1997 Daekanese coup d'etat

1997 Daekanese coup d'etat
Type 76 tanks of the 10th Mechanised Division in downtown Tayeong
Date 9-10 July 1997 Location Daekan Result Overthrow and execution of Kwon Jung-Hoon Restoration Committee assumes power Re-introduction of Maengist policies Re-opening of relations with the west
Belligerents
Restoration Committee Pro-Maengist Party faction Ministry of State Security 6th Armoured Divsion 10th Mechanised Division Supported by:	Kwon Government Pro-Kwon Party faction Tayeong Guards Division (initially) Supported by:
Commanders and leaders
Man Yong-Ho Yom Dong-Wook Wu Seung-Min Chang Kwang-Seon Tu Jun-Seo	Kwon Jung-Hoon Pin Seong-Jin Yi Jung-Eun Ong Hyeon-U
Strength
30,000 DPA and MSS troops	12,000 Tayeong Guards
Casualties and losses
2 killed, 6 wounded	8 killed, 15 wounded
5 civillians killed, dozens wounded

The 1997 Daekanese coup d'etat, also known as the July Coup, the Cadre Coup or the Restoration Revolution, was the successful seizure of power in Daekan by the Restoration Committee and its allied forces, against Premier Kwon Jung-Hoon. The coup lasted two days with minimal fighting, which nevertheless resulted in both military and civillian casualties.

The coup was orchestrated by the Restoration Committee, a group of Party, Ministry of State Security and Daekanese People's Army officials that had been alienated by Premier Kwon's reversal of his predecessor's (Maeng Song-Hun) Hyeogsin reforms, as well as the catastrophic fallout brought about from Kwon's aggressive foreign policy, specifically the involvement in the Esgonian Civil War. The Restoration Committee was made up of reformists that had been dedicated to Premier Maeng's policies of political and economic liberalisation, as well as opening up Daekan to the west. As such, the Committee became popularly known as the Maengist Cadre.