New Unification Minister to Improve Ties with Pyongyang

摘要

South Korean president Moon Jae-in has replaced his unification minister who played a major role in last year's detente with the North, his office said March 8, and named a longtime confidant to lead Moon's drive for "a new Korean peninsula." Kim Yeon-chul, a pro-engagement scholar who heads the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification, will replace Cho My-oung-gyon pending a confirmation hearing. Kim, 55, is a North Korea studies professor and adviser to a previous administration in which Moon also served.