PAJU, South Korea — Forty years after South Korea’s spy chief was executed for shooting dead his boss, dictator Park Chung-hee, the assassin’s sister is seeking to clear him of treason, arguing the killing was in the service of the country.
But she is not seeking to overturn his murder conviction or death sentence, is a reflection of how the South still grapples with Park’s complex legacy.
“A person needs to be punished for killing,” Kim Jae-gyu’s grey-haired sister Jung-sook, 81, told AFP.
“But my brother did not kill the president so that he could become president or to commit treason against the state.”
Park took power in a 1961 military coup and established…
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