Adam Rawnsley
The two dozen commandos trained to kill North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung on a remote island off the coast of South Korea never made it to Pyongyang.
The men of the 2325th Group’s 209th Detachment had been recruited from the country’s poor, desperate, and criminal and brought to Silmido Island to be trained to become assassins. To South Korea’s own authoritarian leaders in 1968, this meant they had to be hardened.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-many-failed-attempts-to-kill-the-leaders-of-north-korea-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T
