By Kim Ji-soo
Staff reporter
Yoon Pil-yong, former chief of the Capital Defense Command, passed away Saturday. He was 83.
Yoon served as head of the ROK Army’s intelligence unit in the 1960s and then went on to become the head of the Capital Defense Command in 1970, a pivotal post in the Korean military at that time.
But in 1973, he was forced to retire from the military after he told the then-director Lee Hoo-rak of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) that Lee was going to succeed the then-President Park Chung-hee.
Afterwards, Yoon continued to work in the public arena, heading the Korea Expressway Corp., Korea Tomorrow and Global, a large Korean cigar maker.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
His funeral is scheduled for Tuesday.