Kim Shin-jo, a prominent North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea ... happened at the height of Cold War rivalry between the rival Koreas which was split into the U.S.-backed South ...

A former North Korean commando who took part in a failed 1968 mission to assassinate the then South ... The assassination attempt came at the height of the Cold War rivalry between the two countries, ...

21, 1968 — and North Korea’s seizure of the American reconnaissance ship U.S.S. Pueblo two days later — marked one of the peaks of Cold War tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula.