{"id":257608,"date":"2026-04-18T00:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/04\/18\/what-happened-investigation-launched-after-army-officers-mysterious-death-in-yangyang\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:06:24","slug":"what-happened-investigation-launched-after-army-officers-mysterious-death-in-yangyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/military\/2026\/04\/18\/what-happened-investigation-launched-after-army-officers-mysterious-death-in-yangyang\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened? Investigation Launched After Army Officer&#8217;s Mysterious Death in Yangyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/04\/CP-2023-0299\/image-b4b884bc-aa21-473e-a6c3-d93905cd5307.jpeg\" alt=\"\uc5f0\ud569\ub274\uc2a4\"> A noncommissioned officer (NCO) in his 50s was found dead in the single-soldier dormitory at an Army unit in Yangyang, in South Korea\u2019s Gangwon Province. Officials said there were no signs of external intrusion at the scene. <\/p>\n<p> According to police, the NCO was discovered around 8:20 a.m. on the 17th in an almost unconscious state inside the dormitory. A military physician later pronounced him dead. <\/p>\n<p> Police and military investigators are probing the circumstances. 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