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安 斗 熙 an du-hui ahn doo-hee
 an tuhŭi 안두희
ahn doo-hee

ahn doo-hee -lrb- alternative spelling : ahn doo-whi -rrb- -lrb- 1917 , ryongchon county - 23 october 1996 -rrb- carried out the assassination of nationalist korean leader kim gu on june 26 , 1949 .
officially , it is maintained that ahn doo-hee acted alone , although some have theorized that ahn was part of a broader conspiracy .
the existence of a conspiracy , however , is not directly supported by verifiable evidence .
ahn died at the hands of a follower of kim gu in 1996 .
for the assassination , ahn was convicted and sentenced to a term of life in prison ; however , shortly thereafter , his sentence was commuted to a term of 15-years by then newly elected korean president syngman rhee .
at his trial , ahn maintained that he was solely responsible for the assassination .
at the outset of the korean war in 1950 , ahn was released from prison , having served only one year of his 15-year sentence .
upon his release , ahn was re-instated as a military officer .
after serving under rhee during the korean war , ahn was discharged in 1953 , having attained the rank of colonel .
after syngman rhee fled korea in response to the april revolution of 1960 , ahn went into hiding , living under an assumed name .
on april 13 , 1992 , ahn 's alleged confession was published by korean newspaper dongah ilbo .
in the alleged confession , ahn claimed that the assassination of gu had been ordered by kim chang-ryong , who served as the head of national security under the rhee administration .
after many years of living as an exile in his native country , and having never served the remainder of his prison sentence , ahn was assassinated by a follower of kim gu in october 1996 .
the weapon used to kill ahn was a wooden club inscribed with the words , `` justice stick '' .
ahn was 79-years old at the time .
in 2001 , declassified united states military documents dating from 1949 revealed that ahn had been an informant and , later , an agent , for the u.s. counter-intelligence corps -lrb- us cic -rrb- in korea .
those documents also revealed that ahn was a member of the extremist nationalist group known as the white clothes party -lrb- `` baikyi-sa '' in korean -rrb- .
