When meeting with Kim Jong Il, the Korean spy rejected the toasting of the late North Korean leader, because he promised his mother to never drink.
But the undercover agent disguised as a businessman swear that he will break the ring on the day of the DPRK and South Korea.Until not long ago, unification is the most important policy goal of leaders of the two countries.
North Korea Kim Jong Il gave this spy named Park Caishu as a bottle of blueberry wine as a gift. Park Caishu asked another bottle, which made Kim Jong Il very happy.
"Mr. Chairman, don't we say that only one bottle is equivalent to one bottle?" He said.
In 1997, the meeting of Park Caishu and the father of North Korea's current leader Kim Jong -un, Kim Jong Il, only lasted for 35 minutes.But this is the great success of the Korean intelligence community: Among the known undercover agents, only he can break through the security protection network of the world's most hidden regime and get the opportunity to meet with his mysterious leaders.
Prior to this, Kim Jong Il had always lived deeply, and even his own people only heard his voice once in 1992. At that time, he shouted at the microphone when he reviewed the troops: "Glory is heroicPeople's Army Warrior "/
But Park Caishu was impressed by Kim Jong Il's talk.
"Very smooth -there is no duplication," 70 -year -old Park Caishu said in his conversation with the supreme leader.
In a political scandal in 1998, the identity of Park Caishu and his meeting with Kim Jong Il, who he had from 1994 to 2011, were exposed. He became a famous spy in South Korea -former spy.Today, the former spy has become a cautious but vivid storyteller. This report is written based on his description. These descriptions also inspire a book about his life and a special agent (The SPY GONE NORTH movie.Although some of his stories have been confirmed by officials and colleagues, both North Korea and his former spy institutions have not published official comments on his work.
Park Caishu has visited North Korea a dozen times, so that North Korean officials believe that he can bring them urgent cash, including helping them sell porcelain and other ancient North Korean cultural relics overseas.
He said that every time he went to North Korea, he stacked his clothes and left a few hair in his bag to know if his luggage was searched when he left the hotel.When the search stopped, he knew that he had won the trust of the monitor.
A senior North Korean official pointed at his head with a gun because he refused to cooperate with a plan to let him go to bed with a Korean woman and have children in North Korea. He said in an interview in Qingzhou who lives in the current living.This is one of his several dialogues he held in the New York Times in Qingzhou and Seoul.Park Caishu was told that Kim Jong Il had named it for the upcoming child at that time: "Unity."
"Every time I go to North Korea, I know my life is hanging," Park Caishu said."When the plane takes off from Pyongyang to the air, I will breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, I survive again."
Park Caishu is the son of a peasant family south of Seoul. In 1990, he was recruited by the National Defense Intelligence Command.He began to create a new reputation for himself. This was a carefully planned plan that eventually let him penetrate into North Korea.He borrowed money and invested in the failure real estate transaction, and often conflicted with his superiors.Some criminal records were added to his files.
In 1993 three years later, when the secret nuclear plan of North Korea evolved into an international crisis, the National Security Planning Bureau of the Supreme Intelligence Institution in South Korea opened him.
At that time, his friends and former army colleagues both thought he was an dissatisfied military intelligence official, with high debt and involved in various private companies. He hoped that North Korean spies in South Korea could also know his background.
For agents who explore North Korean information, the famine in the 1990s created a rare opportunity.North Korea's elites went to China for trade and earned urgently needed cash.There, they met with Korean businessmen, some of which were undercover agents. They used commercial transactions to meet with North Korean officials and established an intelligence collection base.
Park Caishu learned that one of North Korea's biggest participants in such transactions was the nephew of Kim Jong -il's brother -in -law Zhang Chengze, which made the first breakthrough. At that time, Zhang Chengze was one of North Korea's most powerful figures.
In order to make the nephew troubles with Chinese creditors, Park Caishu arranged a group of walnuts and pine nuts to be confiscated in a port of South Korea.Subsequently, he gave the nephew 160,000 US dollars to repay the debt. The grateful Zhang family began to connect with Pu Caishu, and the door opened.
One of his new contacts, the North Korean Labor Party Trade Officer Li Zhe (Yin) later introduced him to a senior official of the North Korean Secret Police Department in Beijing.After learning that the security official was about to get married, Park Caishu gave him a pair of expensive watches as a wedding gift.
Such incidents made him believe that in the poor North Korea, money can be said to move elites.
"My task is to go deep inside Pyongyang as much as possible to understand what they are thinking," Park Caishu said."If I have achieved any success, it is because I understand their preferences for money."
As the connections continue to expand, he has attracted more and more attention.No matter how good the disguise of Park Caishu, his contact with North Korea should know that anyone who do business with them will be at least monitored by Korean intelligence agencies.
North Korean officials once showed him the photos of his mother's work in the garden, as well as photos of his two daughters in South Korea.Meaning: Don't betray us, otherwise ...
When Park Caishu met with Kim Jong Il, he had planned a large -profit business transaction for North Korea, including allowing a movie film crew to go to North Korea to shoot Korean TV advertisements.Park Caishu said that Kim Jong Japan himself agreed with this proposal.
Surprisingly, Kim Jong Il also asked Park Caishu to "give him face", because he heard from the assistant that Park Caishu is good at this skill of Faculty in Asia.
But Kim Jong Il still has a more serious arrangement for Park Caishu.
North Korea hopes that he will help to prevent South Korea's long -term opposition leader Kim Dazhong won the 1997 presidential election.Pyongyang hopes that South Korea will be led by an experienced conservative leader.
In China, the intelligence agencies where Park Caishu is located does not want Jin Dazhong to win the election. Kim Da Zhong was a disgusting person who tried to assassinate him.Park Caishu's institutions and North Korea are enemies who do not wear each other with each other, but they have planned defamation activities, aiming to depict Kim Dazhong as a trusted communist.
Park Caishu personally opposes this interference.He has a ventilation to Jin Dazhong's assistantsLet us make them prepare for such conspiracy, and at the same time, North Korea will accept the victory of the opposition.
After the opposition leader won the presidential election, Park Caishu's bosses in the intelligence agency were imprisoned due to illegal intervention in the election.Prior to this, they leaked confidential intelligence reports, which mentioned that an undercover agent code -named "Black Venus" met with Kim Jong -un in Pyongyang.There are enough details, so that reporters can figure out who is "Black Venus".
In 1998, when the Korean media confirmed that Park Caica was "Black Venus", he was going to North Korea.His intelligence agencies paid a prize of $ 224,000 and fired him.
"I don't regret it," Park Caishu said."I can't let the enemy country interfere in our country's elections."
Then he made a second decision.
He contacted North Korean trading officials, Li Zhe, and worked as a freelance of the North Korean project as a freelancer -this time he was a real businessman.In 2005, he and Li Zhe arranged to shoot a Samsung mobile phone advertisement in Shanghai, two of which were from North Korea and South Korea. This is the first time in similar advertisements.
In 2008, with the re -power of conservatives, South Korea's political atmosphere changed, and his old institution grabbed his handle.In 2010, officials of the agency arrested Park Caica, and the crime was illegally contacted by North Korea and shared sensitive military data with them.Park Caishu proposed that everything was not confidential, but he was sentenced to six years alone in prison.
Since its release in 2016, he has not had a formal job.