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Show Al4 The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD August 24, 2003 st nday, Korea’s last communist guerrilla remains defiant and in “the true spirit of comradeship.” The following November, during a foray into a village, a peasant pressed analarm, alert Peasant “partisan”: Now pesant “partisans” who fought | : | il | (0, sne foug it until the her capture 40 years ago, and For Chung, the war never ended. gled to free the fatherland from the Americans,” she says at the hospital in Incheon, Seoul, where she lives Assocutted Press South long after the war. changed. Chung fled, too, and found her husband, but married couples were not allowed to fight in the same unit. She last saw her hus band in January1952 sitting be in unification warrior who strug By SANG-HUN Cot INCHEON, Seoul government “All my life, | have been a still despises America The pro-U.S. Korea (hung Soon-duk, the last com munist guerrilla to be caught in South Korea, Jaments her pathetic mess.” She lost) her ight leg toa wound 40 years ago nd her left side is paralyzed froma stroke. She is hospitalized ind needs a wheelchair to get wround tion warrior,” the 70-year-old woman brims with bravado. She belts out old rebel songs, pump ing herarm the only limb she canuse to the beat “Comrades, shoulder your ri fles. It’s time for battle. Blizzards hit hard, but our hearts are boil ing with hot blood We have orders, comrades, orders to earch for the enemies Her life on the run ended ina hootout with police in the rug ed Chiri Mountains on Nov. 12, 1963 a decade after the Korean Var ended. “Disoriented com junist bandit caught!” read a eadline at the time With her arrest, South Korea finally declared an end to drawn-out operations against fore a bonfire in a snow-covered field. She heard later that he died in battle. As the war dragged on, she learned to read and write, worked as a cook and nurse and was promoted to deputy platoon leader, raiding police stations and ambushing South Korean police rangers, called “dogs” by of Released from prison in 1985, Chung was a disabled outcast, disowned by her family for her tainted past. Police followedher, and she held only menial jobs. She associated with former rebels, but in 2000 the last of-her innocent villagers. regrets.” That | December, have no Chung’s other comrade, Lee Eung-jo, 53, was wounded as police tracked the fugitives. Chung says she was unable to carry him and fin ished him off at his request the rebels. comrades were allowed to go to North Korea, where they got a hero's welcome Aa Chung was barred from join Yet when she recalls her days in “anti American unifica west ing two policemenlying in wait. Lee Hong-yi was killed and Chung was shot in her right thigh. “Even bleeding, she was crawling to her carbine, 1 quickly overpowered her,” says Park Ki-duk, one of the policemen who shot Chung. “She cursed us endlessly, calling all kinds of names and demanding that she be killed. Later I gave her some milk, and she threwit away. She was onetough broad. It's scary what communismdoes to an ignorant woman.” “I shot the villager in the leg We went on to kill his wife and his brother and his brother's wife. We burned down. their homes,” Chung recalls. “They were pawnsof American imperi alists trying to turn in fellow compatriots. | have neverkilled By 1955, most of the Chiri Mountain guerrillas had been killed or surrendered, but Chung and others fought on even though they had no communica tion with North Korea. Police hunted them but also distributed leaflets promising ing them because South Korea returned only “unconverted” Chung Soon-duk, 70, wasthelast communist guerilla to be captured guerrillas. Faced with miserable in South Korea. Chung, who prison conditions, Chung had signed a letter disavowing com followed her husband into armed conflict, held out in mountainous leniency if they gave up. Chung’s munism in hopes ofgetting bet terrain until she was shot and lost parents, coerced by police, roamed the hills pleading through a loudspeaker: “Soon duk, please come down the hill and surrender!” Chung’s unit dwindled to herself and two men, but they continued to elude capture. According to police records, Chung and one of her comrades, Lee Hong-yi, were scrounging for food in October 1962 and got into a scuffle with a villager who tried to snatch Lee’s loaded carbine. ter medical care and a reduced sentence. She now regrets signing the paper. All she has left are her political beliefs and hatred of Americans. She calls reports of hardships in North Korea exaggerations and justifies the North’s suspected development of nuclear weapons as defensive. She blamesthe divisionofthe Korean Peninsula on the U.S. troops who occupied the southern half as the Soviets took over the north to disarm Japanese colonialists at the end of World her leg during capturein 1963. War II. Chung’s saga began shortly after she married at 16, when North Korea invaded the South in June 1950. Her peasant hus band, Sung Suk-jo, collaborated with North Korean troops who promised “liberation” from landlords. 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