Kim Shin-jo, Date of Birth

Kim Shin-jo

North Korean defector

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1942

Profession: pastor, military officer

Nationality: North Korea, South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Kim Shin-jo is one of two survivors of the 31-person team of North Korean commandos sent to assassinate the then president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, in the Blue House raid in January 1968.The only other survivor, Pak Jae-gyong, made it back to the North, but Kim Shin-jo was captured by South Korean forces.
He was interrogated for a year by the South Korean authorities before being released and after he became a citizen of South Korea in 1970, his parents were executed and his relatives purged by North Korean authorities.Kim later became a pastor at Sungrak Sambong church in Gyeonggi-do.
He has a wife and two children.