Person1926 – 2018

Kim Jong-pil

Politician who took part in the 16 May coup, headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, served as prime minister and joined the 1990 three-party merger

He staged the May 16 Military Coup with Park Chung-hee, became the first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and led the founding of the Democratic Republican Party. During the Korea–Japan talks he and Japanese Foreign Minister Ōhira reached the 1962 'Kim–Ōhira memo' on the claims issue. He served as prime minister from 1971. In 1990 he led the New Democratic Republican Party into the Three-Party Merger. He founded the United Liberal Democrats in 1995 and, allying with Kim Dae-jung in 1997, became prime minister under Kim Dae-jung.

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1990Three-Party Mergerleader
Facing an opposition-controlled National Assembly, the ruling Democratic Justice Party merged with the Reunification Democratic Party and the New Democratic Republican Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party.

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