The main subject of this paper is the East Berlin North Korean Spy Ring Incident that occurredin 1967. The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the incident and examine itscultural-political meaning on the basis of previous researches and a fact-finding report ofthe National Intelligence Service. By studying diplomatic documents of the KoreanGovernment, statements of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, and articles of thepress as well as records of people who were involved in the incident, this paper identifiesseveral issues which should be discussed more intricately. In the second chapter, I look into the cultural-political meanings of the East Berlin NorthKorean Spy Ring Incident within the framework of the Cold War. The incident shows therapid changes that took place in Korean society and the strained relations between Southand North Korea in the late 1960s. This incident is worthy of notice because it illustratesthe way the two different systems represented in South and North Korea accepted theCold War in different ways. A hot war atmosphere can be detected in the midst of the internationalCold War. The two different systems in the Korean Peninsula started to break“the balance of terror” formed by the United States and the Soviet Union in the late 1960swhen the Cold War was multipolarized. South and North Korea attempted to shift the regimein what could be considered a retrograde movement for what would the atmosphereof international detente in the early 1970s. It is important to remember that this incidentreveals the locality of the Cold War. In the third chapter, I examine the cultural-political meaning of the East Berlin NorthKorean Spy Ring Incident in the context of the reconstruction of the “anticommunistsystem.” According to Heinlich Hanover, who was a lawyer of Isang Yun, this incidentcompelled people to reflect critically on the free world’s governments, which were caughtup in anti-communism during the 1960s. This incident clearly shows a series of processesby which the Park Chung-Hee regime used anticommunist ideology to spread the effectsof power all over the country. In this chapter, I discuss how anticommunism had an effecton the formation of the concepts of “normality of order” and “specificity of Korea” in the1960s by dealing with the East Berlin North Korean Spy Ring Incident. I also analyzenotes from the Korean Central Intelligence Agency which were at the center of thisincident. This incident reveals the process by which the Korean Central IntelligenceAgency turned into an administrative technocrat under the Park Chung-Hee regime inthe 1960s. Finally, in the forth chapter, I examine the meanings and effects of the East Berlin NorthKorean Spy Ring Incident and the ensuing cases related to the disturbing of the publicpeace in the late 1960s. Although these incidents occurred independently, they did notexist separatedly. Being recalled, arranged, and mediated in a specific frame, they took onthe same meaning. The purpose of this chapter is to explore this mapping process and itsimportant role in the militarization of the whole nation and fortification of the wholecountry. Specifically, I study the echo of “the duet of construction and national defense” inKorean society in the late 1960s and how the country developed under this condition. I also examine how the combination of construction and defense metaphorically expressed thedivision of South and North Korea and became a medium for constructing a “solidarity ofterror.”