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as the KCIA. By 1983 the ANSP had gained more control than the KCIA.
Public assemblies were more or less controlled until 1987 by using new laws named, “The Act Concerning Assembly and Demonstration” and “The National Security Act.” The regime’s security forces, which were the Defense Security Command, and the National Combat Police, were used to prohibit mass assemblies. Under the new laws one was required to provide the police advance notice of all demonstrations. Violation of this law could mean a seven year prison sentence.
Non-political or peaceful demonstrations took place without much government interference. However, under President Chun, over five thousand investigations were made and thousands of people were arrested. Security was very tight in certain cities and university campuses. Any citizen was at risk of being questioned and held without due process.
The typical methods to deal with non-approved demonstrations were to surround the crowd using the Combat Police. The Combat Police would encircle the crowd and slowly move in on the group using clubs, water cannons, and tear gas to make mass arrests. Once in jail, questioning by the security services bordered on the line torture.
Security forces detained those accused of breaking the new laws, but also placed people under house arrest. Many elected officials were put under surveillance.
In 1984 South Korea made a bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics, which they won. Oddly enough, while jobs were plentiful, the common people were still discontented. Up until now the people could only vote for those in the National Assembly. The National Assembly members were the ones who in turn elected the President.
In 1987, just one year before the Olympics, the South Korean people finally won the right to have direct elections for the President and National Assembly members. It was believed that this would quell the unrest. However, in 1988, the year of the Olympics, there were over six thousand demonstrations in Korea. They were called rallies because that sounded better than demonstrations.
In 1999, the ANSP was officially renamed the National Intelligence Service (NIS). The NIS is divided into three groups: International affairs, Domestic affairs, and North Korean affairs. Its official mission is as follows:
“Collection, coordination, and distribution of information on the nation's strategy and security.
Maintenance of documents, materials, and facilities related to the nation's classified information.
Investigation of crimes affecting national security, related to laws such as the Military Secrecy Protection Law, the National Security Law.
Investigation of crimes related to the missions of NIS staff.
Planning and coordination of information and classified materials.”
The election of Roh, Moo-hyun as President in 2003 brought more pressure to reform the NIS. Hoping to reform the NIS, President Roh appointed a former human rights attorney as the NIS Director. The anti-communist bureau of the NIS was eliminated. Most surveillance activities were abandoned and transferred to the Police.
Roh is a very liberal President. He continued the existing Sunshine Policy of reunification with North Korea. The National Assembly tried to impeachment him during his first year as President. He was cleared of any wrong doing. Roh planned to create an administrative capital outside of Seoul, but he was overruled by the Korean Supreme Court who advised that the relocation of the capital was unconstitutional.
No one knows why Roh wanted to move the administrative capital one hundred miles from Seoul. People were not happy about that since Seoul had been the capital of Korea for over a thousand years.
That is the history of the Korean National Intelligence Service. Roh is still the President and has one more year remaining on his five-year term.
*****
PRESENT
Public assemblies were more or less controlled until 1987 by using new laws named, “The Act Concerning Assembly and Demonstration” and “The National Security Act.” The regime’s security forces, which were the Defense Security Command, and the National Combat Police, were used to prohibit mass assemblies. Under the new laws one was required to provide the police advance notice of all demonstrations. Violation of this law could mean a seven year prison sentence.
Non-political or peaceful demonstrations took place without much government interference. However, under President Chun, over five thousand investigations were made and thousands of people were arrested. Security was very tight in certain cities and university campuses. Any citizen was at risk of being questioned and held without due process.
The typical methods to deal with non-approved demonstrations were to surround the crowd using the Combat Police. The Combat Police would encircle the crowd and slowly move in on the group using clubs, water cannons, and tear gas to make mass arrests. Once in jail, questioning by the security services bordered on the line torture.
Security forces detained those accused of breaking the new laws, but also placed people under house arrest. Many elected officials were put under surveillance.
In 1984 South Korea made a bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics, which they won. Oddly enough, while jobs were plentiful, the common people were still discontented. Up until now the people could only vote for those in the National Assembly. The National Assembly members were the ones who in turn elected the President.
In 1987, just one year before the Olympics, the South Korean people finally won the right to have direct elections for the President and National Assembly members. It was believed that this would quell the unrest. However, in 1988, the year of the Olympics, there were over six thousand demonstrations in Korea. They were called rallies because that sounded better than demonstrations.
In 1999, the ANSP was officially renamed the National Intelligence Service (NIS). The NIS is divided into three groups: International affairs, Domestic affairs, and North Korean affairs. Its official mission is as follows:
“Collection, coordination, and distribution of information on the nation's strategy and security.
Maintenance of documents, materials, and facilities related to the nation's classified information.
Investigation of crimes affecting national security, related to laws such as the Military Secrecy Protection Law, the National Security Law.
Investigation of crimes related to the missions of NIS staff.
Planning and coordination of information and classified materials.”
The election of Roh, Moo-hyun as President in 2003 brought more pressure to reform the NIS. Hoping to reform the NIS, President Roh appointed a former human rights attorney as the NIS Director. The anti-communist bureau of the NIS was eliminated. Most surveillance activities were abandoned and transferred to the Police.
Roh is a very liberal President. He continued the existing Sunshine Policy of reunification with North Korea. The National Assembly tried to impeachment him during his first year as President. He was cleared of any wrong doing. Roh planned to create an administrative capital outside of Seoul, but he was overruled by the Korean Supreme Court who advised that the relocation of the capital was unconstitutional.
No one knows why Roh wanted to move the administrative capital one hundred miles from Seoul. People were not happy about that since Seoul had been the capital of Korea for over a thousand years.
That is the history of the Korean National Intelligence Service. Roh is still the President and has one more year remaining on his five-year term.
*****
PRESENT
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