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Rory Sullivan

North Korean commando involved in plot to kill South Korean president dies at 82

A former North Korean commando who took part in a failed 1968 mission to assassinate the then South Korean president has died at the age of 82.

Kim Shin-jo, the only North Korean to be captured alive during the raid, famously admitted that he and his colleagues had come "to slit the throat" of Park Chung-hee, South Korea’s authoritarian leader.

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