Family of South Korean dictator’s assassin seek treason acquittal | Malay Mail

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PAJU (South Korea), Dec 3 — Forty years after South Korea’s spy chief was executed for shooting dead his boss, dictator Park Chung-hee, the assassin’s sister is seeking to clear him of treason, arguing the killing was in the service of the country. But she is not seeking to overturn his...

Thursday, 03 Dec 2020 04:22 PM MYT

“A person needs to be punished for killing,” Kim Jae-gyu’s grey-haired sister Jung-sook, 81, told AFP. In October 1979, major rallies against Park’s rule broke out in the second city Busan and nearby Masan, infuriating the dictator. When she told him she was praying he would avoid the gallows, he told her not to bother: “Don’t pray for my life,” she quoted him as saying. “Rather pray first for Park’s parentless children.”

 

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