The claims came ahead of the publication on Tuesday of The Great Successor, a portrait of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield, a Washington Post reporter, that says the deceased Kim brother was an informant for the CIA. The Wall Street Journal on Monday also said he had been a CIA source. Source: Kim Jong...
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Richard Holbrooke’s Empty Legacy for 2020 Democrats
It all began so promisingly. Inspired by the idealism of President John F. Kennedy, young Richard Holbrooke, a gangly 21-year-old graduate of Brown, joined the Foreign Service in 1962. The State Department assigned him to the rural southern tip of Vietnam. In a region where the South Vietnamese army and its American advisers claimed to...
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China’s All-Seeing Spy Agency
From Top World Intelligence Agencies MSS is responsible for China’s foreign intelligence and counterintelligence mission. Despite reports of internal turmoil, the Chinese intelligence has had numerous successes. In the field of economic espionage, the FBI considers China the biggest threat to the United States. In December 2018 U.S. prosecutors charged two MSS agents for their role...
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Why to Be Wary of Reporting on North Korea
Shut out of North Korea, many news organizations want to believe the worst about the country ruled by Kim Jong-un. Last week, for example, Chosun Ilbo, a conservative South Korean daily, reported that Kim had ordered the execution of former nuclear envoy Kim Hyok-chol, and imprisoned former spymaster, Kim Yong-chol. The alleged reason: the failure...
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Denuclearization: Role of South Korea’s NIS
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) The NIS has played an important role in assessing the state of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and supporting President Moon Jae-in’s campaign to coax North Korea and the United States to reach an agreement to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end the Korean war. The agency has also been embroiled in...