内容摘要：Haitian immigrant Sherlie Jean, a fast food worker, shows photos from her U.S. wedding to Kevenson Jean, a truck driver, April 16, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Haitian immigrant Sherlie Jean, a fast food worker, shows photos from her U.S. wedding to Kevenson Jean, a truck driver, April 16, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

and came within striking distance of Park’s palace. After battles that raged for two weeks in the nearby hills, all but three of the intruders were killed. Two survivors were believed to have returned to North Korea, while Kim was the only one captured alive by South Korean forces.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.”

The attack, which also killed about 30 South Koreans, happened at the height of Cold War rivalry between the rival Koreas which were split into the U.S.-backed South and the Soviet-supported North at the end of World War II in 1945. Afterward, Park’s government launched reservist forces, established a military unit tasked with attacking North Korea, had students take military training at schools and introduced residential registration card systems.In media interviews, Kim said he was pardoned because he didn’t fire a single bullet during the shootouts and was persuaded by South Korean officials to disavow communism. He said South Korean intelligence authorities later had him travel across the country to make speeches critical of North Korean systems at schools, companies and other places.Kim said he later learned that his parents in North Korea were executed. Kim was ordained as a pastor in 1997.

Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung died of heart attack in 1994, handing over power to his son Kim Jong Il, the father of“I earlier didn’t know why Kim Il Sung wanted to kill President Park,” Kim Shin-jo said in a 2009 interview with the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. “But I came to know the reason as I spent time here. Kim must have been afraid of a poor country such as South Korea becoming rich. As the economy improved, South Korea would secure more money to buy weapons. From Kim Il Sung’s perspective, he couldn’t help killing President Park to achieve communization of South Korea.”

But in a 2007 autobiography by

daughter of Park Chung-hee who became South Korea’s first woman president in 2013, the younger Park said when she metA man looks for plastic items at Karakoy ferry terminal in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

In the evening, his father brings his truck around and they load up the days’ haul of paper and plastic from Dogan and others in the area to sell to recycling facilities. After being processed, it will be used in industrial applications or reused as carton and paper.Late at night, thieves sometimes stop them on the streets, asking for money.

“If we refuse, they threaten us,” Dogan says. “We work more than 12 hours, sometimes 17 (a day). If we take a day off, we go hungry.”A man pushes his cart with discarded plastic items and cartons at Kadikoy district in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)