Kim Hyon-hui

In an interview with BBC, Kim said that North Korea just pretended to be friendly on the issue of 2018 Winter Olympics, and its priority still is the nuclear program.

Kim has also offered analysis to news organizations about current affairs in North Korea. During the 2013 Korean crisis, Kim suggested on Australian television that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was too young and inexperienced, was "struggling to gain complete control over the military and to win their loyalty." She also commented that he was "using the nuclear program as a bargaining chip for aid, to keep the public behind him."

According to a BBC interview in 2013, her family left behind in North Korea was arrested and sent to a labor camp.

In March 2009, when meeting family members of Yaeko Taguchi, she mentioned that Taguchi may still be alive, and in connection with this she visited Japan in July 2010. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, she donated one million yen ($15,600) to the victims, out of gratitude for the preferential treatment she had received in Japan during her previous visit.

In December 1997, Kim married a former South Korean intelligence agent who also served as her bodyguard, with whom she has two children.

Kim married a former South Korean agent handling her case in 1997 and has two children. She lives in an undisclosed location in South Korea.

Publishers Weekly, in its 1992 review of the book Shoot the Women First by Eileen MacDonald, described Kim as "robot-like" and "wholly submissive to male authority".

For her role in the bombing of KAL 858, Kim was sentenced to death in March 1989. However, South Korean president Roh Tae-woo pardoned her later that year, saying that Kim was merely a brainwashed victim of the real culprit, the North Korean government. She later wrote an autobiography entitled The Tears of My Soul and donated the proceeds to the families of the victims of Flight 858.

In 1987, Kim was given an assignment to plant bombs on KAL 858. She was told that the order came directly from Kim Il-sung, and was handwritten. She was told that if she were successful, she would be able to return and live with her family and would not have to work as an agent afterward. She was once again paired with Kim Seung-il who was recovering from a stomach operation.

She was originally trained as an actress, and starred in North Korea's first Technicolor film. In 1972, Kim was selected to present flowers to the senior South Korean delegate at the North-South talks in Pyongyang. After graduating from high school, she initially enrolled at Kim Il Sung University, before transferring to the Pyongyang Foreign Language College, where she studied Japanese. However, she had barely begun her studies when she was recruited for work.

Kim Hyon-hui (Korean: 김현희 , born 27 January 1962), also known as Ok Hwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people. She was arrested in Bahrain following the bombing and extradited to South Korea. There she was sentenced to death but later pardoned.

Kim was born in Kaesong on 27 January 1962 but her family settled in the country's capital, Pyongyang. Her father was a career diplomat and as a result, the family lived in Cuba for some time. Kim excelled as a student and in after-school activities.