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...South Korean army uniforms but their Russian coats and incongruous black sneakers caught the eye of a suspicious South Korean cop and most were apprehended and executed. Park was so enraged he ordered the formation of his own 31-strong hit squad with the parallel mission of assassinating Kim Il Sung, his counterpart in the North...
...Seoul's secrets are out, big time. Sony's Columbia TriStar Films recently agreed to fund a South Korean production com-pany's movie about the hit squad ordered to kill Kim Il Sung. (Filming will start this August.) Hewing closely to the original story, the movie will expose a part of history that most Koreans know little about. Under past military governments, it was taboo to mention the spy operations, says producer Jonathan Kim: "We were taught we didn't do stuff like that, only the North did. Nobody has talked about...
...most audacious plan of all was the attempt to assassinate Kim Il Sung. The men chosen for the mission were a rough bunch, including a few death-row inmates, according to former camp guards. The identities of the members of this Korean version of The Dirty Dozen were erased when they signed up, leaving their families with no idea what had happened to them. They were sent to the tiny, deserted island of Shilmi off the coast west of Seoul in 1968. One of the first things the men did upon arrival was to dig up a Chinese grave, grind...
...concrete remains of the camp, which was blown up after the mutiny. A few 30 cm-high faux mountains lie in the underbrush, all that's left of an elaborate concrete-and-papier-machE model of Pyongyang the men used to learn the layout of the streets around Kim Il Sung's residence. The surviving trainers want to build a memorial there to those who died. The ex-spies hope this will force Koreans to remember the sacrifices they made during the war that officially never happened...
...time. My dad has been wanting me back home for months." Three people, including Fasulo, were killed, and another 29 were injured. As the world tuned in and President George W. Bush received regular briefings, Milan tried to make sense of its unwanted attention and the improbable gash in Il Pirellone (big Pirelli), Italy's first bona fide skyscraper, now owned by the Lombardy government. Though terrorism had been ruled out, many in Milan continued to wonder if the building was not a target in some other way. Maurizio Invernizzi came to the site to "try to figure...