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A former agent who quit the National Intelligence Service in 2000 after exposing illegal activities by the spy agency is to shed light on suspicions of NIS lobbying for former president Kim Dae-jung to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. The press conference will be held on Saturday in Washington D.C., when Kim Ki-sam visits to participate in the North Korea Freedom Week, he told the Chosun Ilbo by phone Tuesday.
Kim, who was recently granted political asylum in the U.S., said the Kim Dae-jung administration through the NIS funneled several hundred million dollars to North Korea to lay the groundwork for Kim Dae-jung to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The agent said the efforts paid off, but the fact that national policies were ¡°devised and implemented for the sake of one person¡¯s glory should be put to the judgment of history.¡± Because it was an issue with dramatic implications for Korean diplomacy, Kim said he hoped the Korean government will thoroughly investigate the case.
Kim has been living in the U.S. since disclosing dubious activities by the intelligence agency in 2000. He applied for asylum in December 2003, which was granted by a federal court last week. In 2005, Kim shocked Korean society again by divulging that the NIS¡¯ precursor, the Agency for National Security Planning, under the Kim Young-sam administration in the early 1990s was engaged in illicit wiretapping of mobile phones of influential figures.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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