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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.
		According to the South Korean authorities, the Boeing 707 (registered HL7406) took off from Abu Dhabi and was flying to Bangkok on the way to Seoul.
		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/Korean_Air_Flight_858 (303 words)

	korean air information
		On 29 November 1987, Korean Air Flight 858, which was travelling on an Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Don Muang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand-Kimpo Airport, Kimpo, South Korea route mysteriously disappeared with all 115 on board.
		Air is one of the four classical elements, and is associated with many other concepts, such as the sword suit in the tarot.
		Air is considered to be both hot and wet, and according to Plato is associated with the octahedron.
	www.global-terror.com /korea/korean-air.htm (557 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Former North Korean agent Kim Hyun-hee, who now lives in South Korea after being sentenced to death for blowing up the Korean Air jet in 1987 (she was subsequently granted amnesty), wrote in her autobiography The Tears of My Soul that she received intelligence education with another woman agent called Kim Suk-heui.
		Not a few experts believe North Koreans will not give up their nuclear deterrent because they believe once they give it up their regime will be weakened and they will be vulnerable without the big nuclear card.
		The North Korean spokesman said that his country suspected Japan's "analyses" of the ashes was based on a political plot meticulously contrived to achieve a certain objective - discrediting Pyongyang.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FL16Dh02.html (2082 words)

	Dopefish - Uncyclopedia
		East Korean sources claim that Dopefish was born on February 16, 1941, and that subsequently his "official" birth year was adjusted so as to be in harmony in terms of decades with that of his father, Anonymous.
		Initially, it was reported that the explosion was caused by an electrical fault; however, the East Korean media reports that there is evidence to suggest the incident may have been an assassination attempt.
		It is unclear whether the possible curtailing of Dopefish's personality cult indicates a struggle within the West Korean leadership or whether it is a deliberate attempt by Dopefish to moderate his image in the outside world.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Dopefish (2407 words)

	Liquid explosives threaten air travel \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Air travelers leaving the United Kingdom on Thursday faced the strictest security measures in years: iPods, cellular phones, laptops, and even books and magazines were no longer permitted as carry-on items.
		Air travelers flying inside the U.S. are still permitted to bring laptops and electronic devices as carry-on items, though both U.K. and U.S. passengers were generally prohibited from bringing liquids or gels into the passenger cabin.
		Saboteurs are believed to have used liquid explosives smuggled on board in a bottle of alcohol to attack Korean Air flight 858 in 1987.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-1009_22-6104475.html (952 words)

	ROK and Inter-Korean relations January 2006
		The North Koreans were arrested in the South as pro-communist partisans and spies after the end of the 1950-53 Korean war and served sentences of 31 years on average, and 43 years at the longest.
		A South Korean civic group representing family members of people abducted by North Korea has asked the Japanese and South Korean government to investigate the identity of the husband of a female Japanese abductee, who the North claim is North Korean but they suspect was kidnapped from the South in the 70s.
		Koreans' spending on overseas education hit a record high last year as parents sought higher-quality education for their children while escaping from increasing private education costs at home.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprk/SK_0601.htm (8166 words)

	Airline Security Insider - The Airline Security Authority
		Air Transport Association president and CEO James May noted that the U.S. treats all airlines the same during fuel shortages.
		With no clear signs of softening air travel demand on the horizon, the outlook for industry revenue is strong for the next several quarters, and average fares are likely to trend higher again next year.
		According to the LA Times, the machine blows air on a traveler and quickly sucks it back in, analyzing the sample for traces of explosives.
	www.airlinesecurityinsider.com (15419 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Mystery of Flight 858 -- Dec. 14, 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Despite their apparent calm, they were the center of an international storm.
		Two days earlier they had disembarked in Abu Dhabi from Korean Air Lines Flight 858, en route from Baghdad to Seoul.
		Officials in Seoul openly speculated that the Boeing 707, carrying 95 passengers and a crew of 20, might have been destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,966262,00.html (152 words)

	Timeline Air Crashes
		Flight 007 was fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace.
		In 1997 the FBI issued a report that the disaster was caused by an explosion in the central fuel tank and was not the result of sabotage.
		Flight 6136 was an MD-82 enroute from Beijing to Dalian.
	timelines.ws /subjects/Aircrashes.HTML (9652 words)

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		An Egypt Air airliner from Athens to Malta hijacked by the Abu Nidal Islamic Group.
		Flight ET961, Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, was hijacked by Ethiopian nationals seeking asylum in Australia.
		The last minutes of the flight were reconstructed from cockpit audio and data recorders.
	www.classicalideals.com /chronology.htm (6666 words)

	onefreekorea: 06/01/2001 - 06/30/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The South Koreans understand that a strong U.S. military presence in their region is necessary as a credible deterrent.
		Whereas many victims of North Korean abduction have been seized during terrorist attacks, as in the hijacking of South Korean planes in 1958 and 1969, and, decades later, Pyongyang continues to hold twelve passengers of a hijacked Korean Air flight, including passenger Mr.
		Whereas North Korean agents kidnapped thirteen-year-old Megumi Yokota, as she was walking home from school, and subsequently reported that she married and had a daughter in North Korea before committing suicide in 1993, and that Megumi's daughter remains there separated from her family in Japan;
	freekorea.blogspot.com /2001_06_01_freekorea_archive.html (8878 words)

	A Chronology of Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-1996
		TWA Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut.
		Air France Hijacking, December 24, 1994: Members of the Armed Islamic Group seized an Air France Flight to Algeria.
		No one claimed responsibility, but South Korean authorities believed that the attack was carried out by professionals and that the assailants were North Koreans.
	www.globalspecialoperations.com /terchron.html (3075 words)

	Mistral Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The purpose of this course is to prepare and train the participants for the role of an operational sky marshal.
		This course is comprised of 14 modules that can be presented at different levels (new recruit, experienced officer and security managers) according to the professional background and function of the participants.
		The position was responsible for securing all modes of transportation, including rebuilding the public’s post-September 11 confidence in the Nation’s air travel, with a balance of excellence in security, regulation and customer service.
	www.mistralgroup.com /SEC_terrorism.asp (790 words)

	CNS - U.S. Must Rethink North Korea Strategy
		In November 1987, 10 months before the 24th Olympic Games were to be held in South Korea, two North Korean agents planted a powerful bomb on Korean Air Lines flight 858, killing all 115 people on board.
		While Washington continues to insist that the North Korean nuclear crisis is a multilateral issue that requires a multilateral approach, other regional powers such as China have been reluctant to support the U.S. approach, seeing the only solution as direct North Korean-U.S. talks.
		The second option is to prepare military action in response to mounting North Korean threats, in particular with regard to such red-line developments as the acquisition of nuclear weapons or transfers of nuclear-weapons materials to other countries or even terrorist groups.
	cns.miis.edu /research/korea/rethink.htm (999 words)

	AEI - Books
		Were it not for the regime's careful and clever management of the process of negotiation, few people outside the Korean peninsula would have reason to concern themselves with North Korea.
		At the close of the Korean War, it was condemned by the international community, devastated as a consequence of its own aggression, and supported solely by its ideological sponsors.
		The danger for the West is that war may be inevitable and that it is likely to come only at a time chosen by the North Koreans, when they have perfected their weaponry and can be confident of surviving the conflict.
	www.aei.org /books/bookID.353,filter.foreign/book_detail2.asp (2046 words)

	The Matt Murphy Radio Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		April 2, 1986 Palestinian terrorists calling themselves the Arab Revolutionary Cells detonates a bomb on TWA flight 840 as it approaches the Athens airport, opening up a hole in the cabin and sucking out four United States citizens, including one infant.
		September 5, 1986 Pan Am flight 73 is hijacked by four Abu Nidal terrorists, 22 die in Karachi, Pakistan when the hijackers open fire on the passengers.
		September 14, 1986 North Korean agents plant a bomb in the Kimpo airport in Seoul, South Korea killing 5 and injuring 29.
	www.murphyshow.com /terror_1980_2.php (412 words)

	Asia News : Seoul reaffirms N Korea behind 1987 jet bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Following pressure to reopen the case, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) conducted a two-year probe of the bombing of Korean Air flight 858 that crashed into the sea off Myanmar on November 29, 1987, killing all on board.
		Kim Hyun-Hui, a female North Korean agent accused of having planted bombs on KAL 858, was brought back to South Korea to stand trial.
		The government also organized a series of anti-North Korean street rallies denouncing the bombing nationwide in a bid to win support from voters for the military-backed candidate in the elections.
	www.keralanext.com /news/?id=800826 (506 words)

	North Korea Freedom House -- Books and Reports on North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On November 29, 1987, two North Koreans were arrested in Bahrain, suspected of the terrorist bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 in which 115 people died.
		Andrei Lankov traces the formation of the North Korean state and the early years of Kim Il Sung's rule, when the future "Great Leader" and his entourage were consolidating their power base.
		Arguing that the Korean War was civil and revolutionary in character, Cumings shows how the basic issues over which the war was fought were apparent immediately after Korea’s liberation from colonial rule in 1945.
	www.nkfreedomhouse.org /resources/booksvideos (3655 words)

	TIME.com: The Mystery of Flight 858 -- Dec. 14, 1987 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A South Korean request for Tokyo to check travel documents had revealed that the woman held a fake passport.
		Asked if he wanted to proceed to Rome, her companion said, "It is useless to travel alone." As a guard watched over them in the Bahrain airport, the woman took out a pack of Marlboros.
		He claims that a friend of Korean extraction had helped him apply for his passport four years ago and had kept it for a while, long enough to forge a copy.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,966262,00.html (470 words)

	AII POW-MIA KW Accounting 2000
		The Air Force project name for their effort was “Project American,” from which Manual, FM 200-25 was produced in 1961, describing the circumstances of loss of each of its men on the list.
		In that meeting the North Koreans reiterated their position that the remains recovery effort should be bilateral, not multilateral as was suggested by the United States.
		The Honolulu venue was key to demonstrating to the North Koreans the exacting procedures used by CILHI to conduct recovery and identification of remains.
	www.aiipowmia.com /koreacw/kwrept1.html (11717 words)

	Baltimore Independent Media Center: S. KOREA. 11.08/Last Week's Struggle Report...
		On Yeouido, in the sight of the National Assembly, the S. Korean parliament, nowadays several groups are in sit-in strike.
		For example here in S. Korea for disabled persons it is very hard to move in the public – they can’t use the busses and the most of the subway stations are not proper equipped for disabled people.
		After a short time, because the route was not long, the demonstration ended in front of KCTU’s headquarter in Yeongdeungpo, where the final rally finished the event.
	baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/8696/index.php (638 words)

	The Evidence: Chronology of Attacks on the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On 11/30, an ambush near Tikrit killed 2 South Korean electrical workers and wounded 2.
		A Colombian employee of Kellogg Brown and Root was killed and 2 were wounded in an ambush near Balad.
		Israelis kill 4 Hamas militants in air raids.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1294916/posts (8963 words)

	Sepia Mutiny: Science Archives
		In 1987, KAL Flight 858 was destroyed using the explosives C-4 and PLX, the latter of which is a liquid:
		On December 11, 1994, Flight 434 was on its second leg from Cebu to Tokyo when a bomb exploded, killing one passenger.
		India will soon develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a flight range of 9,000-12,000 km… The ICBM would probably be a three-stage ballistic missile with solid fuel rockets in the first and second stages, and a liquid propellant rocket in the third stage.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/cat_science.html (14603 words)

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