Revolutionary sparks: Tracking N. Korea's covert operations from the 1980s to today - Daily NK English

Revolutionary sparks: Tracking N. Korea's covert operations from the 1980s to today - Daily NK English

In a previous column, I wrote that North Korea changed the name of the party’s United Front Department to Bureau 10. I explained this was due to its shift from open unification duties to covert operations against South Korea. Some readers commented that North Korean operations against the South were actually at their most extreme in the past, particularly during the 1980s. This is true. The pro-democracy movement erupted on South Korean universi…