Video SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREAN SPY IS SHOT DEAD

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A North Korean spy has been shot dead after eluding a massive manhunt for three days.


He was killed when he tried to break through a cordon of 20,000 commandos on a thickly wooded mountain in South Korea.


Park Kwang Nam had been on the run since Tuesday.


He had escaped a shoot out which killed a South Korean police officer, wounded two others and left his compatriot, Kim Do Shik, in custody.


Friday, trapped on remote Soksong Mountain and wounded in the leg, he made a run for it.


Commandos spotted him on a mountain ridge 100 yards (30m) from the nearest village. When Park realized he had been seen, he turned back up the mountain, but didn't get far. He was shot three times in the head and legs.


Carried down to a military ambulance - his hands tied behind his back - Park died at a military hospital.


Police say he was carrying a Belgian-made pistol with a silencer, South Korean and U-S currency and a fake identification card.


The agents were first spotted on Tuesday, when South Korean security agents tried to arrest two men seen near an abandoned cottage.


Kim was taken into custody, but Park escaped the gunfight.


Kim told police they had been sent into South Korea two months ago to take back a North Korean spy planted 10 years ago. It was unclear whether Kim divulged the spy's identity.


The confession led police to a radio transmitter and code sheets hidden in a park south of Seoul.


The last known deep penetration of North Korean spies was in 1984, when an agent killed or injured three South Koreans before committing suicide in Taegu, 180 miles south of Seoul.


An infiltrator was killed near the border earlier this month and officials say they believe two others fled back home.


North Korea called that incident a fabrication and has made no comment on the latest shoot outs.




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