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World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Panel Finds Ex-President Endorsed KidnappingA government panel said the former president of South Korea gave a tacit nod to a secret operation in 1993 to kidnap Kim Dae-jung, then a dissident leader who later became the first opposition-backed president and a Nobel peace laureate. The fact-finding panel of the National Intelligence Service also said it could not rule out the possibility that the former president, Park Chung-hee, may have directly ordered the kidnapping of Mr. Kim. South Korean intelligence agents kidnapped Mr. Kim from a Tokyo hotel in August 1973, just days before he was to start a coalition of Japan-based South Korean organizations to work for their country’s democratization. The panel did not draw a clear conclusion on whether the kidnapping was ultimately aimed at killing Mr. Kim, who said his abductors nearly dumped him from a ship at sea a few days after his capture, but stopped when a United States military helicopter made a low pass over the vessel. Mr. Park died in 1979. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationGarry Kasparov held in anti-Putin protest...As French Strikes Grow, Sarkozy Breaks Silence... Political Heir Is Less Rosy Than Putin on the State of Russia... Convicted Adulterer Stoned to Death in Iran... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Panel Finds Ex-President Endorsed Kidnapping |
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