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Episode 52: Rangoon Aung San Mausoleum Bombing (아웅산 묘소 폭탄 테러)
On the morning of the ninth of October, 1983, a bugle sounded in a cemetery in Rangoon. It was a rehearsal. Just a rehearsal. The South Korean president was stuck in traffic, running about half an hour late, and the men waiting for him under the roof of the Martyrs' Mausoleum decided to run the national anthem one more time while they waited. Somewhere within earshot, a North Korean army officer heard that music and pressed a button. In the seconds that followed, seventeen South Koreans were killed. Four cabinet-level officials. The president's chief of staff. The ambassador. The man who had…
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