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Rangoon bombing

1983 attempted killing of the South Korean president

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983 was an assassination attempt orchestrated by North Korea against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma. Although Chun survived, 21 people died in the attack and 46 were injured. One suspect was later killed, and the two other suspected bombers were captured, one of whom confessed to being a North Korean military officer.

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“Rangoon bombing” enters the record as 1983 attempted killing of the South Korean president. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rangoon, bombing and attempted can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rangoon bombing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.