Turkey- S.Korean president names new deputy chiefs of spy agency
Date
2/5/2016 12:20:02 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) South KoreanPresident Park Geun-hye named new deputy chiefs Friday of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) the country's spy agency amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Kim Jin-Sub a presidential secretary of the national security office in charge of intelligence affairs was nominated to replace Han Ki-beom the first deputy chief of the NIS overseeing overseas intelligence especially those on theDPRKaffairs. It marked the first replacement of the post since Park took office in February 2013. Chief presidential press secretary Kim Sung-Woo told a press briefing that Kim is a right person to perform tasks as the first deputy chief with his sufficient insights and capability on security at a time when Pyongyang's threats are escalating. The DPRK announced a plan on Tuesday to launch a rocket between Feb. 8 and 25 to put an observation satellite into orbit just a month after its claim on Jan. 6 that it had tested its first H-bomb. South Korea's second NIS deputy chief handling domestic intelligence will be replaced as Choi Yun-Su senior prosecutor of the Busan High Prosecutors' Office in the country's second biggest city. The press secretary said that Choi will perform the second deputy chief's tasks adequately based on his expertise on criminal investigations into industrial secrets and intelligence analysis.
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