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Before the inauguration of the elected president, Park Jin, a member of the People's Power, has been confirmed as a special envoy to the United States.

At the same time, a list of transition committee members was additionally announced, including those whom the elected president prosecuted during his time in the prosecution service.



Reporter Hwa Kang-yun will tell you the details.



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Rep. Park Jin of People's Strength has been confirmed as the special special envoy to be sent to the United States before taking office, which was selected by President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol as a priority for the summit.



Rep. Park, who served as the chairman of the National Assembly's Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, was the US President and had a private meeting with US President Joe Biden in 2008.



Past presidents have sent special envoys to Japan, China and Russia, but this time, they are considering sending special envoys only to the United States and the European Union, a key official of the transition committee said.



Additional appointments were made to the transition committee.



Former Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Sang-mok, Seoul National University Professor Kim So-young, and Hongik University Professor Shin Sung-hwan, members of the Park Geun-hye government, and Shin Sung-hwan, professor at Hongik University were in the Economics Division 1 in charge of financial policy. In the Foreign Affairs and Security Division, former Vice Foreign Minister Kim Seong-han, who oversaw the presidential election policy, Kim Tae-hyo, former Blue House External Strategy Planning Officer, and former Deputy Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lee Jong-seop, were appointed as members, respectively.



All three foreign and security members are members of the Lee Myung-bak administration, who maintained a hardline stance toward North Korea through the assassination of Prince Park and the sinking of the Cheonan.



In the document introducing Jong-seop Lee, the transition committee also specified the additional deployment of THAAD along with strengthening the ROK-U.S. combined exercise, the promise made by the elected president.



[Eun-hye Kim / Spokesperson Yun Seok-yeol: (Elect Yun Seok-yeol) so that the reconstruction of the Korea-US alliance and strengthening of the comprehensive strategic alliance can be promoted as soon as possible...

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Kim Tae-hyo was indicted on charges of conspiring to complicate the ROK Army Cyber ​​Command's 'comment operation' during the 2012 presidential election, raising controversy over its appropriateness.



It was the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, led by then Prosecutor Yoon Seok-yeol, who prosecuted Kim.



The transition committee explained that there was no problem with the appointment, saying that Kim was acquitted in the first and second trials and is awaiting the Supreme Court decision.



(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, Video editing: Park Soo-seon)