He has visited South Korea four times, without any luck. He says he’ll keep coming back, and tears rolled down his cheeks.
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 bydaughter of Park Chung-hee who became South Korea’s first woman president in 2013, the younger Park said when she met
in Pyongyang in 2002, he said the 1968 attack was orchestrated by “extremists” and he apologized for it. Park Geun-hye said Kim Jong Il told her that they all received unspecified due punishments.Those comments couldn’t be independently verified.
This story has corrected that Park Geun-hye and Kim Jong Il met in 2002, not 2022.
BERLIN (AP) — Walter Frankenstein, who“And we decided that we would do this a bit more frequently. It was very useful for my recovery. It’s probably been the most useful therapy I’ve had, and when I’m talking about therapies, physical therapy, eye coordination, reconnecting the bridges in the brain, things that were not as seamless as they used to be.”
Pagenaud is also open to a more formal role with former team Team Penske, where he spent seven seasons and time with their sports car program. Team President Tim Cindric didn’t rule out a role within the organization for the driver who contributed one of Roger Penske’s record 20 Indy 500 wins.McLaughlin has raved about what Pagenaud has brought him at Indy.
“I’m probably a detriment to my own career throughout the years — I haven’t been as intricate with looking at little details, and I think Simon is the professor in that regard,” McLaughlin said. “He strives for perfection in a lot of ways in how he sets up his car and what he feels. He’s probably allowing me to look into more details and just the way I look at myself and the driving, the lines and what I’m doing with weight jacker and bars. It’s really helped sort of accelerate my progress here, and really am enjoying working with a friend, as well.”That knowledge could be welcome inside Team Penske as a whole at some point, Cindric said.