ET: SEOUL—It was the fall of 1969. Having planted four Claymore mines on a road just 1.25 miles north of the inter-Korean border, Kim Sung Kil, from South Korea, was waiting in ambush for North Korean soldiers escorting a two-star general from the Soviet Union.
At about 5 a.m., the sun had risen, and 24 North Korean soldiers were making their way alongside three cars, inside one of which was the general. Bang! Kim pushed the button, exploding the mines. “Everyone tumbled,” Kim, 69, told The Epoch Times, recalling his mission to the North.
Kim ran towards the South as the North Korean soldiers began to shoot at him.
It was October, but it was already cold in the mountainous area around the inter-Korean border. After making it safely back to South Korean territory, Kim warmed himself by the fire.
Suddenly, Kim felt his shoes were sticky. He looked down and saw blood. He had been shot three or four times, he said, but hadn’t been aware of the pain and bullet wounds until then.
He was carried to a nearby military hospital for treatment. The hospital left no record of his admittance.
In South Korea, there are about 13,000 former spies like Kim. Yet, even after they were discharged from the army, their existence was denied by the government for decades. Despite the severe mental and physical after-effects of their experiences as special agents, the former soldiers The Epoch Times talked to said they are still willing to fight for their country. more here
Screwed over by their own government, big surprise there.
“The Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions…”
Spies are thought of the same way by their own, and foreign, governments, the same way as snipers used to be thought of. Trained, used, and abused, and seldom if ever acknowledged by either side. But it’s a necessary, albeit dirty job.
@Toxic Deplorable B Woodman April 6, 2019 at 9:19 pm
> the same way as snipers used to be thought of
In a country where abortion is now a leading cause of death. Hmm. Imagine that.
Hu Flung Pu has always questioned the voracity of this account.
never mind, I apologize, lost my train of thought at ‘felt his shoes were sticky’,,,