Our Monday read: now, you can walk the path that the North Korean terrorists took to infiltrate Seoul 52 years ago.
https://twitter.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1330869847069102083
In Jan 1968, 31 NK guerrillas used the Bugak-san Mountain hiking path behind the Blue House to approach the presidential residence and assassinate then-South Korean president Park Chung-hee. They were stopped less than a mile away from the Blue House. Firefight ensued.
29 guerrillas died, one escaped, and one - man named Kim Shin-jo - was captured. Since then, the hiking path behind the Blue House, known as the "Kim Shin-jo Route" was closed to the public.
President Moon Jae-in had promised to re-open the path to make the Blue House more accessible to the public. An avid trekker who climbed Mt. Everest, Moon personally opened the locked gate and led the inaugural hike of the Kim Shin-jo Route. 
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