Former CIA Korea Mission (KMC) center chief Andrew Kim, the organizer of the Singapore-North Korea summit, confirmed on the 20th as a CIA-led project.
During a webinar videoconference at Harvard University's Belper Center on this day, KMC center chief Kim said that the June 2018 US-North Korea summit in Singapore was "a project led by the intelligence authorities," and "reflected the intentions of North Korea." The channel has existed since before, and North Korea started using it,” the Voice of the United States (VOA) reported on the 22nd.
After working at the CIA for 27 years, he became the head of the KMC center led by the first CIA director Pompeo in the Trump administration, accompanied the Secretary of State Pompeo four times, met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and entered the Blue House several times.
"The North Koreans wanted to approach the United States very quietly, unknowingly, and cautiously," said former center chief Kim at the meeting. "That kind of contact is handled by security agencies in North Korea."
In 2017, when the US-North Korea conflict was intensifying, former center chief Kim is known to have contacted the North Korean side in a third country and conducted a secret visit to North Korea right after Pompeo took office.
“The CIA has been involved since the early days of US-North Korea diplomacy, and it has provided a lot of great opportunities for intelligence personnel to evaluate the analysis targets.” “The Obama administration (Democratic Party) implemented a'strategic patience' policy. There was an information gap for eight years,” he said in the Democratic Party's policy toward North Korea, revealing the alienation of intelligence agencies.
"The sharing of information on North Korea between the two countries takes place on two different levels of intelligence cooperation," said Jeon Kim, the chief of the US-North Korea intelligence agency. "Technical and tactical information sharing on North Korea is the commander of the ROK-U.S. CFC. The four-star general of the US Army and the four-star general of the South Korean army, the deputy commander, will closely share the obtained information on North Korea.
On the 13th, the director of the US Intelligence Agency (DNI) revealed a visit to the DMZ, which relies on the Trump-based CIA work line, KMC. Please refer to the article blog of the 14th month)
After a visit to JSA in the DMZ, Director Haynes met with the head of the intelligence headquarters (military lieutenant general) at a joint camp in the Ministry of National Defense. Had.
At a press conference on the 3rd, US Secretary of State Blincoln said, “I hope to take an opportunity to see if there is an opportunity for North Korea to get involved diplomatically and if there is a way toward the goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. I think he has a very clear policy focused on diplomacy. On this basis, I think it is up to North Korea to decide whether or not to participate.” On the 10th, South Korean media announced the transition to diplomacy led by the State Department at the lead of the intelligence agency. The notification was confirmed.
In the early stages of the Moon Jae-in administration, National Intelligence Service Chief Seo Hoon (now Chief of Security Office) and Security Officer Eui-yong Jeong(Minister of Foreign Affairs), who cooperated with the KMC, met Kim Jong-un on a visit to Pyongyang on March 5, 2018. On March 8, President Trump said, "Wait for the opposition of the staff," and said, "Please let the representatives of Korea directly announce today's discussions in the name of the Korean representatives here at the White House." However, the sanctions will continue until an agreement is reached. The meeting is actually being planned." (Refer to Kim Jong-chan's security economy blog on March 9, 2018)
At a joint press conference with President Moon Jae-in on the 21st, US President Biden (Democratic Party) said, "What I will not do is to do what was done just before." "The Trump administration expressed opposition to the'top-down' of direct transactions between the Trump administration's intelligence agency and the summit.
Chief Kim Jeon said that the CIA has been involved since the early days of the Trump administration's US-North Korea diplomacy, and intelligence agents "provided a great deal of great opportunities" in evaluating the analysis targets. "High-ranking officials such as the President and the Secretary of State Rather than trusting information analysis, they began to have their own views on the North Korean high-ranking officials.”
“After the President and the Secretary of State, the most important customers of CIA information, met with Kim Jong-un in person, they began to directly evaluate'mysterious people', including Kim Young-cheol, then Vice-Chairman of the Labor Party. "I don't know why I use such unpleasant language when discussing important matters," and expressed it as "horrible and upset," the VOA reported on the day.
The public remarks of former center chief Kim on the 20th seem to be directly related to what President Moon asked for a “Singapore succession” to the Vinedon administration in a speech to the 4th anniversary of his reign prior to the White House-Korea summit on the 21st.
The public remarks of former center chief Kim on the 20th seem to be directly related to what President Moon asked for a “Singapore succession” to the Vinedon administration in a speech to the 4th anniversary of his reign prior to the White House-Korea summit on the 21st.
After the breakdown between North Korea and the United States in Hanoi, last year, North Korean vice president Kim Yeo-jeong criticized President Moon as a sequel to the departure of the CIA project.
At this meeting, former center chief Kim praised “the sharing between the two countries' intelligence agencies” as “very well operated and very close”. After the Republican government, the Democratic Clinton appeared, and in the process of reforming the CIA, the conflict with the support of the pro-Republican Party of the Kim Young-sam administration in 1996 leads to the Gangneung submarine incident.
Kim's remarks on this day seem to have responded to the leadership of the State Department after the CIA was pushed back in North Korea policy.