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. He was ...

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

Kim Shin-jo, a former North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then-South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, died April 9 ...

Shin-jo was ordained as a pastor in 1997. Shin-jo said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong-un.

Kim Shin-jo, a North Korean soldier who tried to assassinate ... In 1948, North Korea became its own country. Kim Il-sung, (no relation), who became chair of the Communist party that same year ...

“I earlier didn’t know why Kim Il Sung wanted to kill President Park,” Kim Shin-jo said in a 2009 interview with South Korea's mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. “But I came to know ...