Mun's attack ricocheted off a wall and killed a high school student, Jang Bong-hwa. Immediately following the capture of Mun, Park resumed his scheduled speech, despite the wounding of his wife and her being carried from the stage. Following its completion, he picked up his wife's handbag and shoes and left. Despite extensive surgery, Yuk died at 7:00 p.m. that same day. During his interrogation, Mun confessed to have been aided in his bid to assassinate President Park by an official of a North Korea aligned residents association in Japan. This, and the fact that Mun used a Japanese passport to enter South Korea, strained diplomatic relationships between Japan, North Korea, and South Korea; South Korea concluded that Mun was acting on behalf of North Korea, but Japan refused to accept South Korea's position. Consequently, Park threatened to break off diplomatic relations and to nationalise Japanese assets in South Korea. It required mediation by United States embassy officials before Japan issued a letter of regret, easing tensions between the two countries. At the same time, North Korean officials made a statement that they were not involved in the assassination attempt on President Park, but they approved of it, calling Moon Se-gwang a "real communist." Execution At the trial, Mun Se-gwang also expressed regret that he had failed to kill President Park, and that an innocent schoolgirl had died because of his actions. On December 17, 1974, he was found guilty of the attempted assassination of President Park Chung-hee resulting in deaths of two people and sentenced to death. Four months after his failed attempt to assassinate President Park, Mun was executed by hanging in a Seoul prison. See also History of South Korea Zainichi Korean Korean-Japanese disputes Notes Bibliography 1951 births 1974 deaths Failed assassins Far-left politics in South Korea Far-left politics in Japan People convicted of murder by South Korea People executed by South Korea by hanging People executed for murder South Korean activists South Korean communists South Korean expatriates in Japan South Korean people convicted of murder Zainichi Korean people Executed South Korean people Executed assassins People executed for attempted murder 1974 murders in South Korea People from Osaka