 In 1980 he also worked as a member of the Special Committee for National Security Measures (SCNSM), a junta-like committee establish by coup d'état leader Chun Doo-hwan (who was seizing state power as then-Defense Security Commander).Kim Chong-kon retired from the post as Chief of Naval Operations on May 14, 1981, and was later appointed as the country's Ambassador to the ROC on July 25.He arrived at Taipei on August 18 to assume his new office, handing in the Letter of credence on August 25.