How South Korea’s sole armistice delegate became a hero in North Korea

NK News – North Korea News · Jul 27, 2026

For generations of North Koreans, Choe Tok Sin was not merely a former South Korean general who defected to Pyongyang: He was a familiar figure from one of the country’s best-known propaganda film series, a onetime enemy commander recast as a patriot who ultimately found his way back to Kim Il Sung. Yet decades earlier, […]