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...public." In the week before his death, prosecutors grilled Chung three times?in sessions lasting up to 12 hours?over another issue altogether: a $13 million slush fund paid for by the Hyundai group that prosecutors allege was set up by a top aide to former President Kim Dae Jung. After his suicide, prosecutors said Chung might have actually channeled $21 million into the fund. Former President Kim isn't currently under investigation for the slush fund or the summit pay-offs to North Korea; with Chung's death, he might never be. At a wake for Chung, a teary...
...allies for a tougher line, though, it was wrong. The Bush team said the uranium program was proof that Pyongyang could not be trusted, but critics argued that Washington's hard line had driven the North to pursue enrichment. South Korea's President at the time, Kim Dae Jung, who had pursued a "sunshine" policy toward North Korea, urged caution and more direct talks between the North and the U.S. Pyongyang's longtime protector, China, refused to support U.N. sanctions against the North despite its concerns about a nuclear-arms race on the peninsula...
...CHARGED. PARK JIE WON and LIM DONG WON, former South Korean government officials, and CHUNG MONG HUN, chairman of Hyundai Asan, with violations in connection with the 2000 summit between the two Koreas; in Seoul. Park (pictured), a top aide to Kim Dae Jung, then South Korea's President, was charged with having abused his authority. Chung and Lim, another Kim aide, were charged with having violated foreign-currency regulations. The Hyundai Group sent $500 million to North Korea months before the historic summit, the first since the Korean War ended in 1953. An investigation found that $100 million...
...predecessor, Kim Dae Jung?who said South Korean agents tried to kill him three times in his days as a democratic activist?also vowed to clean up the agency. But by the end of Kim's presidential term in February, he was embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing...
...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...