In November 1987, while travelling under a fake Japanese passport, the beautiful Kim and another North Korean agent boarded Korean Air Flight 858 in Baghdad, placed a suitcase bomb in a locker, and escaped the plane in Abu Dhabi during a stopover.
Sentenced to death by a South Korean court in 1989, Kim was pardoned by President Roh Tae-Woo, citing that she was merely a brainwashed puppet of the North Korean regime.
Kim wrote an autobiography called The Tears of My Soul -- proceeds of which were donated to the families of the victims of Flight 858.
