Kim Shin-jo, a prominent 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, has died.

In 2003, a shipyard union leader demanding better working conditions staged a sit-in at the top of a 116-foot-tall crane in Busan on the south coast for 129 days until he hanged himself there.

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent 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, has died.