On 9 October 1983, an assassination attempt occurred against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). North Korea was believed to be behind the attack, in which 21 people died and 46 were wounded. One suspect was killed and two others were apprehended, one of whom admitted to being a North Korean military officer.
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