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The NIS is to be reformed after the Choi scandal

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Career diplomat Kim Kyou-hyun sets about reforming South Korea's top intelligence service

President Yoon Seok-youl, who wants to get the intelligence services back to work in the service of the country's foreign policy priorities - the United States, China and North Korea, is counting on the new head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Kim Kyou-hyun, a civil servant who has a close understanding of these three key policy areas.

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South Korean President Yoon Seok-youl (left) and National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Kim Kyou-hyun.

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