Telegraph Pole 91: Inside the 1962 Radio Silence Case File

Forensic flashlight capture of Telegraph Pole 91 along a dark, isolated Korean railway line at night.

Certain cold cases defy standard criminal tracking. The 1962 Cho Du-hyung abduction is the definitive record of South Korea’s military junta being outmaneuvered by an anonymous actor using public mailboxes. The Cho Du-hyung abduction of 1962 belongs to this category. It is the record of an authoritarian state, at the height of its surveillance ambition, … Read more