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The tears of my soul : the true story of a North Korean spy by Kim, Hyun Hee is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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When Korean Air Lines flight 858 exploded in 1987, killing 115 passengers. international law-enforcement officials immediately started searching for the hardened North Korean terrorists who could have committed such a crime. What they found was Kim Hyun Hee, an idealistic young woman who had been transformed by her country into an obedient killing machine. The Tears of My Soul is her poignant, shocking, and utterly compelling story. Kim Hyun Hee grew up in a country obsessed by the loss of South Korea, an Orwellian world where right and wrong, good and evil, slavery and freedom meant nothing but what the North Korean Communist Party said they did. At sixteen, she was singled out by the Party for her intelligence and beauty and given special training in languages. At nineteen she was honored to be chosen for the North Korean Army's secret and elite espionage school. There she was trained to kill with everything from her hands and feet to grenades and assault rifles, enduring years of grueling physical and psychological conditioning designed to make her an effective and utterly obedient tool of the Party's spy masters. And in 1987, at age twenty-five, she was sent on the mission that
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- Author
- Kim, Hyun Hee
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780688128333
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (578 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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