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...Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, Andrew Lynn ’02, Erik B. Sandegard ’02, Jillian R. Shulman ’02 and William Wailand ’02 of Cabot; Matthew A. Rojansky ’02 and Yuni Kim ’02 of Eliot House; and Christopher W. Cox ’02 of Kirkland House...
...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...
...Last year, the government quietly agreed to compensate injured ex-spies and families of agents who never returned. But the more than 2,200 men and women who went north and came back physically unscathed, like Kim Su Chan, got nothing. When he returned from a mission to gather intelligence in 1961, he expected to collect the money his recruiters had promised him. Instead, Seoul accused him of working for the North Koreans. They let him go but kept him under surveillance, and he couldn't get a job because the police interrogated anybody who hired him. He eventually retreated...
...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...