The last of the three survivors of a group of North Korean commands that tried to murder the South Korean President in an audacious Raid during the Cold War died on Wednesday at the age of 82.
The old North Korean command Kim Shin-jothat after the failure of the bold attempt to murder the then South Korean president Park Chung-hee, In 1968, he deserted to South Korea, died on Wednesday.
Death was announced by Igreja Sungrakin Seoul, to which Kim Shin-Joe had joined after his reintegration, and in which he was ordained pastor in 1997.
The cause was not indicated From the death of the old command, 82, says.
Kim Shin-Joe was part of a 31 commands team North Koreans who tried invade the presidential palace of South Korea, located in the mountain of Bugaksan, to murder Parkthe authoritarian president who ruled South Korea since 1961.
North Koreans passed unnoticed by the border strongly fortified from Korea and approached the blue house -Name of the South Korean Presidential Palace-where Park was.
After Battles that lasted two weeks in the hills near the Blue House, all invaders, except three, were killed. Two survivors will have fled to North Korea, while Kim Shin-Joe was the only one to be captured alive.
At a press conference organized at the time by the South Korean authorities, Kim Shin-Joe surprised the nation by saying that his team had come “to Cut Park Chung-Hee a throat“.
Infiltration, which also killed about 30 South Korean militaryoccurred in a context of cold war tensions among rival Koreas, which were divided between the South, supported by the US, and the north, supported by the Soviet Unionat the end of World War II, in 1945.
Following the incident, the government of Park created a military unit in charge of North Koreaforced students to receive military training in schools and introduced residential registration card systems.
In interviews with the media, Kim Shin-Jo said it was Forgiven because it did not fire a single bullet during the shootings and was persuaded by South Korean employees to Renegate communism.
Later, the South Korean secret services authorities forced him to travel across the country to make critical speeches About North Korean systems in schools, companies and other places.
Kim Shin-Joe says he knew later that Your parentswho had stayed in North Korea, had been executed.
The old command leaves the woman, whom she met after settling in South Korea, and two children, said her church.
According to Kim Shin-Jo, the 1968 attack was made by order of the founder from North Korea EENTO LEADER KIM IL SUNGthe late grandfather of the current ruler Kim Jong Un.
Kim Il Sung died of a heart attack in 1994, Passing power to his son Kim Jong Il, father of Kim Jong Un.
“Before I didn’t know why Kim Il Sung wanted to kill the president Park, ”Kim Shin-Jo said in an interview of 2009 to the South Korean newspaper Joongang Ilbo.“ But I learned the reason when I spent some time here. Kim should be afraid that one poor country like South Korea became rich ”.
“As the economy improvedSouth Korea would get more money to Buy weapons. From the perspective of Kim Il Sung, he could not fail to kill President Park to get the Communization of South Korea“Kim concludes.
