How to Pronounce Kim Hyon-hui
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Jan 27, 1962 Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea 62 years old
former North Korean agent
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About Kim Hyon Hui
- Kim Hyon-hui (Korean: ???, born 27 January 1962), also known as Ok Hwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people.
- She was arrested in Bahrain following the bombing and extradited to South Korea.
- There she was sentenced to death but later pardoned. North Korea denies that Kim was born in the North, and regards her entire biography to be a fabrication of the South.
- Some districts in Japan fund North Korean-run schools which teach that Kim was a South Korean agent.
- According to Kim's testimony, she was taught Japanese in connection to her mission by Yaeko Taguchi, one of at least 13 Japanese abducted by North Korea.In recent years, Kim has publicly expressed regret about the bombing and she has provided information about the state of affairs in North Korea as well as the possible state of abductees.
