History of Harm

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1979 Agency chief Kim Chae Gyu, right, assassinates South Korean President Park Chung Hee and the chief of the Presidential Security Force, Cha Chi Chol

1987 NIS agents torture and kill student activist Park Chong Chol. An autopsy reveals his windpipe was smashed on the edge of a bathtub

1995—6 Spy-agency director Kwon Young Hae is suspected of siphoning about $155 million from the agency's budget to fund the New Korea Party's presidential-election campaign against challenger Kim Dae Jung

2001—2 Several senior NIS officials receive jail terms for taking bribes from businessmen

2003 Former NIS director Lim Dong Won admits the agency helped transfer $200 million to North Korea before the June 2000 summit between the two Koreas. A special counsel is investigating whether the transfer was illegal