A Week of Terror in 1968

US soldiers patrol the DMZ, Nov. 1969 (PC: AP).

“We thought the president there was a stooge, an American collaborator. I hated him.”       – Kim Shin-jo, member of a North Korean commando team sent to assassinate the South Korean president in January 1968 On the afternoon of January 17, 1968, a 31-man, hand-picked team of North Korean commandos who had been…

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