A Look At South Korea’s Covert War Against North Korea

Adam Rawnsley, War Is Boring: South Korea’s Covert Operations in North Korea

After Pyongyang attacked Seoul in the late 1960s, the South counterattacked

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In the late 1960s, North Korea unleashed a guerrilla war on South Korea, sending spies and special operations troops across the Military Demarcation Line that separates the two countries in an attempt to cause havoc in the backyard of its rival.

The highlights of Pyongyang’s campaign have since become well known — the attempted assassination of Pres. Park Chung-hee in Seoul, the landing of 120 commandos along the South Korean coast and the infiltration of agents into the Republic of Korea.

Less well-known, however, is the fact that South Korea responded to the attacks with a covert war of its own. Almost from the very beginning of Kim Il-sung’s campaign, South Korean forces retaliated against the North with raids and intelligence missions that ventured across the MDL into North Korean territory.

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WNU editor: The 1960s was a very difficult time throughout Asia. The Chinese Cultural revolution, Vietnam, Soviet build-up, Pak - India tensions and the occasional war, it was not an easy to live anywhere in Asia .... let alone on the Korean Peninsula.