Correction: A previous version of this article said that Haspel commented that Kim would be retiring at the end of the year. The statement reported by CNN however only says that Kim will be retiring. Yonhap News Agency reported Kim would leave his post at the end of 2018. 

Head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Korea Mission Center Andrew Kim is set to retire, head of the CIA Gina Haspel confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

The confirmation comes after South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported earlier on Tuesdaythat Kim would be leaving his post at the end of 2018, citing