National Intelligence Service

The agency, renamed the National Intelligence Service in 1999, collects and coordinates national security intelligence. The Defense Security Command of the Ministry of National Defense and the National Intelligence Service are responsible for the collection of national security intelligence, particularly with regard to the threat from North Korea. The…

…Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA; now the National Intelligence Service) who, on October 26, 1979, assassinated the South Korean president, Park Chung Hee.

…are the responsibility of the National Intelligence Service, formerly called (1981–99) the Agency for National Security Planning and (1961–81) the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Military intelligence is handled by the Defense Security Command. The Korean National Police Agency combines standard police duties with responsibility for counteracting communist infiltration and controlling…