Kim Shin-jo, a prominent North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have skipped a visit to the family mausoleum on the birth anniversary of his ...

In 1968, Kim was part of a 31-member North Korean commando unit that attempted to infiltrate the South Korean presidential palace to assassinate Park, who had been South Korea’s authoritarian ...

Mr. Kim remained in South Korea after his capture in a failed 1968 mission to assassinate the country’s president.

By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Kim Shin-jo, the only captured member of a team of 31 North Korean commandos who came within striking distance of the South Korean presidential palace in ...

Kim and 30 other North Korean soldiers managed to cross the heavily militarised border between the two Koreas, before getting within striking distance of Park's presidential palace. All but a few ...

Kim was among a team of 31 North Korean commandos who tried to storm South Korea's mountainside presidential palace to assassinate Park, an authoritarian president who had been ruling South Korea ...