North Korean spies yearn for home
- 11 years ago
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In a house in the South Korean capital, two former spies are still loyal to their homeland despite being trapped in exile.
Kim Young-sik and Park Hee-sung are among two dozen former North Korean agents held in the South.
Seventy-eight-year-old Park has been here for nearly half a century, but his beliefs haven't changed.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean) 78-YEAR-OLD FORMER NORTH KOREAN SPY PARK HEE-SUNG SAYING:
"For an hour, I wish I could live with my loving family in the party's embrace in my peacefully unified nation and die."
Park was captured in the 60s and jailed until his release in 1988.
As relations thawed, some North Korean prisoners were sent home. But a transfer for Park has never happened.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean) 78-YEAR-OLD FORMER NORTH KOREAN SPY PARK HEE-SUNG SAYING:
"Once they had released me from jail, they could have sent me home which is what I wanted. I don't understand why they d
In a house in the South Korean capital, two former spies are still loyal to their homeland despite being trapped in exile.
Kim Young-sik and Park Hee-sung are among two dozen former North Korean agents held in the South.
Seventy-eight-year-old Park has been here for nearly half a century, but his beliefs haven't changed.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean) 78-YEAR-OLD FORMER NORTH KOREAN SPY PARK HEE-SUNG SAYING:
"For an hour, I wish I could live with my loving family in the party's embrace in my peacefully unified nation and die."
Park was captured in the 60s and jailed until his release in 1988.
As relations thawed, some North Korean prisoners were sent home. But a transfer for Park has never happened.
SOUNDBITE: (Korean) 78-YEAR-OLD FORMER NORTH KOREAN SPY PARK HEE-SUNG SAYING:
"Once they had released me from jail, they could have sent me home which is what I wanted. I don't understand why they d