Episode 59: Suzy Kim Spy Fabrication Case (수지 김 간첩 조작 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 11, 2026 · 46m

In the first days of January 1987, a thirty-four-year-old Korean woman was strangled in a flat in Hong Kong. Her husband killed her. That part was never really in doubt. What happened next is the reason we're still talking about it nearly forty years later. Her husband flew to Singapore. He tried to defect to North Korea. North Korea turned him away. So he walked into the South Korean embassy instead and told them the opposite story — that North Korean agents had tried to drag him across the border, and that the woman helping them was his own wife. Within days, South Korea's own diplomats in…