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  Korean Air Flight 858 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Korean Air Flight 858 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Gimpo Airport near Seoul, South Korea via Bangkok International Airport in Bangkok.
All 11 crew members and 104 passengers on Korean Air 858 were killed, making it the deadliest terrorist attack against South Korea.
People who believe the event was a conspiracy perpetrated by someone other than the North Korean government say that the event was engineered by the South Korean authorities for political aims, citing a lack of hard evidence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KAL_Flight_858   (303 words)

  
 _Korean Air Flight 801: Warsaw and the FTCA_
KAL stated that the Agreements were between carriers, and did not bestow new legal rights on the passengers until Korean government approvals were obtained and the new terms were incorporated into contracts of carriage and tariffs.
KAL brought a motion to dismiss the indemnity cross-claims and third party claims of U.S. and Serco, in cases where suit in U.S. courts would not be allowed against KAL under Article 28 of the Warsaw Convention.
KAL also promised to pay the balance of the $14,000,000 to the plaintiff to the extent that it was not obtained from the other defendants.
www.mcmc-law.com /korean801.html   (4569 words)

  
 List of terrorist incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".
A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents   (4193 words)

  
 ANSP Under Investigation for Possible Role in KAL Flight 858 Bombing
Kim and Lee suspect that the blow-up of the KAL flight was engineered by ANSP operatives to swing the voters in favor of Roh Tae-woo in the December 16, 1987 presidential election, dashing the presidential ambition of Kim Dae-jung.
The 1987 incident refers to the disappearance of the KAL flight which occurred midway in the presidential election with the voting day slated for December 16, 1987.
The North Korean operation of exploding the KAL plane to coincide with the 1987 presidential election, the South Korean Workers Party case before the 1992 presidential election, the appearance of armed North Korean troops in Panmunjom at the time of the April 11, 1996 general elections.
www.kimsoft.com /1997/kmc98d6.htm   (3001 words)

  
 Graham's Other writings
SEOUL, Dec 13, Reuter - The story of Korean Air Lines Flight 858 has all the ingredients of a spy movie -- mass murder, time bombs, suicide capsules, international intrigue and a mysterious young woman who holds the key to the mystery.
KAL's Flight 858 took off from Baghdad on a flight to Seoul.
In Belgrade, a source at the hotel the couple stayed in between November 23 and 28, the day before KAL 858 took off, said the woman once met three "oriental" men in the hotel, all wearing virtually identical suits resembling uniforms.
www.earnshaw.com /other_writings/content.cfm?ID=179   (698 words)

  
 Wikipedia: List of terrorist incidents
1985 EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
1986 TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
1987 KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/list_of_terrorist_incidents.html   (2067 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
At each trial, KAL moved to have the district court hold as a matter of law: (1) that the Death on the High Seas Act ("DOHSA"), 46 U.S.C.A. et seq.
The district court denied KAL's motions and held that the plaintiffs' non-dependent relatives were beneficiaries entitled to recover pecuniary, as well as non-pecuniary, damages.
On the other, many of the KAL airliner's passengers (including the five decedents in these cases) came from the United States, where the KAL flight began and where all of the tickets were purchased.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=6th&navby=case&no=960126p   (2596 words)

  
 Foreign relations of North Korea
There was a brief flurry of negotiations on co-hosting the 1988 Seoul Olympics, which ended in failure and was followed by the 1987 KAL flight 858 bombing.
The D.P.R.K. is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since 1987, when KAL 858[?] was bombed in flight.
Pyongyang continues to provide sanctuary to members of the Japanese Communist League[?]-Red Army Faction who participated in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea in 1970.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/North_Korea___Transnational_issues.html   (1810 words)

  
 Intelligence: he KAL's Flight-858 Incident: What is Meant by It
Two days later the Korean Security Planning Agency (KSPA) told the public that the plane had been downed in explosion by the acts of two North Korean terrorists, named Kim Hyonhee (a young lady in her twenties) and Kim Sungil (aged over 70).
Now the KAL plane missing incident is one of the most important human-rights problems that requires an urgent and thorough review at the government level.
It is to be noted that growing concerns are being paid from every corner of our society to see the justice uphold in dealing with this case.
www.ladlass.com /intel/archives/010497.html   (604 words)

  
 Korean Air - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The incident would replay itself when, in September 1983, Soviet fighter planes shot down Korean Air Flight 007, a 747, which was on a New York-Anchorage-Seoul flight, on the Anchorage to Seoul segment.
On 29 November 1987, Korean Air Flight 858, which was travelling on an Abu Dhabi-Bangkok-Seoul route was destroyed by a terrorist bomb while flying the Abu Dhabi-Bangkok leg.
On 11 September 2001, after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Korean Air Flight 85, a 747 on a Seoul-Anchorage-New York route, was intercepted by U.S. and Canadian fighter jets and forced to land at Whitehorse International Airport during Operation Yellow Ribbon on fears that the plane might have been hijacked.
www.voyager.in /Korean_Air   (736 words)

  
 Terror Attack History
Air India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 82 were children and 280 were Canadian citizens.
Korean Air Lines Flight 858 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Kimpo Airport near Seoul, South Korea via Don Muang Airport in Bangkok.
The nose, containing the flight crew and first-class section, landed in a farmers field near a tiny church in Tundergarth, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, when 12â“16 oz (340 â“ 450 g) of plastic explosive...
www.members.tripod.com /antenna_conspiracy0/terror_attack_history.htm   (12104 words)

  
 Guardian | Korean plane disappears off Burma with all 115 missing
Airline officials suspected the plane may have crashed into the sea or into the Burmese jungle, but did not rule out the possibility of hijacking.
'There is the possibility that a crash may have been caused by explosives,' a KAL statement said.
Flight KAL 858, from Baghdad to Seoul, was due to land at Bangkok for refuelling 45 minutes after the last call, but never arrived.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5075787-110875,00.html   (335 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
For example, in the ICAO and the UN, the Soviets publicly defended North Korea against claims that it was responsible for the destruction of KAL Flight 858, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.
For example, the Soviet media denounced the holding of hostages in Beirut and the April 1988 hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 422.
As for Eastern Europe, countries in this region are quick to affirm their opposition to terrorism; however, several have condoned terrorism by directly or indirectly supporting North Korea against charges of responsibility for the destruction of KAL Flight 858 in November 1987.
www.tkb.org /MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=365&year=1988   (719 words)

  
 Charges on Korean plane crash aired in Security Council - Korean Air Lines mid-air explosion in November 1987 - ...
The Republic of Korea presented to the Council a document (S/19488) detailing the findings of an investigation it conducted concerning the destructions of Korean Air Lines flight 858, which resulted in the deaths of all 115 passengers and crew members.
According to South Korea, two North Koreans--a 70 year-old man and a 26-year-old woman posing as father and daughter and carrying false Japanese passports--boarded a regular KAL flight from Baghdad to Seoul, placed explosives in an overhead luggage compartment, and disembarked at its first stop at Abu Dhabi.
Pak Gil Yon of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said the KAL incident was a "drama writen and enacted by the highest South Korean authorities themselves" and the outcome of the "insecure political situation within South Korea".
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_n2_v25/ai_6621244   (461 words)

  
 Declaration Foundation: Restoring America
Investigation revealed that the bombing was the work of a North Korean special-ops team, reporting to Kim Jong Il, who was at that time heir apparent to his father, Kim Il Sung.
In November 1987 a South Korean civil airliner, KAL flight 858, exploded over the Bay of Bengal, killing all 115 people aboard.
One of the North Korean agents responsible, a young woman named Kim Hyun Hee, survived the inevitable suicide attempt — North Korean agents are trained to kill themselves to avoid capture — and revealed that she was part of a special-ops unit run by Kim Jong Il.***
www.declaration.net /news.asp?docID=3384&y=2003   (648 words)

  
 North Korea Behind KAL Bombing | The Agonist
Another view is that the then authoritarian South Korean government, desperately in need of any measures for holding onto power and perhaps grateful for the tragic incident, made up the story to instill anti-communist sentiment among its people and to benefit from it ahead of a crucial presidential election.
The nation's vernacular papers of conservative tendencies have fuelled the debate, implying whether it would be appropriate at all to draw out the subject again.
Shin Dong-jin, a documentary producer and secretary general of the citizen's organization for finding the truth about KAL 858, expressed mixed feelings about the current situation in a telephone interview with The Korea Times.
scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/7/16/134856/133   (1233 words)

  
 North Korea: Exporting Terrorism •
Last November 29, Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 858 en route from Baghdad to Bangkok via Abu Dhabi vanished with 115 passengers aboard.
When the two attempted to board another flight in Bahrain, Japanese officials on the scene examined their passports and found them to be forgeries.
In the wake of the KAL bombing the State Department declared that Pyongyang's actions 'just don't live up to the standards of civilized behavior" and announced on January 20 that North Korea had been placed on the official U-.S. list of nations which engage in international terrorism.
www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/asb74.cfm   (2948 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1996: Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism
As events during 1996 clearly demonstrated, however, Saddam Hussein's regime continues to murder dissidents throughout Iraq and target foreign and local relief personnel in the northern part of the country.
UN Security Council Resolution 748 was adopted in April 1992 as a result of Libya's refusal to comply with the demands of UNSCR 731.
North Korea is best known for its involvement in the 1987 midair bombing of KAL Flight 858 and the 1983 Rangoon bombing aimed at South Korean Government officials.
www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Terror/96/overview.html   (2654 words)

  
 The Wide Awakes » Islamofascist Suicide Bomber in OK City Identity Revealed
June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by Sikh nationalists.
April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
thewideawakes.org /archives/2005/10/03/islamofascist-suicide-bomber-in-ok-city-identity-revealed   (10345 words)

  
 Alex Duffy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She's the North Korean secret agent who blew up KAL Flight 858 in 1987, killing all 115 passengers.
After two missions, Kim Hyun Hee gets her final mission: Blow up KAL Flight 858.
She and another agent put the bomb on Flight 858, and get off at the first stop.
www.alexduffy.com /archives/2005_08.htm   (882 words)

  
 S2Online - November Terrorism Dates
The United Kingdom issued indictments against two Libyans for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1989.
Korean Air Lines Flight 858 was blown up over the Andaman Sea near Burma by two North Korean agents, killing all 115 persons aboard.
Alfred Herrhausen, the head of Deutche Bank AG and the most influential businessman in Germany, was assassinated by terrorists of the Red Army Faction (RAF) on November 30, 1989 in a Frankfurt suburb as Herrhausen was being driven to work.
www.s2online.org /terror/november.asp   (1447 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
South Korean concern about international terrorism heightened considerably in anticipation of the September 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, especially after the November 1987 destruction of KAL Flight 858 by North Korean agents.
That act of state-sponsored terrorism stimulated a debate on North Korean terrorism in the UN Security Council in February, and South Korea successfully moved a condemnatory resolution in the ICAO.
At yearend, government authorities initiated prosecution of Kim Hyon Hui, the confessed North Korean agent responsible for the KAL Flight 858 destruction.
www.tkb.org /MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=KS&year=1988   (420 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At a trial which began on July 5, 1988, Hamadei was charged with the hijacking on June 14, 1985 of TWA Flight 847, which was en route from Athens to Rome, and with the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem.
Under the sanctions, all countries must bar flights to or from Libya, prohibit any arms deals, and significantly reduce the staff of Libyan embassies and consulates.
09/01/1983 Korea (Republic of) KAL Flight 007 Shot Down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, on a flight from New York to Seoul, was shot down by Soviet fighters after straying into Soviet airspace.
rocchio.syr.edu /data/ORION/force_protection.Var-list.SIGNIFICANT_dates.html   (20084 words)

  
 What's New at KIMSOFT? December 2001
The Truth about the KAL 858 Bombing and the North Korean "Terrorist" Kim Hyon Hee
The KAL 858 Victims Relatives Demand the Truth
Wolgan Chosun should be prosecuted for false reporting - The case of the 'knife-ears'.
www.kimsoft.com /what0112.htm   (1114 words)

  
 Defectors_3
The seven North Korean defectors, including the three family members who were caught by the border guards of Mongolia during their flight from homeland were repatriated to China according to the Friday 11th's report.
Kim also gave an account of Kal Li-yong, "the basketball player who was killed for boiling and eating the whip of a guard," and seeing inmates "picking through cow dung to find bits of corn to eat and also to eat the fleas feeding there"...
Chosun Ilbo reported that Doctor Norbert Vollertsen of "Cap Anamur," a German association that is providing medical aid to the DPRK, told the National Assembly Human Rights Forum Discussion Tuesday that the gap between the elite and the common people in the DPRK is huge.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/defectors_new_3.htm   (9260 words)

  
 hackwriters.com - J T Brown - North Korea v Japan - Part 2 Investigating North Korean espionage and involvement with AUM
But, if we're going to try and "live with North Korea" while preventing it from "selling...material to the highest bidder", then there are some disturbing circumstances at which it is high time we all had a look.
The city, the entire country, was riveted by the unfolding details of the story.
Two North Korean agents posing as a Japanese couple, boarded the flight in Baghdad, planted their bomb in the overhead luggage compartment, then deplaned in Abu Dhabi.
www.hackwriters.com /NorthKorea.htm   (3233 words)

  
 Fielding's DangerFinder - Terrorism
Despite the continual pleading by Qaddafi to be allowed back into the political and financial playpen of the world market, he continues to harbor those responsible in placing the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
They are held responsible for the bombing of KAL flight 858 and are home to the aging Yodo-go chapter of the Japanese Red Army.
Following the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 enroute to Athens, the Greek government estimated that the subsequent tourism damage topped out at more than US$100 million.
www.comebackalive.com /df/terrorsm.htm   (4596 words)

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