Kerry Might Reconsider US Forces Korea Reductions (if elected president): Sandy Berger

Digital Chosunilbo ^ | 9/23/04

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MAY 2004 : (AFTER MEETING WITH JOHN KERRY FUNDRAISERS INCLUDING RICK YI, SOUTH KOREAN INTELLIGENCE AGENT CHUNG BYUNG-MAN IS SENT BACK TO SOUTH KOREA)A South Korean man who met with Sen. John Kerry's fund-raisers to discuss creating a new political group for Korean-Americans was an intelligence agent for his country, raising concerns among some U.S. officials that either he or his government may have tried to influence this fall's election.
    South Korean officials and U.S. officials said that Chung Byung-man, a consular officer in Los Angeles, actually worked for South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
 A spokesman for the South Korean Consulate said Mr. Chung was sent home in May amid "speculation" he became involved with the Kerry campaign and Democratic Party through contacts with fund-raiser Rick Yi and that his identity couldn't be discussed further. ...  
  Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton said the Massachusetts senator's campaign did not know Mr. Chung was an intelligence agent or that Mr. Yi, one of the campaign's key fund-raisers in the Asian-American community, was meeting with him until it was brought to light.   
 A South Korean government official in Seoul and two longtime U.S. officials in Washington, both speaking on the condition of anonymity because Mr. Chung's intelligence work is classified, told the Associated Press that Mr. Chung worked for South Korea's NIS, the country's CIA equivalent.   
  The U.S. officials said Mr. Chung had registered with the Justice Department as a friendly foreign intelligence agent on U.S. soil, and that his activities had raised concern he or his government had tried to influence the fall presidential election through "extracurricular activities."    
 The FBI has not begun a formal counterintelligence investigation because Mr. Chung left the United States in May, the officials said. ---- "Korean met Kerry fund-raisers," Washington Times, Wednesday, September 22, 2004, http:/www.washtimes.com/national/20040921-105146-8483r.htm via http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1223245/posts

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Fedora]

If Kerry was elected, he would probably send troops to fight *for* North Korea.

We need to keep an eye on Berger. There's an even bigger scandal there than Rathergate.

[ApesForEvolution]

When is Berger going to be indicted? I see he's spouting off his World Communist fat mouth again...the Left is pure, unadulterated, evil. Elitists destroying America, the last and only Great Republic...for their personal power. There's a word for this...

[NYCVirago]

Unbelievable that he's still shilling for Kerry.