Police and public safety agencies said Thursday they will call on the South Korean government to provide them with investigative documents on the 1973 abduction in Tokyo of then South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, officials of the agencies said.

The decision came after a South Korean government panel released a report in October admitting that the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the nation's then intelligence organ, was involved in the abduction of Kim, who later became South Korea's president.

Based on a bilateral agreement on criminal investigation cooperation, the National Police Agency and the National Public Safety Commission will ask South Korea to allow them to question Kim as well as Kim Dong Woon, the first secretary of the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo at the time, whose fingerprints were found in a hotel room from which Kim Dae Jung was abducted.