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found out the KCIA was involved and intervened with the South Korean government. He mobilized senior embassy personnel to go around Seoul and speak to prominent Koreans who may have an idea on what happened to Kim Dae-jung without waiting for authorization from Washington, D.C., since doing so could
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Around 11:00 am of August 8, 1973, Kim was attending a meeting with the leader of the Democratic Unification Party held in the Room 2211 of the Hotel Grand Palace in Tokyo. At around 1:19 pm, Kim was abducted by a group of unidentified men as he walked out of the room after the meeting. The entire
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Kim's hands and feet were tied with weights while aboard the boat heading toward Korea, indicating that the kidnappers had intended to drown him by throwing him into the
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in October 1972 while seeking medical treatment. With widespread allegations of corruption and manipulation of the results, Park turned his regime into a
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1973 kidnapping of dissident leader Kim Dae-jung by the South Korean CIA in Tokyo, Japan
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just when the kidnappers brought Kim on the deck. Subsequently, Kim was released in
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rest of the floor of that hotel was rumored to have been rented out by a notorious
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movement for democracy in South Korea, following Seoul's declaration of the
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According to some reports, Kim was only saved when U.S. Ambassador
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On October 24, 2007, following an internal inquiry, South Korea's
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Believing the accident to be an attempt on his life, Kim fled to
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from a conference of Korean anti-authoritarian reformers in
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began a pursuit of the kidnappers' boat, and they fired an
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get Kim killed before Habib was allowed to intervene.
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