Hearing for spy agency chief nominee

Park Jie-won, a former four-term lawmaker nominated to lead the National Intelligence Service, answers lawmakers' questions during his confirmation hearing at the National Assembly, Monday. Park denied an allegation that, before the first inter-Korean summit in 2000, he, as a special envoy to Pyongyang, had signed an agreement with North Korea on the South's providing $500 million to the North. He claimed the government only helped Hyundai Group provide money to the North. Yonhap