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(EDITORIAL from the JoongAng Daily on March 12)
A shocking revelation
During a press conference yesterday, Kim Hyun-hee, one of the North Korean agents responsible for bombing Korean Air Flight 858 in 1987 with the loss of 115 lives, made public an interesting and noteworthy story. She reiterated that she had been responsible for planting the bomb and that North Korea was responsible, adding that she felt very sorry that some people still hold onto conspiracy theories.
More remarkable is Kim’s claim that the government and the National Intelligence Service during the Roh Moo-hyun administration pressured Kim to admit the act of terrorism was in fact a fabrication. While Kim’s press conference largely addressed the issue of the alleged abductions of Japanese civilians by the North, we are very interested in Kim’s comments about conspiracy theories.
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