The White House put the squeeze on the Blue House last week, and South Korea’s month-long ... Called “Silent Sam” by the Korean press for his reluctance to make public pronouncements ...

Kim Shin-jo, a North Korean soldier who tried to assassinate the South Korean president and who later became a pastor ... spread his cult of personality through the country’s education system ...

a prominent ex-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 on Wednesday.