A taekwondo master who has acknowledged taking part in a failed plot to assassinate a former South Korean president at the direction of North Korea returned home to the South on Monday after decades overseas.
Choi Jung-hwa, however, was expected to be cleared of most of the allegations against him because he voluntarily returned and the statue of limitations on many of them have expired, said senior prosecutor Oh Se-in.
Choi hired two agents to shoot South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during a 1982 visit to Canada, according to Oh Chang-jin, an aide to Choi. The plot, however, was detected and Choi went into hiding in Eastern Europe and North Korea.
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