After his brave assassination of therefore South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968, Kim Shin-jo, a popular ex-North Korean army who reestablished himself as a priest there, died on Wednesday. He was 82. Kim’s Sungrak Church in Seoul announced that he had passed away of old time after two weeks of care at a nursing home. His formal funeral is scheduled for Saturday. Kim was reportedly survived by his family, whom he met after relocating to South Korea, as well as a boy and a girl.
Kim was one of 31 North Korean soldiers who stormed South Korea’s mountain presidential palace in an effort to assassinate Park, an authoritarian leader who had been in power with an iron fist since 1961.
The North Koreans had crossed the heavily fortified borders without being noticed and were close to Park’s house. All but three of the attackers were killed after fighting that lasted for two days in the local hills. Kim was the only person who had been captured alive by South Korean troops, despite the fact that two of the victims were reportedly going back to North Korea.
Kim stunned the country by claiming that his group came” to cut the neck of Park Chung-hee” at a press conference organized by South Korean government.
At the height of World War II, when rival Koreas were divided into the US-backed South and the Soviet-backed North, were the foe Koreas at the end of the Cold War. Around 30 South Koreans were also killed by the strike. After that, Park’s government established military forces, established a military unit with the task of attacking North Korea, mandated defense training for students in schools, and set up home registration card systems.
Kim claimed in media interviews that he was forgiven because he didn’t use a single shot in the brawls and that South Korean officials convinced him against communism. He claimed that South Korean intelligence agents eventually directed him to travel across the nation to deliver speeches criticizing North Korean institutions in workplaces, schools, and other locations.
Kim claimed that Kim later learned that his North Korean relatives had been put to death. Kim was made a priest in 1997.
Kim claimed that Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea at the time, was the leader and father of existing ruler Kim Jong Un, who gave the order for the 1968 assault. Kim Jong Il, the parents of Kim Jong Un, passed away in a heart attack in 1994, giving energy to his brother Kim Il Sung.
Kim Shin-jo stated in a 2009 meeting with the JoongAng Ilbo news,” I previously didn’t understand why Kim Il Sung wanted to kill President Park.” However, as I spent some time around, I learned the cause. Kim must have been concerned that South Korea, a developing nation, would become wealthy. South Korea would have more money to spend on weapons as the market expanded. In order to achieve communization of South Korea, Kim Il Sung must have been able to kill President Park.
However, Park Geun-hye, the daughter of Park Chung-hee, who became South Korea’s first female president in 2013, said in his 2007 book that he had alleged that the 1968 attack was carried out by “extremists” and that he had apologized for it. Kim Jong Il told her that they all received unknown expected punishment, according to Park Geun-hye.
Those remarks were not subject to independent investigation.
