Incident Date:
February 24, 1982
Incident Successful: No
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Assassination
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Government(Head of State)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 4 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "02/24/1982: The RCMP issued warrants for South Korean-born Canadian citizen Choe Chung-hwa (James Choi), 31, and Nathan Israel Klegerman, 52, of Toronto, both of whom fled Canada after word leaked of their North Korean-backed plot to assassinate South Korean President Chon Tu-hwan. Choe allegedly paid three Canadian men $68,000 to kill Chon, likely during his expected visit to Ottawa. Choe, Charles Stephen Yanover, 36, and Alexander Michael Gerol, 33, of Toronto, were charged with conspiracy to kill Chon. Yanover and Gerol were also charged with conspiracy to defraud and, with Klegerman, of illegal possession of funds in connection with the crime. Canadian officials issued a warrant for the arrest of Choe, who was last seen in June 1982 by Austrian police. They indicated that North Koreans drove Choe into Czechoslovakia from Vienna in a car bearing diplomatic license plates. "
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler, and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume I 1980-1983. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 257-258."
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