Park Sang-hak years in prison. He was also ordered to pay 11.75 million Won in fines (about $10,000 USD ), which was the same amount he had been promised for assassinating Park. "The Independent" also pointed out that the assassination plot was “reminiscent of the Cold War killing of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, who was stabbed with a ricin-tipped umbrella in London in 1978.” In May 2013, Park was presented with the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent by the Human Rights Foundation. Park Sang-hak Park Sang-hak is a North Korean democracy activist and is the chairman of Fighters for a Free
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