A Korean spy changes her way of life. I would go into detail, but it wont do the book justice.

I have already recommended this book to my soul-mate Sehar

This is a moving account of a North Korean terrorist who was responsible for bombing a KAL airliner in the Bay of Bengal in 1987. The story tells of her childhood and progression through the North Korean Communiist party. She describes her training as a agent and spy.

Following the bombing and after her capture, Kim struggles with the differences between what she was taught and the "evidence" she found in South Korea. She came to the conclusion that all she had been told were lies and with this realization, she became open to life.

Kim read the Bible for the first time while she was a prison in South Korea. During this time she realized that she could receive forgiveness for the murders of the passengers on the KAL flight.

She went on national TV to ask forgiveness of the families of the victums and to confess Christ as her Lord. Under a death sentence, she faced it with courage until the South Korean government commuted the death sentence to life.

She now travels telling her story of God's grace and forgiveness.

Modern Korean history has often been looked upon as a long, dark chapter with the darkness eminating from Japan. This has been increasingly the view put forth in Korean education and scholarship the further Japan's rule of the peninsula fades from actual memory. Nationalism was used in post-war Korea as a useful and powerful tool to rebuild the country, and now is perhaps having the exact opposite effect: leding to many blind spots in terms of what the Japanese reign of Korea actually meant to the country, even on an academic level.

This book takes the first steps towards pulling away the entrappings of nationalism from historical inturpretation, critically examining what exactly it was the Japanese were doing in Korea from a more objective stance.

Research of this kind was too long in the coming, and it is hoped that this will not be the last to analyze an all too often misunderstood (if realized at all) part of Korean, Japanese, and East Asian history.

Hyun Hee Kim's training as a paramilitary agent reads like a spy novel, and if true, provides an interesting view into the Orwellian world of North Korea.

Her training in sabotage, foreign language, and intelligence tradecraft are detailed, as is her deprogramming in South Korea after she was caught blowing up a civilian airliner in the 1980s.

Some have speculated as to how reliable her account is, but I found myself not caring about this question, though it's an important one. The book is an exciting and quick read that will keep you engaged until the end.