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As the FBI faces mounting scrutiny over its internal corruption and lack of accountability, the challenge of reforming the agency grows more urgent, with Donald Trump’s administration potentially poised to confront the “untouchables” entrenched within.

In South Korea the summer of 2024 has been marked by a series of spy scandals, which vividly illustrate a number of the country’s domestic and foreign policy problems. In this article we will look at a scandal involving the US and South Korean intelligence agencies. On July 16, 2024, the US federal prosecutor’s office has charged Sue Mi Terry, a prominent US expert on North Korea and a former CIA officer and analyst, with acting on behalf of the South Korea and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). She was arrested but was released on $500,000 bail the same day.

America’s CIA, the FBI, and other powerful agencies of the U.S. have been under fire recently for a range of questionable, even illegal, in some cases, being undertaken both inside and outside America’s borders. For example, the release of the so-called “Twitter files” seems to prove massive interference in social media from what’s come...