Kim Hyung-wook

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Kim Hyung-wook, August 27, 1968
Korean spelling
Hangeul 김형욱
Hanja 金炯旭
Revised
Romanization 		Gim Hyeong-uk
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kim Hyŏnguk

Kim Hyung-wook (born January 16, 1925 in Sinch'ŏn -gun, Korea ; † October 8, 1979 in a poultry factory four kilometers northwest of Paris , France ) was a South Korean member of parliament.

Life

Kim Hyung-wook went to the military academy with Park Chung-hee and took part in the coup in May 1961 with him . In the Democratic Republican Party (DRP), founded in 1963, Kim Hyung-wook was involved in political fundraising alongside Chang Ki-young, Kim Sung-kon and Lee Hu-rak . General Kim Hyung-wook headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) from 1963 to 1969 . In 1967 the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in the Federal Republic of Germany performed an extraordinary rendition on 17 Koreans . After some of the abductees were sentenced to death and executed, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt called Ambassador Franz Ferring to Bonn for advice . In 1970 Kim Hyung-wook became a Member of Parliament in Gukhoe . In 1973 Kim Hyung-wook left for the USA . On June 22, 1977, Kim Hyung-wook appeared as a witness in a public hearing on the Koreagate before the US Congress and was questioned for several hours. Kim Hyung-wook also addressed the role of the Unification Church in his replies . He said that Moon Sun-myung and Pak Bo-hi were on the payroll of the intelligence agency he previously ran. Kim Hyung-wook wrote his memoirs and sold a copy to Park Chung-hee, who believed he had acquired the copyrights . Kim Hyung-wook had his memoirs published in Japan. Possibly as a result of the copyright dispute, Kim Hyung-wook was kidnapped from Paris and processed into chicken feed in a bone mill .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sŭng-hŭm Kil, Chung-in Moon, Understanding Korean politics: an introduction
  2. ^ Affaires / Koreans: Situation of the K. In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1967 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Diplomacy / kidnapping: possibly dead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1968 ( online ).
  4. ↑ testimony of Kim Hyung-wook, June 22, 1977 in US, Congress, House Committee on International Relations, Investigation of Korean-Amreican Relations, 1977, 39-42, 64-67, 71, 74-75
  5. ↑ Mark Clifford, Troubled tiger: businessmen, bureaucrats, and generals in South Korea
  6. ↑ “김형욱 은 내가 죽였다” ("I killed Kim Hyông-uk") on sisapress.com from April 11, 2005 (Korean).
predecessor Office successor
Kim Jae-choon Head of Gukga Jeongbowon
July 12, 1963 to December 7, 1969 		Kim Kye-won
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Hyung-wook is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Hyung-wook
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinch'ŏn -gun, Korea
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1979
Place of death near Paris , France