ABSTRACT
Every country’s history knows some crucial days which irrevocably change their very nature. The examples are numerous: December 18, 1865, when slavery was abolished in the United States; March 24, 1933, when the Enabling Act made Hitler the dictator of Germany; February 20, 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and so on. North Korea is no exception. Some of the watershed dates related to the country are relatively well known: August 10, 1945, when two American colonels – Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel – submitted their plan to divide Korea; June 25, 1950, and July 27, 1953, on which the Korean War broke out and ended in a ceasefi re, respectively; and August 30, 1956, when an opposition faction failed to overthrow Kim Il-sung. And there is one more date which remains generally unknown to the public: May 25, 1967.
