(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...
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Behind Bolsonaro’s Meeting With CIA Director Gina Haspel
Not every head of state who visits Washington gets to meet with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil, did. From a wire report: Bolsonaro also met with CIA director Gina Haspel at the spy agency’s headquarters in Virginia to convey the importance he places on “fighting...
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South Korea Spy Chief May Soon Visit North Korea
Last week I reported on how South Korean president Moon Jae-In is seeking to mediate between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the wake of their abortive summit meeting in Hanoi. Now we have details about how. According to the Korea Times, Moon is sending Suh Hoon, chief of the National Intelligence...
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South Korea’s National Security Act Goes On Trial
Writing in the Nation, Max Kim explains one of the biggest obstacles to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula: the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and the notorious National Security Act that it enforces. The NIS is the successor to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which played a bloody role in the country’s political life....
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South Korea’s Intelligence Service Has a Different Way of Doing Things
As I follow the Korea denuclearization story in the Korean media, I am finding the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does something remarkably responsible and sane: they provide elected officials with timely intelligence, in a classified and unclassified setting, on a regular basis. When the New York Times published an overhyped story last month that North...