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Cleaning House
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In the dark chambers of South Korea's notorious spy agency, Kim Nak
Joong paid the price for consorting with the enemy. As a young scholar
with an idealistic desire to see the Korean peninsula united, Kim
traveled to the communist North as a self-styled peace broker. In South
Korea 40 years ago, that made him a North Korean spy. The agency's
interrogators beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess
that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed
out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim,...