The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In November 1987 a South Korean airliner was blown out of the sky, killing 115 people on board. The attack on Korean Air flight 858 is believed to have been the work of agents of the North Korean regime, seeking to disrupt the Summer Olympics in Seoul. Pete Ross has been hearing from relatives of some of those who died that day, as well as from one of the bombers, the North Korean agent Kim Hyun-hui.
(Photo: Former North Korean spy Kim Hyun-hui , who now lives in South Korea. Credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:34.8 | I'm Pete Ross and today I'm taking you back to 1987 and an attack on a South Korean |
| 0:40.0 | airliner which left 115 people dead. It's believed the bomb attack was ordered by the North |
| 0:45.1 | Korean leadership in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming Olympic Games in Seoul. I've been speaking |
| 0:50.6 | to relatives of those who died. |
| 0:52.3 | Good evening. Korean Airlines officials. I've been speaking to relatives of those who died. |
| 0:52.8 | Good evening. Korean Airlines officials say they fear one of their airliners has crashed |
| 0:57.6 | somewhere over Southeast Asia with 115 people on board. |
| 1:01.8 | It was on the 29th of November 1987 just before South Korea was |
| 1:06.1 | due to host the Olympics that Korean Air flight 858 disappeared on its way from Baghdad to |
| 1:12.2 | Seoul and South Korea. |
| 1:14.0 | Emmok Sun was getting ready to meet her husband, Kim Doc Bong, at the airport in Seoul. |
| 1:19.0 | In 1840, in 18... In 1987 on November 29, |
| 1:25.0 | on November 29 Sunday morning, the company called to tell us that K-A-L-858 |
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