At Hong Kong Island International Airport, an official convoy from the Police Force's National Security Department, International Affairs Department, slowly stopped in front of an apron.
The officer leading the team was Chan Chi-kit, a Senior Superintendent in the International Affairs Department.
As the representative of the Hong Kong Island Police Force, he had full responsibility for receiving the experts South Korea had sent to assist with handling the DC-8.
The chartered plane landed on time, and personnel from South Korea's intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Service, descended the boarding stairs.
At that moment, Chan Chi-kit also led his men out of their vehicles.
Among those getting out with him, besides members of the Police Force, was a woman wearing a reddish-brown leather jacket.
For this incident involving the DC-8, the Two Koreas had a total of three representatives assisting the Hong Kong Island Police Force's operation.
The South Korean personnel had been dispatched directly from South Korea.
The North Korean representative, meanwhile, had been assigned directly from its Consulate in Hong Kong.
The woman beside Chan Chi-kit was North Korea's working representative, Shin Mi-gyeong, deputy intelligence management officer at the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Consulate on Hong Kong Island.
As for the two South Korean personnel, one served in a capacity similar to Shin Mi-gyeong's.
Park U-cheol, an intelligence Senior Officer with South Korea's National Intelligence Service, was also a professional intelligence operative.
The other, Choi Min-ho, a Director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, also appeared to have a background in South Korean intelligence and security work, and his rank was even higher than that of Senior Officer Park U-cheol.
But his circumstances were very unusual. Not only was he the real specialist responsible for handling the DC-8 this time, he also had very close ties