Former S. Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil dies
  • 6 years ago
Former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil has died at the age of 92.
Yonhap News Agency reports that Kim died at a hospital in Seoul at 8:15AM, Korea time on Saturday.
He was the founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency -- now the National Intelligence Service -- and served as South Korea's prime minister from 1971 to 1975,... and again from 1998 to 2000.
He was the last of the three Kims who were politcal heavyweights in the 1980s and 90s-- the other Kims being Former Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam .
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