dirtnapp / died in 2025 / is kim shin-jo alive or dead?

Kim Shin-jo

North Korean defector

dead

born: 1942
died: 2025
age at death: 82
known for: pastor, military officer

tell everyone

who kim shin-jo is

Kim Shin-jo was a North Korean soldier and defector who was one of two survivors of the 31-man team of North Korean commandos, known as Unit 124, sent to assassinate the then-president of South Korea and military dictator, Park Chung Hee, in the Blue House raid in January 1968. Kim was captured and during a year-long detention and interrogation divulged information on the raid to the South Korean authorities, before being released. He became a South Korean citizen and spent the rest of his life there.

from wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA.

where this comes from

wikidata records a date of death for Kim Shin-jo in 2025, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.

read wikipedia →wikidata record (Q624742) →something wrong? →