A secret fraternity of officers, many from the 11th class of the Korea Military Academy, including Chun and Roh Tae-woo. It operated inside the formal army. The 26 October 1979 assassination of President Park by Kim Jae-gyu, his intelligence chief -- the vacuum 12.12 filled.
17 May 1980 expanded the new military's control; Gwangju resisted and was crushed. 12.12 is the December preface to May. Yes, in the mid-1990s, for mutiny and for Gwangju. Sentences were later remitted -- a legal and political afterlife.
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A secret fraternity of officers, many from the 11th class of the Korea Military Academy, including Chun and Roh Tae-woo. It operated inside the formal army. The 26 October 1979 assassination of President Park by Kim Jae-gyu, his intelligence chief -- the vacuum 12.12 filled.
17 May 1980 expanded the new military's control; Gwangju resisted and was crushed. 12.12 is the December preface to May. Yes, in the mid-1990s, for mutiny and for Gwangju. Sentences were later remitted -- a legal and political afterlife.
No serious history treats 12.12 as a US operation. Debate continues on warning, Combined Forces release of units, and Washington's May 1980 responses. Those are alliance questions, not a remote-control cartoon.
A Korean civic atlas already knows this; this English page exists to catch up without becoming a playbook. 26 Oct-11 Dec 1979 in Seoul: Army HQ, Hanahoe networks, after Park Chung-hee's assassination: Assassination; investigation politics. A memory map, not a present overlay.
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