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Our diplomatic line has also changed with the inauguration of US President Biden.
President Moon Jae-in has appointed former Blue House National Security Officer Eui-yong Eui-yong to succeed Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa.
In addition, Hwang Hee and Kwon Chil-seung, two re-elected lawmakers, were selected as candidates for the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Minister of SMEs.
This is Park Won-kyung.
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Candidate Eui-yong Eui-yong of Foreign Affairs Minister Eui-
Yong
played a decisive role in concluding the inter-Korean and North American summits between North Korea and the US in 2018.
[Jeong Eui-yong/Diplomatic Candidate (U.S. White House, 2018) President Trump thanked the envoy briefing and said he would meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.] A
North American dialogue that stopped in Hanoi a year later, and President Moon Jae-in's judgment is that Eui-Yong Chung, the first security officer of the current government, is the right person to reconcile the disorganized conditions with the appearance of a new protagonist called the Biden administration.
It is also the first card of President Moon's final efforts in his fifth year in office in his New Year's address.
[President Moon Jae-in's New Year's Address (Last 11th): I will make my last effort to achieve a great turn in the paused dialogue between North and South
Korea
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Candidate Jung revealed that if he was appointed, he would do his best to help the peace process on the Korean Peninsula take root. Indicated that they would prioritize the restoration of North American dialogue.
In addition, he was responsible for the tasks that Minister Kang Gyeong-hwa failed to do, such as the search for the normalization of the frozen ROK-Japan relations and the release of Korean sailors detained in Iran.