Joung Youn, 76; Aided MacArthur’s Invasion of Inchon
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Joung Youn, 76, former South Korean navy commander who served as U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence agent for the Inchon invasion during the Korean War , died Sunday in Los Angeles. No cause of death was given.
Youn, an intelligence expert who later became a U.S. citizen and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, earned three Silver Stars and the Legion of Merit for his assistance in occupied Japan after World War II and in Korea. In Los Angeles, he became a leader of Korean veterans.
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