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 tired to snatch Lee's loaded carbine.
"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 recalled. "They were pawns of American imperialists trying to turn in fellow compatriots. I have never killed innocent villagers. I have no regrets."
That December, Chung's other comrade Lee Eung-jo, then 53, was wounded as police tracked the fugitives. Chung said she was unable to carry him and finished him off -- at his request and in "the true spirit of comradeship."
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