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Former South Korean spy master Lee Hu-rak dies

South Korea Obit Ex Spy Chief

While serving as Park's top intelligence officer, Lee traveled to Pyongyang in 1972, met then-leader Kim Il Sung - the father of current leader Kim Jong Il - and helped broker a joint statement in which the two Koreas agreed to work toward peacefully... Full Article at The Bellingham Herald

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