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
People's Republic of Bulgaria his leg with the tip of an umbrella. Markov died shortly afterwards of ricin poisoning. He was the victim of the Bulgarian secret service, as confirmed by KGB documents revealing that they had jointly planned the operation with Bulgaria. The Bulgarian People's Army sided with the Soviet Union and the Afghan communists during the Soviet–Afghan War in Afghanistan fighting the jihadist guerrillas from 1982 until its withdrawal in 1989. By the 1980s, the conservatives controlled the government. Some social and cultural liberalization and progress was led by Lyudmila Zhivkova, Todor's daughter, who became a source of strong disapproval and annoyance