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Hyun Hee Kim

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in Kaesong, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

January 27, 1962

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Kim Hyun-Hui is a former North Korean operative responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people. She was born in Kaesong. Her father was a career diplomat and as a result, the family lived in Cuba for some time. Kim excelled as a student and in after-school activities.

She was originally trained as an actress, and starred in North Korea's first Technicolor film, playing a girl whose family fled to the North to escape poverty in South Korea (as North Koreans are taught that South Koreans live in extreme poverty). In 1972, due to her family connections, she was selected to present flowers to the senior South Korean delegate at the North-South talks in Pyongyang. After graduating from high school, she enrolled ...more