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This article is about the American intelligence officer. For other uses, see Andrew Kim (disambiguation). In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Andrew Kim
The cropped picture from the meeting with North Korean representative(s) regarding the 2018 Trump-Kim summit.
Korean name
Hangul김성현
Revised RomanizationGim Seonghyeon
McCune–ReischauerKim Sŏnghyŏn

Kim Sung-hyun (Korean: 김성현), known as Andrew Kim, was a Korean-American intelligence officer and head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Korea Mission Centre.

Education

Born in South Korea, in the city of Pyeongchang. Kim was educated at Seoul High School alongside Suh Hoon. He is a cousin of Chung Eui-yong, the director of South Korea's National Security Office.

CIA career

He served in Moscow, Beijing and Bangkok and later as station chief in Seoul for the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired but returned to lead the Korea Mission Centre. Kim is viewed as a hawk on North Korea.

References

  1. "Sung Andrew Kim". Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
  2. ^ hermesauto (18 May 2018). "Mystery man in the middle of Trump-Kim summit planning has become a fascination". The Straits Times.
  3. "Veteran CIA man helped arrange Trump-Kim summit plans：The Asahi Shimbun".
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