or the more despicable characters of recent years (Chun Doo-hwan, Kim Jong-il). When you are faced with someone like Park Chung-hee, however, things become a bit more complicated. And yet ...

In a news conference arranged by South Korean authorities, Kim stunned the nation by saying that his team came “to slit the throat of Park Chung-hee.” Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter ...

Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea with an iron fist for more than 15 years before he was killed. (AFP pic) A South Korean court said today it had reopened the case of the assassination of former ...

October 26th marks the anniversary of the assassination of South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. Park was shot in ... revealing Kim’s character to be both complex and conflicted.

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed ...

By Motoko Rich The fire destroyed part of a memorial to Park Chung-hee, the assassinated dictator and father of South Korea’s embattled president, Park Geun-hye. A bizarre scandal and an ...