It is said that after the 1969 Cheong Wa Dae incident, then President park chung-hee and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency created a special force composed of prisoners. The government requires that these people be trained as professional agents in the shortest possible time. Their task is to enter Pyongyang and take off Kim Il Sung's head. Later, due to various historical reasons, this unit became a hot potato, just when the government decided to secretly execute them. These people made trouble and finally committed suicide in Seoul on August 23rd, 197 1. Afterwards, the South Korean government called it a terrorist incident organized by the Korean guerrillas.
Three days after the incident, South Korean Defense Minister Yu Air Force Chief of Staff was dismissed. Does this unit exist? Are they "death squads" formed by the South Korean government or guerrillas in North Korea? After the incident, many news media organizations tried to uncover the truth of the "Shiwei Island" incident, but they failed, and this history was deeply buried. Later, the hostages who were hijacked at that time also said that the terrorists didn't seem to want to hurt them, and the South Korean government forces shot first. Why do they go by bus collectively? If they are terrorists, it may be more appropriate to disperse their activities. Who are they? Many news organizations tried to uncover the truth of the "Shiwei Island Incident" on August 23rd, 197 1, and doubted whether the rumor that a South Korean special force was sent to North Korea after training was true. But none of them succeeded. After the incident, many government officials and senior military personnel, including the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, were dismissed. Four students who escaped were also executed immediately. It seems that the Shiwei Island incident, like other similar times, will be erased from Korean history forever. However, 32 years after the truth was buried, during the reign of Kim Dae-jung, the existence of various government and military intelligence agencies, covert operations and records of related human rights violations began to be known, and people's interest in the Shiwei Island incident rose again.