a former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Professor Shin’s current research focuses

The “January 21 Incident,” also known as the “Blue House Raid,” refers to when North Korean special forces attempted to assassinate President Park Chung-hee with the hope this would spark revolution in the South.