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...chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Vroooom | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...policy of engagement with the North. With Ko at the helm, "the agency will be pro-North Korean," fumes Chung Hyung Keun, a conservative lawmaker and former spy catcher. Chung defends some of the NIS abuses, saying that too much focus on them has made martyrs of men like Kim Nak Joong, who Chung says was indeed a spy and accepted money from North Koreans. Adds Lee Dong Bok, a former intelligence official: "The agency is our last bulwark against North Korean aggression. It must be viewed by North Korea as a foe to be reckoned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning House | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning House | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History of Harm | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History of Harm | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

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