Kim hui
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The North Korean spy who blew up a plane
"When I look back it makes me feel sad. Why did I have to be born in North Korea? Look at what it did to me."
She also believes, perhaps wishfully, that the days of the Kim dynasty are numbered.
With the founders of the dynasty - Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il - now dead, their impoverished kingdom has been handed down to the 30-year-old Kim Jong-un.
"North Korea is in a desperate situation," she says. "Discontent with Kim Jong-un is so high; he has to put a lid on it.
"The only thing he has is nuclear weapons. That's why he has created this sense of war, to try to rally the population. He's doing business with his nuclear weapons."
In 1989 a South Korean court sentenced Kim Hyun-hui to death, but President Roe Tae-Woo gave her a pardon.
She later married a South Korean intelligence officer with whom she has two children.
Some might say she got off lightly considering what she did. But she says she still carries a heavy burden of guilt.
She says she has found solace in Christianity, an
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The Tears of My Soul
1993 book by Kim Hyon Hui
The Tears of My Soul (Korean: 이제 여자가 되고 싶어요 – 내영혼의 눈물; lit. Now, I wish to become a woman – My soul's tears) is the memoir of Kim Hyon-hui, a former North Korean agent known for planting the bomb on board Korean Air Flight 858. This book recounts one of North Korean state-sponsored acts of terror.
Kim tells the story of how she was trained as a spy and assigned a mission given by Kim Jong-il to blow up a South Korean airliner. The book details her early training and life as a party member in Macau, Hainan, and across Europe; her terrorist act; and her consequent trial, reprieve, and integration into South Korean society.
The book has been translated into a number of languages, including German.[1]
On page 3 of the book Kim writes:
This book is dedicated to the families of the victims of Flight 858. All proceeds deriving from the book will be donated to them.[2]
Rémi Kauffer, in The Black Book of Communism, has some reservations about the truthfulness of The Tears of My Soul,
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Kim Hyon-hui (AKA Kim Hyeon-hui), a former North Korean agent who in Pyongyang had contacts with abductees Yaeko Taguchi (now 67 years old), and Megumi Yokota (now 57 years old), and who later carried out the 1987 Korean Air Flight bombing, gave an interview to The Sankei Shimbun in Seoul on September 15.
In the interview Kim Hyon-hui stated that she is convinced that the two Japanese abductees are alive, and that North Korea has alleged their deaths because the two women are aware of the “internal secrets and weaknesses of North Korea and the leader’s family.” The Pyongyang government “is afraid that the secrets would be made public if they return the abductees,” she said.
North Korea's Abduction of Japanese Citizens
Kim Jong Il, who was General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) acknowledged and apologized for the abductions of Japanese nationals at the first summit meeting between Japan (Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) and North Korea (Kim Jong Il) in 2002. Kim Hyon-hui recalled her surprise when she came across the news in South Korea, where she was l
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