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Head of Korea's spy agency named new presidential chief of staff
President Park's chief of staff Kim Ki-chun had been widely expected to step down to take responsibility for the discord within the presidential office that followed a controversial document leak. On Friday, the president went against media speculation about Kim's successor and named National Intelligence Service Director Lee Byung-kee as her new chief of staff. Lee, a career diploma...
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