12 December 1979 coup (1987): June Struggle
[335] [desk-korea-1979-4] Choi Kyu-hah was a transitional civilian face without a secure gun. Hanahoe officers moved the 9th Division an On a timeline, write the date and place of 12 December 1979 coup before any adjective of victory. Year 1987, line “June Struggle,” figure 06. Do not read the dead as points. Use VS / compare tools for neighbours.
Choi Kyu-hah was a transitional civilian face without a secure gun. Hanahoe officers moved the 9th Division and other trusted units. Jeong was seized. Some loyalist resistance occurred at Army HQ. US Forces Korea was informed after the fact -- a still-argued alliance wrinkle, not a US-run coup.
This paragraph dates a past insubordination. It does not teach one. The "new military" widened control in May 1980, closed politics, and sent troops to Gwangju. The civic dead of 18-27 May are the moral centre of the 1979-80 file for most Koreans. Chun became president; Roh Tae-woo, another Hanahoe general, followed -- a decade of the 12.12 cohort.
The June Democratic Struggle forced a direct presidential election. Later trials (1995-96) convicted Chun and Roh for 12.12 and Gwangju -- a legal afterlife rare among this atlas's coups. Films (12.12: The Day, A Taxi Driver) recast the English-available memory in the 2010s-20s. A successful factional seizure in a front-line ally -- the Korean file this atlas owes its Korean audience.
The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “June Struggle” is the movement, the figure is 06 and the year is 1987.1987
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1987
- Figure in the record
- 06
- Action
- 12 December 1979 coup
- Line of the front
- June Struggle