Unsung Heroes - Characters

Characters

  • Yu Rim (Kim Ryong-lin): A former guard in an Imperial Japanese Army Prisoner-of-war camp and later a graduate of Cambridge University, he was recruited by North Korean intelligence while working as a reporter in Istanbul. He is sent to Seoul to gather intelligence on United States forces there.
  • Kim Soon-hee (Kim Jung-hwa): Yu's college sweetheart, now in a counter intelligence agent under Colonel Klaus. During the North Korean occupation of Seoul, she saved the life of an American agent who had been left behind, for which she was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps by Klaus.
  • Park-mu (Jung Woon-mo): Chief press officer for the Republic of Korea Army and a friend of Yu-rim's from Cambridge.
  • Colonel Claus : Member of the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps, and Yu's main adversary. The actor playing the part is credited as Son Dae-won : according to Charles Robert Jenkins, he was actually "an Italian vice dean of the music college in Pyongyang".
  • Captain Martin (Yun Chan): Member of the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps and an aide to Colonel Klaus.
  • Dr. Kelton (Charles Robert Jenkins): The mastermind behind the Korean War.
  • Janet O'Neill (Shu Ok-soon): The wife of Dr. Kelton, her cousin was a British soldier whose life was saved by Yu when interned in a prisoner-of-war camp. Though the character is supposed to be British, she was played by a Eurasian actress of mixed Korean/Russian descent, a common practise in North Korean cinema.
  • Shark (Kim Duk-sam): a corrupt agent in the Counter Intelligence Corp, who sells information to rival South Korean generals jockeying for power.
  • Lee Jin-yong: Kim Yun-hong
  • Wang Soong: Rho Jung-won A reporter from Taiwan, and son of the secretary of Chiang Kai-shek.
  • Knife: Kang Keum-bok
  • Seul-hwa: Park Sub
  • Carl, U.S. secret police captain: Larry Allen Abshier
  • Lewis, British Army lieutenant (Jerry Wayne Parrish): An Irish British army officer, who becomes a Communist and Yu's assistant with Yu's help.
  • Arthur, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel : James Joseph Dresnok. Appears only in Episode 14.
  • Interpreters: Kim Chang-soo, Paik Kyung-a

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