On 26 October 1979, Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency safe house near the Blue House presidential compound
Park Chung Hee Presidential Portrait
Park with future President Kim Young-sam in 1975
The Blue House in 2007
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Kim Jae-gyu
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Kim Jae-gyu was a South Korean politician, army lieutenant general and director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He assassinated South Korean President Park Chung Hee on October 26, 1979, an
Assassination of Park Chung Hee
…South Korea. It was the first assassination of a head of state on the Korean peninsula in 605 years since the assassination of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Kim Jae-gyu, the then director of the KCIA, was responsible for the assassination. Park was shot in the chest and the head. The head of the presidential security…
Kim in Taiwan, 1968