Creating Correlated Subqueries

I am currently trying to write a query to perform the following:
For those deactivated agents that are on more than seven missions, change their deactivation date to the earliest deactivation date of all agents who were activated in the same year as the agent you are updating.
I understand the question but dont know how to go about breaking it down.
Is there a method for mapping correlated sub-queries?
Any help appreciated.
TABLES
AGENTS
agent_id primary key
first_name
last_name
location_id foreign key
activation_date
deactivation_date
MISSION_AGENT
agent_id FK
mission_id FK
Some of the mess I have tried already:
SELECT
a2.agent_id,
new.mission_count,
a2.deactivation_date d_day,
a2.activation_date a_day
FROM
agents a2
INNER JOIN
SELECT
a.agent_id agent_id,
count(m.mission_id) mission_count
FROM
agents a
INNER JOIN
missions_agents m
ON
a.agent_id=m.agent_id
WHERE
deactivation_date is not null
GROUP BY
a.agent_id
) new
ON
a2.agent_id=new.agent_id
WHERE
new.mission_count>7
=========================================================
SELECT
d_day
FROM
SELECT
min(deactivation_date) d_day,
TO_CHAR(activation_date,'YYYY') a_year
FROM
agents t2
GROUP BY
TO_CHAR(activation_date,'YYYY')
WHERE
t2.a_year=t.TO_CHAR(activation_date,'YYYY')

see if this works...
SQL> drop table agents
2 /
Table dropped.
SQL> drop table mission_agent
2 /
Table dropped.
SQL> create table agents
2 (
3     agent_id                integer primary key,
4     activation_date         date,
5     deactivation_date       date
6 )
7 /
Table created.
SQL> insert into agents values (1,trunc(sysdate, 'year'),null)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into agents values (2,trunc(sysdate, 'year'),trunc(sysdate, 'year')+6)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into agents values (3,trunc(sysdate, 'year'),trunc(sysdate, 'year')+5)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into agents values (4,trunc(sysdate, 'year'),trunc(sysdate, 'year')+4)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into agents values (5,trunc(sysdate, 'year')-1,trunc(sysdate, 'year')+3)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> create table mission_agent
2 (
3     agent_id                integer,
4     mission_id              integer
5 )
6 /
Table created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(2,1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(4,2)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into mission_agent values(4,2)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> commit
2 /
Commit complete.
SQL> select * from agents
2 /
AGENT_ID ACTIVATIO DEACTIVAT
         1 01-JAN-08
         2 01-JAN-08 07-JAN-08
         3 01-JAN-08 06-JAN-08
         4 01-JAN-08 05-JAN-08
         5 31-DEC-07 04-JAN-08
SQL> select * from mission_agent
2 /
AGENT_ID MISSION_ID
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         2          1
         4          2
         4          2
10 rows selected.
SQL> update agents a
2     set deactivation_date =
3                    (select (select min(deactivation_date) deactivation_date
4                               from agents t
5                              where t.agent_id <> t1.agent_id
6                                and trunc(t.activation_date,'year') = trunc(t1.activation_date,'year')
7                                and t.deactivation_date is not null) new_deactivation_date
8                       from (select a.agent_id, max(a.activation_date) activation_date, max(a.deactivation_date) deactivation_date
9                               from agents a,
10                                    mission_agent ma
11                              where a.agent_id = ma.agent_id
12                                and deactivation_date is not null
13                              group by a.agent_id
14                             having count(1) > 7) t1
15                      where a.agent_id = t1.agent_id)
16   where exists
17             (select null
18               from (select a.agent_id, max(a.activation_date) activation_date, max(a.deactivation_date) deactivation_date
19                       from agents a,
20                            mission_agent ma
21                      where a.agent_id = ma.agent_id
22                        and deactivation_date is not null
23                      group by a.agent_id
24                     having count(1) > 7) t1
25              where a.agent_id = t1.agent_id)
26 /
1 row updated.
SQL> select * from agents
2 /
AGENT_ID ACTIVATIO DEACTIVAT
         1 01-JAN-08
         2 01-JAN-08 05-JAN-08
         3 01-JAN-08 06-JAN-08
         4 01-JAN-08 05-JAN-08
         5 31-DEC-07 04-JAN-08
SQL>Thanks,
Karthick.

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