Kim Hyong-uk

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.
Kim Hyong-uk
Hangul 김형욱
Hanja 金炯旭
Revised Romanization Gim Hyeong-uk
McCune–Reischauer Kim Hyŏng-uk

Kim Hyong-uk (Hangul: 김형욱, Hanja:金炯旭, January 16, 1925 –c. October 8 1979) was a South Korean solider and politician. Born in Hwanghae province, he left for the South after high school and was a classmate of future President Park Chung-hee at military academy, graduating in 1949. He was an infantry troop commander in the Korean War. He attended the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1955. As colonel, he took part in the May 16 coup in 1961, when he led a group of soldiers to take Prime Minister John M. Chang into custody. He served for two years as Minister for Home Affairs in the junta and then was director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency from March 1963 to October 1969, when he was notorious for his brutality and corruption. After refusing to support Park's bid for a third term, he was replaced as head of the KCIA by Lee Hu-rak. Reportedly, at a meeting with Park, the President asked him, "why don't you take a rest after your long service?" - and on returning to his office, he discovered it had already been cleared out. In 1971, he became a member of the powerless parliament. Kim went into exile in the United States in 1973.

In 22 June 1977, he testified to the Fraser committee about the Koreagate scandal and the activities of Tongsun Park. He also claimed that the Japanese police had had foreknowledge of the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung.[1] Park had offered him $1 million not to testify, which Kim refused. Kim accepted $500,000 not to publish his memoirs, but reneged on the deal and published them in Japan in April 1979. He disappeared in October 1979, after last being seen in a Paris nightclub. A popular rumor is that Kim was smuggled back to Seoul and personally shot by President Park in the basement of the Blue House. This version was shown in part 12 of the North Korean film series Nation and Destiny. His memoirs were published in South Korea in 1985. In February 2005, the Wolgan Chosun published claims that Kim had been lured from New Jersey to Paris by a hired female entertainer and then been murdered by a French criminal syndicate in pay of the South Korean government. In May 2005, a report from the National Intelligence Service's Truth Commission concluded that Kim had been killed on the orders of Kim Jae-kyu, his successor as director of the KCIA.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "EX‐KOREA AIDE SAYS PARK ENVOY TOLD HIM HE SHOULD BE SILENT". The New York Times. 3 July 1977. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 564. ISBN 9780393068498. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Korea Annual 1971. Yonhap News Agency. p. 566. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Halloran, Richard (28 October 1979). "Korea Intelligence: Eyes Seem Everywhere". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Clifford, Mark. Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765601414. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Sang-hun, Choe (5 April 2005). "Korea opens dark chapter of history". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Former Chief of Korea's C.I.A. Kim Hyung Wook". The New York Times. 23 June 1977.
  8. ↑ "Report: South Korea spy chief killed". UPI. 26 May 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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