Kim Shin-jo

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Shin-Jo is one of two survivors, and the only one captured by South Korean forces, of a 31-person team of North Korean commandos sent to assassinate the then president of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, in the 'Blue House Raid' in January 1968.[1] After the failed attempt, he was interrogated for a year by the South Korean authorities before being released. After he became a citizen of South Korea in 1970, his parents were executed and his relatives purged by the North Korean authorities.[2][3] Kim later became a pastor at Sungrak Sambong church in Gyeonggi-do. He has a wife with two children.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Flora Lewis (February 18, 1968). "Seoul Feels a Cold Wind From the North". New York Times.
  2. ↑ Sunny Lee (February 27, 2008). "What would Jesus do to North Korea?". Asia Times.
  3. ↑ John M. Glionna (July 18, 2010). "The face of South Korea's boogeyman". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ↑ McDonald, Mark (December 17, 2010). "Failed North Korean Assassin Assimilates in the South". The New York Times. Retrieved April 8, 2014.


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