"Mongolian Teen Threatens to Load Bomb on Aircraft at Incheon Airport"

Called airport helpdesk in English on the 22nd
Interpol cooperation confirms identity... local police punish parents

The culprit who made a threatening call to Incheon International Airport saying "I will load a bomb on the flight to Sydney" was revealed to be teenagers residing in Mongolia. Mongolian police announced that they plan to punish the parents instead of the minors involved.

Incheon International Airport Panorama

According to the Incheon Airport Police Unit on the 29th, at around 10:40 a.m. on the 22nd, a threatening call in English was made to the Incheon Airport help desk saying, "I will load a bomb on the flight to Sydney. I am a terrorist." After receiving the report from Incheon Airport, the police began tracking the call and found that the origin of the call was Mongolia.

Subsequently, the police immediately requested international cooperation from Interpol and shared information with the Mongolian Police Agency, eventually identifying the culprits who made the threatening call. The culprits were two Mongolian teenagers, A (12) and B (13), residing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. During police investigation, they stated, "We searched for Incheon Airport's phone number on Google Maps" and "We made the prank call out of curiosity." The Mongolian Police Agency decided to criminally punish the parents of A and B under the Disorderly Conduct Act, which corresponds to the Minor Offenses Act in South Korea, since A and B are minors.

Incheon Airport regularly receives terror threat calls, but most are known to be prank calls. According to data submitted by Incheon International Airport Corporation to the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, the number of terror threat cases received by the corporation from 2014 to 2019 were 3 in 2014, 4 in 2015, 0 in 2016, 3 in 2017, 2 in 2018, and 13 in 2019. Most terror threats were made by phone, but the majority were pranks, actions by mentally ill individuals, or impulsive remarks, and there have been no known cases where terror threats were actually carried out.

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