Presidential Security Service or PSS is a title which exists in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea.

Russian Federation

The Russian PSS is the agency charged with the protection of the President of Russia and the Kremlin. It may be decended directly from the Kremlin Guard Force of the KGB. It is directly responsible for and to the President of Russia, it has at times been merged with and separated from the Russian Federal Protective Service or FPS. Like the United States Secret Service, the PSS contains both uniformed and plainclothes personnel. Like the FPS service in the PSS is equal to military service. List of Presidents of Russia Boris Yeltsin1 ( July 10, 1991 – December 31, 1999) two terms. ... The Moscow Kremlin The Moscow Kremlin ( Russian: Московский Кремль) is the best known kremlin ( Russian citadel). ... The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti   listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ... In the Russian Federation, the Federal Protective Service was formerly the Ninth Chief (aka The Guards) Directorate of the KGB and is now an independent organization. ... The United States Secret Service is a United States federal government law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security (prior to the founding of that department in 2002, it was under the United States Department of the Treasury). ...

Republic of Korea or South Korea

The South Korean PSS is responsible for the protection of the President of South Korea and the Blue House. It has always been an independent agency and was based on the United States Secret Service. The President is head of state of South Korea. ... Cheong Wa Dae (or The Blue House) is the executive office and official residence of the South Korean head of state, the President of the Republic of Korea. ... The United States Secret Service is a United States federal government law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security (prior to the founding of that department in 2002, it was under the United States Department of the Treasury). ...

See Also

• Praetorian Guard
• Republican Guard