The other was Mr. Kim , who surrendered and later reinvented himself into a fiery anti-Communist lecturer and Christian pastor in the capitalist South. “We came to slit President Park ...

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his failed mission to assassinate then-president Park Chung-hee in 1968, has died aged 82. Mr Kim died ...

Kim Shin Jo, a former North Korean commando known for his involvement in a failed assassination attempt on then-South Korean president Park Chung Hee in 1968, has died at the age of 82.

Mr. Kim was among a team of 31 North Korean commandos who tried to storm South Korea’s mountainside presidential palace to assassinate Park, an authoritarian president who had ruled South Korea ...

Mr Kim was among a team of 31 North Korean commandos who tried to storm South Korea’s mountainside presidential palace to assassinate Mr Park, an authoritarian leader who had been ruling South ...