For those of you who have never heard of her, Kim Hyon-hui is a North Korean agent who planted a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858 which killed everyone on board casting a pall over the approaching 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She now lives in South Korea. I highly recommend her memoir The Tears of My Soul.
When Kim Hyon-hui was arrested after the terrorist attack, I was a student abroad. We heard the news and a few of us gathered in my room. We "determined" the act could not have possibly been committed by our honorable fatherland. It was just impossible. But there was one problem. One of my classmates who was a bit older said he knew Kim Hyon-hui. They went to the same school. We fell silent. But then we "determined" that Kim Hyon-hui must have been working for the enemies. The fact that she was alive was proof enough. The attack was nothing more than our enemy's attempt to sully our Republic's good name. With a heavy heart everyone returned to their rooms. We never talked about it again.
