I Was a North Korean Spy Sent To Kill South Korea's President | Bad Blood
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- On January 17 1968, 31 North Korean special force members crossed South Korea to kill the President. Kim Shin-jo is one of two survivors who lived to share their story.
CORRECTION: @11:22 - The text description " All of Kim's comrades committed suicide except him" is not an accurate depiction of the context. It should read " Most of Kim's comrades committed suicide or were killed". We regret the error.
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My grandfather was born in North Korea,
..when the WWII ended and Korea was divided, my grandfather decided to live in South because he was against communism, and he fought for the South Korean Army in the Korean War.
When I was young and immature, I used to make bad comments to my grandfather because he used to have the North Korean accent, I regret all that till now, because he passed away 5 years ago and I feel bad over the bad comments I used to make to him for having the North Korean accent.
I wonder if my grandfather felt like Mr. Kim Shin-Jo, being discriminated because you were born in the North.
I miss my grandfather so much, everytime he appears on my dreams, I just hug him and apologize for my immature behavior.
maybe your grandpop felt a little bit of pain but I am sure he would understand it because he knew that you don't really mean it and you have not actually seen the horrors of war.
Hi, Mr. Coreano Mochilero. I also do have north korean grand parents that migrated to the south and fought all their best against the North in Korean war. Nice to see you living in Korea. I am a millenial era born generation so that i am at late 20s in my age. anyway, nice to see someone in same background as i do. i never seen someone like you in my life yet.
i do hope this documentary shall help North Korean nationals realize how the Great British ruled world is the best world for them and ourselves.
I do support all my best to make my home country, Republic of Korea with english based public education that common wealth nations like UAE and Singapore have their children to strive in learning the more to become flourished with English basis and strengthen ties between AUKUS and ROK
one korea thats the real power of the korean people no more devide an rule
In my faith, i believe your grandfather is in heaven, and understands you were just young. He loves you and waits for you in paradise 💚
Your grandfather sounds like a wise man. I'm sure he understood where your bad comments were truly aimed rather than thinking they were towards him. Even if you didn't fully know it yourself at that age. It's truly sad to read, however I personally would believe that he deeply understood you loved him.
"When you're on the verge of death, you don't think about a mission, or even your parents and siblings. Everything happens in a moment".
Damn, that is some deep depiction of soldier's life.
After the war my uncle went to North Korea back when they were doing better than South Korea. He graduated from SNU and was very smart so I think he was of value to their government. During the early years he would communicate secretly with his family via a Japanese messenger friend. Once NK started really cracking down on those foreigners our family lost all contact with him. Crazy knowing I have cousins over there that I'll likely never meet, and I get often curious whether they're living a good life.
They could defect theoretically but it's hard. If you find out they aren't doing well, you could save up money to smuggle them out. If they are rich or well off, they can get permission to study in China/Russia and you can meet them there. Definitely lots of possibilities but none will be easy,
I pray one day yall will be reunited and until then, may God bless them with decent, safe lives there 🙏🏻
One of my great-uncles sided with North Korea and fought for them during the war. We have no idea what happened to him.
좋은 삶을 살고 있겠냐? 북한에서?
@@JahreadyKnow in beginning during Soviet era
VICE, this is one of the greatest human interest stories you've ever done. Props to everyone involved.
Yes. That seclusion, discrimination, loneliness, human will, guilty to a man who was taught nothing but to fight.
I always wonder what a unified Korea would be like today in 2022.
No proxy war like Ukraine.
Found this interesting article on the Korean Civil War and now I'm sharing with yall.
Approximately 150,000 troops from South Korea, the United States, and participating U.N. nations were killed in the Korean War, and as many as one million South Korean civilians perished. An estimated 800,000 communist soldiers were killed, and more than 200,000 North Korean civilians died.
If U.S. had stayed out of the Korean war, Korea would be one. Was it worth it for U.S to lose all those lives? What did Americans gain?
How does this question looks like now? You know, Korea was about to BE ONE before US stepped in. So one can also argue that it is the U.S who cause the death of thousands of Koreans.
You may then argue: But South Koreans live much better lives than their counterparts in the north, so life would have been better if South Korea had won the war!
Well, I am sorry to show you this GDP graph:
The North Koreans had been always richer than their southern neighbors until the 1970s(The North has much less population but similar GDP).
You may then ask: But the north was ruled by dictator! But if you do some research, you will surprisingly find that the South WAS too.
Wars are never about good or evil, they are always rooted to national interests. People just painted their enemy into evil to justify their own actions. So what was the root cause of Korean War ? Division of the world by USSR and The U.S. They divided Korea into two for their own interests, also happened in Germany, Vietnam and so on. Just like what the British Empire did in India and Pakistan. Which almost guarantees wars between those two parts.
So why would someone ask questions like this? Westerners were bombarded by negative informations from their “free” medias about China for decades. When they think about China, they firstly tell themselves China is bad, and then see China through this coloured lense so that they can never get a neutral view of China.
--Mark
Brown University’s Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The numbers, while conservatively estimated, are staggering. Brown’s researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them civilians. In addition to those killed by direct acts violence, the number of indirect deaths - those resulting from disease, displacement, and the loss of critical infrastructure - is believed to be several times higher, running into the millions.
--Brown University’s
The war in Afghan was never about 'counterterrorism'...it was all about business and using afghan as a cover for money laundering and enriching the huge military contractors and politicians, as well as proxy to destabilize the region to contain the likes of Iran, China, Russia etc.
-Jeff L
I'm still having trouble fathoming how a country (Afghanistan) with trillions of U.S. dollars in unextracted mineral, gem, and metal deposits is somehow still a "undeveloped" and poor country.
-Joel Davis
The US has oppression, exploitation of foreign countries and brainwashing of its own population down to an art.
-chamade166
@@condorX2 true
@@condorX2 If the United States didn’t aid South Korea then SK would look the same as North Korea today
@@condorX2 Also Korea was going to forcefully be one because North Koreas army crossed the 38th parallel and Invaded non communist Korea. So just stfu with your bs
Damn, this story hits in so many levels. it deserves its own movie.
At one point you have a story of a Nationalist training for war and adventure. And setting off on your mission.
Then you have a humanitarian story of letting innocent people go.
Then you are back again to the thrill of being hunted.
After the arrests, you have a story of a broken man. Your family is dead. There is nothing for you in the world.
But then a woman comes along and saves you.
She saves you yet again when you hit depression.
Now both of them are in a happy ending.
Amazing.
There is a huge power organization in South Korea. They have a monopoly on investigative powers and policing powers and even intelligence powers. it is the same as the CIA, FBI, and Police combined. I criticized this as very dangerous. Then they tried to kill me. They lurked in the hospital and injected me with detergent. They have committed three atrocities against me They can do this thousands of times
That woman making her life mission to do everything she can to get this unique man into the South Korean society is just incredible.
Their story isn't over yet, and hopefully they will have a few more happy chapters.
Head of North Korean Intelligence: *sends men that fail to kill Park Chung-Hee*
Head of South Korean Intelligence: “I’ll do it myself!”
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Yeah lol. By the way this operation was called Blue House raid.
anyway the presidentof S Korea got assassiated by his man, chief of S korean CIA, Kim, Jae Kyu, a former SK army general
@@psuirsea5522 yeah I was actually researching about KCIA now NIS but didn't much details do you know some articles or authors so that I can know more about it?
perhaps hopefully.
Park Chung Hee, the CIA & the Bomb
By Peter Hayes
Published: September 2011
My uncle disappeared during the war. He is probably dead. My dad first wife died during the war.
What a tragic korean war ….
Any war is tragic…..
What a great documentary. I even teared up at the last part thinking what he had to go through and how he found his true love despite all of things.
Very touching story. I'm glad he and his family is happy.
Why for trying to assassinate the president lol 😆
What an incredible and emotional story. Well done VICE!
This story touched my heart! Thank you for creating this video. Grace, love and forgiveness transform people. ❤️
Both the lumberjacks and the spies must have been so young at that time it happened, north was more prosperous at that time so they took pity to the war torn residence of south, war really brings out the worst in people but im glad they did the opposite to those young lumberjacks. children always suffer the most.
gods imagine how the PTSD was for him😭😭
Really cool how he got to be friends with the lumberjack
War destroys life of innocent! God gives us peace
So then why does God allow war and suffering?
i don't want piece!! i want problem.. ALWAYS!!
@@BAGAKOOS it’s because ppl who r super egoistic thinks they r god and let the world into war that is why
why does god want to destroy idols and peaceful polytheists and pagans.
@@BAGAKOOS there is a big difference between allowing and ordering.
In 1968, Kim was most hated man by every South Korean soldiers due to their military service were extended by 6 months. Many men who were about to receive an honorable discharge were suddenly promoted to non-commission officers’ rank, and were forced to serve additional 6 months.
There is a huge power organization in South Korea. They have a monopoly on investigative powers and policing powers and even intelligence powers. it is the same as the CIA, FBI, and Police combined. I criticized this as very dangerous. Then they tried to kill me. They lurked in the hospital and injected me with detergent. They have committed three atrocities against me They can do this thousands of times
Is that a problem I mean look at the good side South Korea is one of the most advanced and economically stable countries in the world.
@@laknidubandara that's not the point
@@hellokatie888 well it should be
That's funny. How many wanted to kill this guy just for that?
Another great video from vice
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES I HAVE HEARD IN MY LIFE.
And that mineral is the same from Paradito Island
So simple-but yet, so difficult........... Great video! Thank you!
Very excellent documentary. Thank You so much.
After Ghim Shin-jo incident in Jan. 1968, President Bahk Jung-hee did try to revenge Ghim Il-sung. South Korean military, in secret, formed special forces to infiltrate North Korea, kill Ghim Il-sung and destroy economic facilities.
In Apr. 1968, the Army trained them in Sun-gahp Island, Navy in Jang-bong Island, Airforce in Shil-mi Island, and Marines in Mt. Mani of Gahng-hwa Island. Each forces consisted of 31 men, as North Korean infiltrators did. The men were mostly from the bottom of the barrel, who were poor and got nothing in the society. Few of them were severe convicts who had no choice but to live in jail forever or serve death sentence. They were tricked by the government for a "New prosperous life" and not knowing, they joined in. All of them were hidden in Incheon, trained to become "killing machines."
However, after Richard Nixon became US president in 1969, everything changed. Nixon tried to end the Vietnam War and planned reconciliation with China. So South Korean government had to halt the revenge on North Korea. They just left the forces there, for 3 WHOLE YEARS.
For 3 years, those men were going through all those harsh training without freedom, trapped in the islands. Finally in Aug. 1971, The Shil-mi troops of the Airforce revolted, killing their training officers and escaped the island. They landed on Incheon by boats, and siezed a bus to storm into the Blue House and confront president Bahk Jung-hee. Of course, the government didn't let them succeed. The police and military forces engaged them in the city and stopped them.
Among 31 men, 27 were killed, and 4 survived. The 27 killed were buried secretly in a cemetery in Seoul. The other 4 survivors were executed for "treason". After that, the government officially announced the event "North Korean infiltration" or "Rebellion by armed military prison escapees." What about their families? The families were NEVER notified about what happened to their "missing" loved ones.
After South Korean democratization in 1987, this incident became a social issue. In early 2000s, the families finally knew what happened and they strongly demanded investigation and apology toward the government. The 27 bodies in the cemetery were found, but what happened to the other 4 bodies still remains unknown.
@@ahad800 Bahk Jung-hee(박정희) was the 5~9th president & 2nd dictator of South Korea(1961~1979). (Currently Koreans write in "Park Chung-hee," but what I wrote above is much more accurate to the actual pronunciation.) Ghim Shin-jo and his fellow troops from North Korea tried to assassinate him on Jan. 21st, 1968. The video above is about the event and Ghim himself, the only survivor.
President Bahk was so angry toward North Korea and Ghim Il-sung. So he wanted revenge. My first comment above is about the South Korean special forces for Bahk's revenge. One of them in Shil-mi Island under Airforce control tried to storm into the Blue House on Aug. 23rd, 1971.
In 2003, the movie "실미도"(Silmido) was released. This movie has LOTS of historical errors, but it's also the first movie that reached 10 million audiences in South Korea. Despite the historical error problem, it is indeed a well-made masterpiece.
Movie review
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The most famous scene of the movie
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If you want to know about the real event, I'll leave the links of documentaries below. I hope you understand, because all of them are in Korean.
The first documentary about the event aired in 1999.
PS: Very serious and long.
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Documentary(summarized ver.) aired in 2004.
PS: Checks the difference between the movie and the real event.
ua-cam.com/video/-GYpqv4d6Bc/v-deo.html
Documentary(summarized ver.) aired in 2021.
PS: If you wanna be immersed, check this out.
ua-cam.com/video/VH95dStauAg/v-deo.html
If you want to know about the other troops in Sun-gahp Island(Army), Jang-bong Island(Navy) and Mani Mountain(Marines), check this out.
ua-cam.com/video/Que-iyJqE0s/v-deo.html
@@dewjade4897 Really Appreciate your reply, thank you so much. Its broke my heart what happened to the soldiers who were in the island 💔 did their family charge anyone? Or bc they poor it’s almost impossible to get justice .
@@ahad800 Nobody in the government and military was charged for the case. In fact, most of them who are responsible died long time ago. The families had to be satisfied with knowing the truth and finding their bodies.
Except the families of the 4 executed. A military prosecutor in the Airforce during the case confessed 2 years ago, that the 4 were buried somewhere inside the Airforce Headquarters, but doesn't know the exact location.
Furthermore, the families of the training officers who were killed during the revolt on the island, and the families of the soldiers, police, civilians who died during engagement on the way to the Blue House, doesn't even get attention by the press. The survivors, still to this day, are suffering PTSD.
@@dewjade4897 those special forces were not consist of poor people
@@dewjade4897 가난한 사람이라고 하지말고 돈 많이 주니깐 갔겠지
Wow ,this video just forced me to think
👏👏 Outstanding documentry.
Ah. It's so touching...
"Time is like medicine. Although we met through the worst possible relationship, we really do consider you guys as the people who saved us. As time passed, our relationship healed. I no longer see him as someone who tried to kill me."-Lumber jack Woo Min-jae
Wow.. 🙏
What a great story he has. The condo they lived in seems luxurious and expensive. I like what he said at the beginning that what they have as a family is all happiness. His wife is a very good match for him and I can still see she loves him very much. Most important of all, they are devoted to God. Truly they are blessed.
I'm glad they let the lumberjacks go. From an objective standpoint, that was a foolish idea though. The North Korean commandos probably wouldn't have succeeded anyway, but they would have gone much further. It shows however that the North Korean commandos were good people at heart too.
Many North Koreans who now reside is S.Korea says they felt their life were just normal, until they saw S.Korean dramas and Tv shows.
A former North Korean UK ambassador who now is a S.Korean politician said "If you don't know you are a slave, your life is happy.
But if you realize you are living as a slave, every moment of your life becomes so painful.
The relationship wuth the wife is so sweet, you could tell she really had the hots for him and the passion is still there at their old age
Thank you vice.
Truly inspiring
Absolutely enjoyed this.
Documentary is really good one ... one more thing is important here is comment section where you will get more information about the situation... knowing others point of view is important too. ...
amazing story
nice and quality stories, love it!
Dang 31 people 2 survived
wonder if the one that returned to nk got executed for failing the mission.
@@MeoithTheSecond It would have been a waste though... They failed the mission anyway so executing someone with experience would be stupid.
@@MeoithTheSecond nahh he's still alive and well currently at 90. The name's Pak Jae-gyong. He became the Vice Minister in the Ministry of People's Armed Forces and a KPA General.
@@basukonshiro how he safely return to north korea?
May the Great Spirit watch over you. 🙏
What a fascinating story!
Very impressive documentary
That documentary was proper wish it was longer 🙉👍🏿
he finally found forever general.
hm... what a difficult decission this man made and still did right by himself... some want to kill, but cant... others kill, but shouldnt... others are able to, but have to choose wisely... he chose wisely... look at the country... it sure is expensive living there... but the people dont seem to have something of lack...
Her devotion to make him feel love and freedom is unlike any other.
crazy how vice finds these people
A very nice and touching story. Why no one make this into a movie?
Cool job👍
Lovely story
UA-cam putting that algorithm to work today huh
I would not have watched this had I not returned to Korea for being a victim of abuse of power by my own compatriot(s) leading the abuse. It was tough but I'm glad it happened because it showed me how God's work is unfathomable, like what conveys this man's testimony. The people I met were often full of humaneness like the village people who voted for his life and not death, putting themselves in his shoes.
You got the part with the voting wrong. The north Soldiers voted if they should leave the workers life and our protagonist wanted them to die at that point (they basicaly failed their mission right there). When confronted with his own death he deciced to life. This just shows me how conflicting our views can be and that we all are egoistic but still social beings. This man turned out to be a wonderful human being with his fair share of bad decisions. I hope i will find peace in myself in a similar fasion and look up to him. What kind of abuse did u suffer? Sounds like something that would have crushed my faith in other humans completly , but u seem to have recovered from that.
The mountain two men story sounded like the shilmido case covered by kokkomu .....is it same ????
His wife is such a beauty and gem! So mature and how thoughtful of her to think of him needing a family support so she figured she reached out to him. This woman is rly amazing
Ngl someone recommended me to watch this video because of the love story between the couple,but I find it very interesting on how the whole story speculated from the beginning.
Great story 🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇺🇸🇵🇭
Wow❤️
Woah. Deep. I'm impressed by this one.
We need a movie out of this story
As a Christian who loves history, I was deeply touched by this and I’m glad he’s fine now. ✝❤🇰🇷
✝️
That was the first time in my life when I heard the word "Freedom"... man, that made me eyes wet for some reason.
The guy who was almost killed by the assassin, straight up describing Stockholm syndrome. Eesh.
Omg 🤯😧
Hopefully, Vice now understand the word FREEDOM.
As a US Arny soldier I remember this like yesterday' I was in Soul. Alot of violence going on 66 67 68. Many good soldiers died. Soth Korean people are good and courageous.
In all his photos he barely smiles, expressions say alot about someone
The commandos were highly skilled in taekwondo as well and beat down South Korean soldiers pretty badly in a friendly match. The president demanded better training for SK.
Feel like seeing a movie...with happy ending....
Wow.
What happened to the other guy?
Best women and best wife ever...It really touched my heart 💖
Well this is why South Korea monitors North Koreans and Chinese not surprised.
Very interesting story
I'm gonna tell my kids that this is Crash Landing on You
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4:56 a North Korean spy in 1968 with a Glock? lmao.
I wouldn't mind a time travel movie featuring North Korean assassins from the future
I am happy he man of God. makes me tear in the eye
6:24 공비와 나무꾼의 재회 ㄷㄷㄷ
A really good film to watch as a consequence of this incident is called "Silmido." President Park personally ordered retaliation against Kim Il Sung after the attempt on his life. As a result, a black ops unit called 684 was formed as an independent detachment under the ROK Air Force with the same goal. After 2 years of training, the mission was scraped due to improving relations between the two countries.
Reasons are still not clear to this day, but the recruits seemed to have had enough and consequently, they mutinied and killed most, if not all of the training personnel on the island. They made their way to the mainland to file their grievances to the ROK government, but were stopped by the military and a shootout ensued and I think all but 2-3 of them were captured, only to be executed shortly afterwards.
Their Northern counterparts, unit 124 are shown briefly in the film, but it lays reasonably good context of the pretty tumultuous times in our history and illustrating how fragile our republic was from the 60s all the way to culmination of the Gwangju uprising in 1980....
As they say.....freedom ain't free.
i used to be a Mayor of a North Korean town
not bad, just strict to North Korean beliefs
i even found a Siberian Tiger cub and raised her for 7 years
When everyone has freedom and are equal, we will have peace. 🤔 Sounds familiar, where did we hear that before?
Crazy how I was interested and read it. It's also weird how South Korea didn't use their special force to kill North Korean presidents either.
They mutiny and all died.
Well there were some cases and the well known case were called "silmido" which is an island name of South Korea 684 units were trained years and years in that island just to kill "Kim jung il" and that unit still exist .. the name have been changed to "HID" and there's a movie called "silmido" it's well made and interesting
Yes right but it was not necessarily to kill Kim but to take out operation during Korean dmz conflict during that time nk forces were doing cross border raids like it was on large scale therefore they made this unit to do counter strikes in nk side of dmz i would recommend you to research about it there many interesting incidents during this time.
Imagine if they did. South Korea would be invaded by the Soviet Union and China itself. WW3 would start
they did massacre communists on jeju island though
Why hasn't a movie been done about this?
💙
Sauth always respect from usa
Back then we also have this kind of assassinations between Taiwan and China, both of us sent our frogmen by swimming to the enemy controlled coastline to conduct this kind of dirty job.
rip to those frogmen, become peon of war
Fun fact: As part of proof that the trainee frogmen have successfully infiltrated as part of their final training mission , they were required to show proof of landing, often in the form of cinema tickets.
Why haven't u reported back.
What a crazy world we live in... Balance is key.
"Sometimes [the mock infliltration] would get so intense that we would actually start to stab and shoot each other"
when you're supposed to train and end up killing half of the trainees
I reckon his name and the failed mission was featured in the first part of the movie called SILMIDO.
This guy still misses first wife In the north
3:33 wtf
His laying
Really interesting!
the content is good.
but VICE is still very amateur overall in production value.
it cant match top level production of cold fusion series.
The most difficult part of this story is that his family in the North was executed. I'm not judging him, but he must have known that would happen beforehand. I'd like to think I would save my family and take my own life. I can't say for sure that I would though.
Mr. Kim in real life
Big w
Absolutely. We don't have true freedom because of greed. Greed creates inequality. More inequality creates less freedom. It's all so relevant. I hope one day we can achieve equality so that we can obtain true freedom.
They should make a movie based on this guy.
Why aren't subtitles offered for foreigners?
Praise God .well said greediness
dosen apa sih yg mendukung orang untuk nyantet atau membunuh.
War was greed by the Leaders, not the Citizens, I blame on Leaders of Country off my land soil and by Foreign Soil.