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As this volume was in preparation, an incident revealed in stark-
est terms the clash of two very different cultures, Soviet and
American, on the propriety of resort to violence. A political and
ethical gulf was never more clearly delineated than in the world
reaction to the deliberate Soviet shooting down of a Korean
airliner with 269 civilians aboard, including 61 Americans, at
0326 Korean time on September 1, 1983. The regularly sched-
uled passenger aircraft had strayed off course and passed
through Soviet airspace over Kamchatka Peninsula and then
over Sakhalin Island. The Korean pilot, apparently unaware of
any navigational error, reported to Tokyo at 0323 Korean time
that he was on the planned track northeast of Hokkaido, Japan.
After more than two hours of radar tracking of this aircraft and
a near approach to it by a Soviet interceptor aircraft from Sakha-
lin, Soviet authorities gave instructions to fire a missile at the
Korean plane as it was leaving Sakhalin and approaching the Sea
of Japan. According to intercepted voice transmissions, the
Soviet pilot reported at 0326 Korean time, "The target is de-
stroyed. I am breaking off attack. " The aircraft disappeared
from radar screens at 16,000 feet altitude three minutes later.
Everyone aboard was killed in the plane s plunge to the sea.
Despite the reaction of horror from the United States and
most of the rest of the world, the Soviet Union has refused to
recognize any error in this destruction of innocent human lives,
because the aircraft had crossed the "sacred borders" of Soviet
territory.
This concept of the political rights of the state overriding hu-
man life portends more and more politically inspired violence of
the kind Americans find hard to believe. Revolutionary violence
and guerrilla wars have spread to every continent in the past
decade, just as a close reading of Soviet doctrinal literature indi-
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Terrorism pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024