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Kim Jaekyu
Kim Jaekyu | |
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Korean Name | |
Revised Romanization | Gim Jae-gyu |
McCune-Reischauer | Kim Chae-kyu |
Hangul | 김재규 |
Hanja | 金載圭 |
Kim Jaekyu (1926–May 24, 1980) was a South Korean military and intelligence officer.
He was most famous for, while Director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, assassinating South Korean President Park Chunghee, who had been one of his closest friends for a long time, on October 26, 1979. He was subsequently executed.
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