[Lee Kyong-hee] North Korean nuclear arms: A long, tangled history

The night of July 7, 1994. Three helicopters took off from Pyongyang, flying through a torrential downpour to Kim Il-sung’s villa in the Myohyang Mountains some 160 kilometers northeastward. US military intelligence intercepted a terse message from the site: “The doctors are not here yet.” Later accounts claim that Kim felt sick with a sudden heart attack, doctors were dispatched, two helicopters crashed in the storm, and with no medical help arriving in time, the man who founded and ruled North

By The Korea Herald