There is an old movie in South Korea, called "Bloody September Mountain", the director is Choi Wulong, because of the age, many people may not know him, and his son may be more well-known, that is the famous Korean actor Choi Min-so. The story of "Bloody September Mountain" tells the story of helping South Korea win big and small victories in the Korean Peninsula War under the outstanding performance of female special operator Lee Jung-sook.
Lee Jung-sook has even been compiled into South Korean middle school textbooks and touted as"September Mountain Heroine"In fact, her real identity is a female prisoner who entered the South Korean army by the North Korean mutiny, she was born in a landlord family, her parents doted on her, and her later life was also decent, married to a noble young master who was in the right household. However, in 1945, a drastic change changed the course of her life completely, and it was the Korean Liberation Movement that targeted the landlord family in the land reform, and her parents and husband were unfortunately killed unexpectedly, and she was also imprisoned, which happened to be located in Hwanghae-do.
The time came to October 1950, it was the time when North Korea sent a request for help to China, at this time the war situation on the Korean Peninsula was reversed, South Korea was originally suppressed by North Korean troops, and even North Korea once controlled more than 90% of South Korea's population and land, but the sudden entry of the US military made the balance of the war tilt instantly, and the exaggerated thing is that the United States and South Korea coalition forces directly crossed the 38th parallel all the way, and there is a great momentum to enter the Chinese border. At this time, the Korean People's Army in Hwanghae-do Prison naturally withdrew one after another, while Lee Jung-sook and other prisoners took the opportunity to escape from the prison, and under the organization of Lee Jung-sook, they did not choose to escape from the combat area, but instead formed a guerrilla unit and acted directly to the north to meet the US-ROK coalition forces that invaded Korean land and killed the Korean people.
Lee Jung-sook joined the South Korean forces and was incorporated into Unit 8240. Because of her female identity, Li Zhenshu actually rarely participated in direct battles, she did the most logistics, reconnaissance and other work, especially in reconnaissance, she can also be called a female spy, and the Jiushan guerrillas to which she belonged did play some roles in the war, and Li Zhenshu herself on January 18, 1951, disguised as a peasant woman, looking for a South Korean guerrilla surrounded by the Korean People's Army, and successfully found the place where the guerrillas were surrounded after walking more than 100 miles of mountain roads. At this time, the Korean People's Army was worried that this guerrilla force would resist to the death and cause its own redundancy, so it did not directly encircle and suppress the attack, but this brought an opportunity to Li Zhenshu, and after she found this guerrilla force, she successfully escaped from the encirclement with 89 people through a hidden mountain road.
With the passage of time, the Korean Peninsula war situation after the Chinese volunteers joined the North Korea is no longer in a passive situation, with the five battles before and after, the DPRK gradually regained the territory, and then the two sides entered the defensive phase for more than 2 years, and finally signed a truce.
The end of the war was naturally a reward and punishment, but Lee Jung-sook, a guerrilla member who had made outstanding contributions, did not receive any medals. Such treason"Special Operators"It doesn't seem to be taken seriously by South Korea. In fact, in 2015, South Korea's ** Park Geun-hye issued a subsidy to the members of Unit 8240 who are still alive, about 160,000 won per person, which is only equivalent to more than 900 yuan, and it is a one-time payment, and the number of people who receive this subsidy is more than 600.
Compared to other North Korean traitors, Lee Jung-sook is actually very lucky, he is not only mythologized as a hero of South Korea, but also compiled into textbooks, and also became the heroine of the movie. Under the operation of his son Kim Kwang-in, Lee Jung-sook was posthumously awarded the Order of Loyalty and Martial Arts in 2015, which is second only to the Order of Taiji Martial Arts in South Korea, and it can be said that Lee Jung-sook has received a veritable honor.