Kim Shin-jo

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Kim Shin-jo (Korean: 김신조; 2 June 1942 – 9 April 2025) was a North Korean soldier and defector who was one of two survivors of the 31-man team of North Korean commandos, known as Unit 124, sent to assassinate the then-president of South Korea and military dictator, Park Chung Hee, in the Blue House raid in January 1968. Kim was captured and during a year-long detention and interrogation divulged information on the raid to the South Korean authorities, before being released. He became a South Korean citizen and spent the rest of his life there.

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