July 23 (UPI) -- A coalition of South Korean civic groups are suing a pardoned North Korean agent for defamation, after the defendant, Kim Hyon-hui, may have said publicly the families of perished victims were pro-Pyongyang collaborators.
Kim, 56, who confessed to planting a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which exploded mid-air on Nov. 29, 1987, had said in a 2008 letter to Lee Dong-bok, the head of South Korean group North Korea Democratization Forum, the victims' families were trying to overturn the closed case of the flight bombing, Yonhap reported Monday.