“In North Korea, I lived as Kim Il-sung's robot. In South Korea, I got to live a new life.”

—  Kim Hyon-hui

"She killed 115 people before the last Korean Olympics. Now she wonders: ‘Can my sins be pardoned?’" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cC9NX5WV1gkJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/she-killed-115-people-before-the-last-korean-olympics-now-she-wonders-can-my-sins-be-pardoned/2018/02/05/ae51588c-0a31-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (25 February 2018)

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