Kim Shin-Ja, the only survivor member of the commando 124, who was supposed to murder the South Korean President, died at the age of 83.
At the age of 83, Kim Shin-Ja, a former member of the North Korean special unit, died on Wednesday, which was to murder the then President of South Korea in 1968. Later he became a pastor. TASR informs about this, referring to Jonhap, citing the announcement of the Korean Protestant denomination Sunggrak.
Kim Shin-Ja was trained in North Korea in the 1960s and was one of the 31 members of the so-called. Komanda 124, sent in January 1968 to a mission in order to assassinate the then South Korean President Pak Jong-Hi.
However, the mission failed and 29 out of 31 members of the unit were killed by South Korean security forces or committed suicide. One members of the commando managed to go back to North Korea and Kim Shin-Joa was the only one to be captured by the living.
The South Korean authorities questioned him for a year, then released it and in 1970 he received South Korean citizenship. When the North Korean authorities found that he became a citizen of South Korea, his parents executed and relatives became victims of the purges.
Kim Shin-Ja converted to Christianity and since 1997 he worked as a pastor.
