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Article: BEACHED SUBMARINE AND 11 DEAD BODIES SOUTH KOREA THINKS MYSTERY INVOLVES SPIES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 19, 1996
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A stranded submarine rocking in the surf. Eleven men in sneakers lying dead in the woods. Three more killed in a shootout with South Korean soldiers.
The latest bizarre mystery on the Cold War's last front.
South Korea went on alert, calling it the latest of many attempts by North Korea to slip spies into the country. They captured one man and were hunting for eight believed to have escaped from the damaged submarine, discovered Tuesday on a reef.
Soldiers found a line of 10 dead bodies lying side-by-side in a forest clearing near Kangnung, with the 11th slumped to the ground a few feet away. Authorities believe each was shot by a companion, and ...