SEOUL: The new head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service is credited with having helped arrange two summits between the Koreas in the 2000s—and was involved in a plan to build Pyongyang a nuclear reactor.

Suh Hoon worked at the spy agency for 28 years until leaving in 2008—when a conservative government was elected—to move to academia.

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