When Pak Chung Sun met her former boyfriend in Seoul in January, he was no longer the reticent, tender-hearted gentleman with whom she had lived a quarter of a century ago in Tokyo.
Shuffling along, the white-haired Shin Gwan Su, 70, said everything he had done was for the sake of his mother country, North Korea. He raged at her for coming to visit him, shouting that 63-year-old Pak was a "reactionary element."
Shin was released from a South Korean prison in December, thanks to Seoul's "millennium amnesty," after serving 15 years for spying for Pyongyang. It was their first meeting in 17 years.