In 1987, when the eyes of the world were on the Seoul Olympic Games, another major accident occurred in South Korea: Korean Air Flight KAL858, which was missing and crashed over the Indian Ocean, and none of the 115 people on board survived. When the investigation team examined the wreckage of the aircraft, it was shocked to find the extent of the fragmentation of the aircraft wreckage and the fact that the remains of the passengers could hardly find the whole body, which was obviously not caused by an ordinary aircraft failure, but a deliberate explosion. Meanwhile, at Bahraini airport, a female passenger claiming to be a Chinese was arrested on the spot for a fake passport. During this period, she even attempted to commit suicide by swallowing medicine, which immediately attracted the attention of South Korea. So what does this woman have to do with this accident? Was she the perpetrator of this accident? Who is she? After being sentenced to death, why did South Korea release her? Next, let's talk about the Korean Air Flight 858 crash.
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At about 00:00 on November 29, 1987, a Korean Air KAL858 civil aviation aircraft took off slowly from Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. At this time, the aircraft was full of joy, because most of the passengers on the plane were Korean laborers sent to the Middle East. This time their destination is to go home, back to South Korea.
In the 1960s, in order to change the backward situation of the Korean economy, South Korean President Park Chung-hee sent a large number of workers to the Middle East to work, so that the South Korean economy achieved fast-track development, which can be called the "Miracle of the Han River".
At 10.31 a.m., the plane had taken off four and a half hours earlier, by which time it had entered Myanmar's airspace under air traffic control along a fixed route. Staff and air traffic controllers informed that the current altitude is about 11,000 meters and are expected to arrive in South Korea at 11:21 a.m.
However, just nine hours after takeoff and reaching the sky over the Indian Ocean, the plane suddenly exploded violently. The sudden change made the crew and passengers on the plane unable to react at all, and they were already killed. In the end, all 115 people were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.
But at this time, this news that is enough to sensationalize the world has not yet been known to anyone. Thai air traffic controllers were the first to detect the anomaly, because when the plane flew 220 kilometers south of Yangon, there was no trace of the flight on the radar, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.
Thailand immediately informed the Republic of Korea of this emergency. At first, under the discussion of the air traffic control departments of the three countries of Korea, Myanmar and Thailand, which passed through the route, it was believed that the aircraft may have been forced to land due to a malfunction. Therefore, after locking the scope of the disappeared area, the three countries immediately launched a search. No trace of the aircraft was ever found.
Until 10 December, Burmese search and rescue workers found the wreckage of the plane in the Andaman Sea, Myanmar's Irrawaddy province and Mon State province. The wreckage of these aircraft was identified as the missing Korean Air KAL858 civil aviation aircraft. But people still think it's a disaster caused by an aircraft failure.
The reason for the investigators' suspicion of this conjecture is that if it is really a mechanical failure that caused the aircraft to crash, the crew should have had sufficient time to contact the air traffic control personnel, issue distress signals, etc., but the fact is that the aircraft did not have any warning or signal during the entire process of disappearance.
And, as more and more plane wreckage is searched, investigators find the extent to which the airframe was damaged, as well as the extent to which the passengers' remains are mutilated, reminding people that this is not a disaster caused by a simple aircraft failure, but rather like someone deliberately bombed it.
At the same time, more definitive evidence of this terrible fact is that nine days ago, on December 1, the local police arrested two "Japanese fathers and daughters" inside the Bahraini airport. So, what does these two people have to do with Korean Air KAL858 civil aviation aircraft accident?
This also starts with the reason why the two were arrested. The woman's name is Masayuki Mineya, and the man calls himself Shinichi Minetani, and the two tell the police that they are father-daughter relationship, but the two do not look alike. They were arrested because they had fake Japanese passports. Because after checking with Japan, the passport with Shinichi Mineya did have this person, but at the time of the incident, this person did not leave the country. So the man who committed suicide in Bahrain is not the so-called "Shinichi Minegu".
In addition, the two also have two tickets for a direct flight from Rome to Bahrain on the 29th. But in fact, they did not take this flight, but took the recently missing KAL858 flight. KAL858 took off from Baghdad on the same day, passing through Abu Dhabi Airport in the United Arab Emirates and Langman Airport in Thailand, before arriving at Gimpo Airport in South Korea. When the plane arrived at Abu Dhabi airport, the "father and daughter" got off the plane with 13 other passengers.
This makes one wonder if the ticket they had on them, which was directly from Rome to Bahrain, was bought as a cover for their flight 858. What is even more suspicious is that when the police took the two to the interrogation room for separate interrogation, the man "Shinichi Minegu" suddenly made a request to smoke, and the police did not think much about it and agreed. When he took out the cigarette and put it in his mouth, he silently bit open the tail of the cigarette, followed by a swallowing action, and soon Fenggu Shinichi lay down on the ground, convulsing all over his body, and died on the spot.
This move surprised the police, and at the same time, Mayumi Minetani, who was in the interrogation room next to her, also tried to kill herself in this way, but was detected by the police in time, forcibly opened her mouth, cleaned up the residue, and rushed her to the hospital for rescue. After examination, it was found that the two suicides used highly toxic potassium cyanate capsules, which once inhaled, only needed a few seconds to die on the spot.
Although Mayumi Mineya unsuccessfully committed suicide, she was in a coma for many days and did not wake up until December 4. This extreme behavior of the "father and daughter" has completely attracted the attention of the Bahraini police. After a series of detailed investigations, it was found that the cigarettes held by the two men had also passed their shelf life, and it was obvious that they were used as props for cover.
And at the time of detention, the two were about to leave bahraini airports. In addition, after Waking up, Mayumi Mineya always refused to answer any questions in the face of police questions. And acting very extremely, she tried to commit suicide by hunger strike, tongue biting, etc. All kinds of strange phenomena on The strange phenomena of Masayuki Mineya and Shinichi Mineya can't help but associate them with flight KAL858, which just had an accident, are the two really the perpetrators of this accident?
At the same time, the strange behavior of Mayumi Mineya and Shinichi Mineya has also attracted the attention of South Korea. At South Korea's request, Bahrain agreed to a request to extradite the bodies of Mami Minetani and Shinichi Minetani to South Korea. On December 15, 1987, Seoul Gimpo Airport was under martial law, and thousands of soldiers guarded the airport, and the surrounding passengers could not help but look a little nervous and curious.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, a passenger plane slowly landed on the runway of Gimpo Airport, and Mayumi Mineya walked down the gangway with the support of two security guards. Her mouth was tightly sealed with tape to prevent her from committing suicide again.
The next day, the South Korean Security Planning Department began interrogating Mayumi Mineya, who at first insisted on not answering any questions, even pretending to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to understand Korean. But under further questioning from South Korea, she finally relented and confessed that she was Japanese because she spoke fluent Japanese, but she could not justify the forgery of passports, poison, and the cause of Shinichi Mineya's suicide.
Later, she changed her name to Chinese, and she really spoke fluent Chinese. She said that she was a native of Wuchang City, Heilongjiang, China, because of the changes in her family when she was a child, she became an orphan through Macau, moved to Tokyo, Japan, and was finally adopted by her "righteous father" Shinichi Mineiya, and has since become a Japanese citizen. However, those who know a little will find that wuchang was only called a county before 1993, and later changed to wuchang city. Apparently, she was lying. Similarly, her description of her residence in Japan, as well as her relatives and friends after investigation, did not correspond to the reality.
In order to find out her identity as soon as possible, South Korea changed its tight guard, relaxed its vigilance against Mayumi Mineya, and adopted a way of advancing and retreating, allowing her to come and go freely, shopping, watching TV and other activities. However, Feng gu Ma yumi was very vigilant and never exposed flaws.
But a hundred dense, people can not be in a state of defense forever. In a small talk with the staff, the staff asked her: What tv sets are commonly used in Japan? "Cuckoo." Masayuki Mineya said it without thinking.
Cuckoo is a unique North Korean TV brand, and it is obvious that when this sentence was uttered, Mineya Mayumi realized that she had exposed the identity of the North Korean agent, and she felt very upset, but it was too late. But why did North Korea plan to create the KAL858 accident?
This also begins with the 1988 Seoul Olympics, which South Korea is proud of. With the development of the economy, South Korea's international status has been greatly improved, in 1981 in the bid for the right to host the 24th Summer Olympic Games, South Korea defeated Nagoya in Japan, Melbourne in Australia and Athens in Greece, and successfully won the right to host the Olympic Games.
At the same time, Seoul, as the second Asian city to host the Olympic Games, has extraordinary significance, so South Korea has spent a lot of money on infrastructure construction. North Korea, which has the same roots, did not want to be weak after learning this news, put forward a request for the joint hosting of the 24th Summer Olympic Games between the North and the South, for which the International Olympic Committee agreed that the two sides could negotiate and negotiate.
Initially, North Korea asked both sides to take half of the events, but in subsequent negotiations, it successively reduced the number of events it undertook to 8 and 5.5. North Korea made such concessions because they were too shy to afford such a huge amount of money.
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korea's initial budget investment was as high as hundreds of millions of dollars, and the final construction of large-scale facilities far exceeded the budget, reaching as much as $3 billion, and this figure did not include the cost of private facilities.
This is really unbearable for North Korea, which is economically backward and lacks foreign aid. In the end, the two sides could not agree on the terms proposed by each other, and South Korea decided to host the Olympic Games alone.
In fact, tensions between North and South Korea have not disappeared, and assassinations and attacks, such as the famous Yangon incident and the grass-cutting plan, preceded the Seoul Olympics. This keeps a cloud over the Korean Peninsula.
The Seoul Olympics made North Korea feel even more humiliated, so North Korea planned the aircraft explosion accident. The one they sent to carry out this plan was the beautiful woman Kim Hyun-hee, that is, Fenggu Mae yumi to carry out this task.
There is no doubt that almost all that North Korea has given Kim Hyun-hee is a good side. Born in 1962 into a diplomatic family, Kim Hyun-hee was bright and studious from an early age and consistently excelled in her studies. Fluent in Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Not only that, But Kim Hyun-hee also definitely meets the standard of "beautiful agent". She has been very beautiful since she was a child, and she has participated in movies in elementary school, so her original dream was to become a star. But her dream did not come true, and the direction of her life was very different from this wish.
Because of the favorable family conditions, Kim Hyun-hee has not suffered any hardships since she was a child, compared with those low-level people who are struggling on the subsistence line, Kim Hyun-ji is simply a delicate woman of heaven. And the turning point in her life also came when she entered college. After attending college, she was selected by North Korea to become an agent and trained as an agent for seven years in a villa on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
During this period, they learn skills such as close combat, the use of firearms and ammunition, and means of suicide when identity is exposed. She learned Chinese and Japanese during this period, and in order to fake her Japanese identity, she was also arranged to live with a Japanese for three years, from the most basic Japanese to the details of life, requiring systematic training. It was also at this time that she officially changed her name to Maumi Mineya.
Later, she learned Chinese and Chinese culture, and also made up a set of information Chinese identity. It wasn't until October 1987 that Kim Hyun-hee received a mission when her superiors asked her to blow up a South Korean civil aviation plane to sabotage the Seoul Olympics. In order to successfully complete the mission, the superior also arranged an old agent Kim Seung-il to pretend to be a Japanese father and daughter with Kim Hyun-hee. In order to cooperate with her, Kim Katsuichi also changed his name to Shinichi Minegu.
At this time, Kim Hyun-hee just felt that she was extremely proud to be selected among many people. Because before this, as a secret agent, she had been indoctrinated with the idea of Koreans living in hardship, and she was convinced of this, believing that this time was to save the suffering Korean people. Completely unaware that behind this is the sacrifice of 115 innocent lives and hundreds of families in tatters.
On November 28, 1987, Kim Hyun-hee and Kim Seung-il were mixed into Korean Flight KAL858. Who would have thought that these ordinary Korean workers, who had been busy overseas for a year, with the joy of being reunited with their families, would suddenly become a farewell?
Kim Hyun-hee and Kim Seung-il successfully fooled through the security check while passing through the security check, and took the radio battery solid bomb and the liquid bomb hidden in the luggage to the plane. And before boarding the plane, set the time to explode after 9 hours, and then put two bombs in the luggage compartment.
Everything looked so smooth that as the plane passed through Abu Dhabi Airport in the United Arab Emirates, the two stepped off the plane with more than a dozen other passengers. By this point, they were halfway done, and they only had to wait for the time to explode.
Sure enough, when the nine-hour time came, when the plane reached the aircraft over the Indian Ocean, the plane exploded without warning, destroying and killing people, and none of the 104 passengers and 11 crew members on board survived. As soon as the news came out, it shocked the world.
Meanwhile, Kim Hyun-hee and Kim Seung-il, who learned of the news, understood that their mission was accomplished, so the two prepared to return to North Korea according to the predetermined route. However, they did not expect that when they were preparing to leave the Bahrain airport, they were found to have fake Japanese passports and detained.
As the Bahraini police investigation deepened, the old agent Kim Seung-il immediately made the decision to commit suicide. Kim Hyun-hee did the same, but she didn't succeed. After being extradited to South Korea, especially when she saw the bustling crowds and the scene of south Korea, she felt that this was completely different from the suffering of the Korean people she accepted, which caused her psychological defenses to gradually collapse and eventually reveal flaws.
On January 15, 1988, South Korea announced to the world the results of the Korean Air KAL858 incident: the plane was destroyed by a placed bomb, and relevant evidence was also presented. On the same day, Kim Hyun-hee also appeared in front of the reporter's camera, and she explained the whole process of the accident to the public, which lasted about 15 minutes. She concluded by bowing to the families of the victims.
Kim Hyun-hee may have thought that after the mission was completed, she would either flee back to North Korea to reunite with her family, or cut herself off and fulfill her ideals for the country, but she did not think about how she would face the crime of killing 115 people after being arrested. However, due to the imminent opening of the Seoul Olympic Games, South Korea decided to temporarily postpone the trial of Kim Hyun-hee. It wasn't until 1990 that a South Korean court sentenced her to death. But the story doesn't end there.
After the trial, Kim Hyun-hee chose to accept a moral trial and legal punishment. Miraculously, Koreans are not angry at her, but feel infinite regret and pity for her dignified and feminine appearance, and the repentance she shows, because Koreans think that she has been used and is also an innocent victim.
As a result, there have even been many groups in South Korea that support Kim Hyun-hee, hoping that the court will punish the weak woman leniently. And Kim Hyun-hee really wasn't executed. In April of the same year, south Korean President Roh Tae-woo pardoned Kim Hyun-hee despite strong opposition from the families of the victims. The reason he gave was that keeping Kim Hyun-hee would improve South Korea's humanitarian image and serve as the only witness to North Korea's failure to acknowledge the incident.
South Korea's purpose in doing so is nothing more than to tell the world that Kim Hyun-hee is actually an innocent beauty who has been persecuted by North Korea, thus weakening North Korea's image in the world. Their purpose was indeed achieved. In 1988, the United States blacklisted North Korea until north Korea destroyed the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear facility and was removed from the blacklist by the United States.
As the protagonist of this incident, Kim Hyun-hee began an ordinary life in South Korea, getting married, having children, and she also wrote her own experience into a book, which became a very popular book at that time. In the eyes of many, the executioners of the killings are alive and well, and the innocent families of the victims are left unattended.
But she once wrote in the book: I, an executioner who has killed many innocent lives, my past life is nothing more than a hoax. Her whole life will be spent in atonement, suffering. I'm afraid that living like an ordinary person will always be a dream of Kim Hyun-hee. In the eyes of the public, her happy ending is actually just a beautiful chess piece left in this political battle, and her role is to live.