One day in 1997, a "South Korean businessman" named Park Chae-rui was personally received by the supreme leader of the DPRK, during which the North Korean leader first asked in detail about Park's business dealings with the North Korean government, and then asked in detail about the possibility of selling North Korean antiques to South Korea for foreign exchange. However, when the meeting ended and Park Chae-rui returned to his room, the ruthless man pulled out a micro-tape recorder from his urethra and recorded his conversation with the Supreme Leader the whole time, so who is this ruthless man and why is he called the best spy that South Korea has ever seen?
▲Park Chae-rui (first from right)
The protagonist of this article, Park Chae-rui, was born in 1954 in Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, and after graduating from high school, he studied at the Third Non-commissioned Officer School of the Army, and after graduating from military school, he smoothly entered the South Korean Intelligence Command to work, so Park Chae-rui worked diligently and diligently clocked in to 1991, the senior elite of the South Korean Intelligence Command suddenly became a social waste firewood, complaining about South Korean society all day, not staying in the room every day to drink and gamble, running out of money to find colleagues to borrow, borrowing after borrowing and not paying back, Finally, in 1993, the South Korean Intelligence Command removed Park Chae-rui from the army on the grounds of bad credit record and ordered him to retire from the army, and Park Chae-seo, who was hailed as the best spy in Korean history, began his own hidden path. It turned out that Park Chae-rui secretly joined the South Korean Ministry of Security and Enterprise without his family and was ordered by the 203 office, which is responsible for South Korea's infiltration of North Korea.
▲North Korean missiles
At that time, North Korea experienced drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the first North Korean nuclear crisis, foreign aid was almost cut off, Western sanctions followed, coupled with the outbreak of serious natural disasters at home, North Korean executives were eager to earn foreign exchange to alleviate the situation. So in the mid-90s of the last century, the supreme leader of the DPRK officially issued instructions: requiring the DPRK to rely on itself, take the initiative to earn foreign exchange, part of it for its own use, and part of it to the state. At that time, only China could realize North Korea's demand, so Park Chae-rui got on a plane to Beijing, and then Park Chae-rui and advertising producer Park Ki-yong (the dream is to shoot advertisements in North Korea, and Park Chae-rui used him), the investor Jung Jin-ho jointly established a small advertising company called AZA, ostensibly operating a legitimate advertising business, secretly hoping to use foreign exchange as bait to attract the attention of high-level North Korean families, because it was mainly North Korean high-level family members who were responsible for earning foreign exchange at that time. If you can get involved with these people, you will naturally be able to obtain intelligence about North Korea.
▲ Park Chae-rui in film and television dramas
Soon, Park Chae-rui used his status as a Korean to intentionally or unintentionally approach these people and build relationships for himself. But it was not enough to successfully infiltrate North Korea, and soon an opportunity was placed in front of Park Chae-rui, a trading company opened by a North Korean to sell counterfeit goods, and soon the trading company was discovered, the person in charge was detained, and finally Park Chae-rui spent 150,000 US dollars as compensation, and the responsible person was released, and Park Chae-rui naturally did this for his reason, because the person in charge was Jang Song-taek's nephew. After such a toss, Park Cai-rui smoothly contacted Li Zhe, who was in charge of foreign exchange affairs, and then Park Cai-rui put forward a proposal to shoot advertisements in North Korea, after all, advertising filmed in North Korea can bring great profits, and this is also what North Korea needs, and finally with the help of Jang Song-taek's family and Park Cai-rui's lobbying everywhere, Park Cai-rui's AZA company signed a contract worth $4 million with the North Korean Tourism and Tourism Agency, and was allowed to shoot advertisements in Mount Kumgang and other places. In this way, Park Chae-rui finally entered the North Korea of his heart.
▲Signing ceremony between AZA and the Ministry of Tourism of North Korea
Since then, Park Chae-rui has often traveled to North Korea under the guise of shooting advertisements to collect a lot of important intelligence for South Korea, the most important of which is that the number of North Korean nuclear bombs has risen to two. As a South Korean, can get such a high-level intelligence in closed North Korea, Park Chai-rui does have a hand, but these need to pay a price, after all, the North Korean intelligence department is not vegetarian, just when Park Cai-rui first entered North Korea, the other party took out a photo of his mother, the purpose is self-evident, and finally there is no way Park Cai-rui provided some information about South Korea to the North Korean side, and then Park Cai-rui's "advertising road" in North Korea became smooth sailing, It was even personally received by the Supreme Leader.
▲ Kim Dae-jung
However, the good times did not last long, and the 1997 South Korean election kicked off between progressive leader Kim Dae-jung, who advocated reconciliation with North Korea, and Lee Hoe-chang, a conservative leader who advocated a tough line on North Korea. In order to keep the conservatives in power, Blue House Chief Executive Oh Jung-un and chaebols Han Sung-ki and Jang Seok-jung secretly met with Park Chung, counselors of the Asia-Pacific Peace Commission of North Korea, hoping that the other party would make some noise before the election, after which the chaebols would pay a large amount of money, thus completely losing the conciliatory Kim Dae-jung. But I didn't expect this matter to be exposed by the media, this is the famous "North Wind Incident", and then Kim Dae-jung succeeded in running for election with a slight margin with this incident, and after coming to power, Kim Dae-jung began to thoroughly investigate this matter, but unexpectedly it involved some of the same things that the Ministry of Security and Enterprise did during the Park Chung-hee period, so the subject of the investigation was transferred to the Ministry of Security and Enterprise, seeing that the investigation was getting deeper and deeper, under the signal of the Minister of Security and Enterprise, cadre Lee Dae-sung broke a document to the media, which was later the "Lee Dae-sung Document", Li Cairui, who was eventually codenamed Black Gold Star, was also revealed.
▲ The news report at that time was Li Dacheng's document
The reason for this is because the Ministry of Security and Enterprise wants to "lose the car to protect the marshal", and this "car" must be strong enough. In this way, Park Cairui was betrayed by his superiors, so that Park Cairui's infiltration work was completely over, and after returning to South Korea, Park Cairui was fired by the Ministry of Security and Enterprise, and at the same time received a condolence payment of 300 million won, originally Park Cairui could stay in South Korea safely to retire. But when Mr. Lee came to power in 2008, Park was arrested two years later for violating the national security law on the grounds that he was a "double spy" for providing North Korea with South Korean intelligence, even though Park had repeatedly stated that he had done so to gain North Korea's trust, and the information he provided was insignificant. But a South Korean court sentenced Park to six years in prison. In addition, there is also a theory that Park Chae-rui participated in the "North Wind Incident" that leaked the conspiracy of South Korean conservatives, and liquidated it after conservatives came to power in 2008, after all, Park Chae-rui also publicly expressed unacceptability in later interviews that conservatives intended to win the election with North Korea.
▲The Korean movie "Agent" adapted from this
Later, South Koreans made a movie called "Agent" based on Park Chae-rui's experience, and Park Chae-rui has been trying to get his case retried since he was released from prison in 2016, but so far there has been no progress. It is worth mentioning that North Korea did not say anything about this series of events, did not deal with the parties involved, and did not issue a statement, as if it had been expected in advance.
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