China News Service, May 6. According to Yonhap News Agency, on the 5th local time, the U.S. Senate approved Philip Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to Colombia, as ambassador to South Korea, ending the one-year four-year term of the U.S. ambassador to South Korea. month vacancy.
According to reports, after the current U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Harry Harris, appointed by the Trump administration, left, and the post of U.S. ambassador to South Korea has been vacant since then.
Goldberg will go to South Korea after he is officially appointed by Biden, and is expected to take up his post before Biden starts his trip to South Korea on the 20th.
Goldberg is a veteran diplomat and the second U.S. ambassador to South Korea after former Indonesian ambassador Singh Kim (currently the U.S. State Department's special representative to North Korea) who worked in South Korea from 2011 to 2014, the report said. The ambassador's career diplomat.
Career Ambassador (Career Ambassador) is the highest ranking among US diplomats.
The report also said that Goldberg served as the U.S. ambassador to Chile, Cuba, ambassador to Bolivia and the Philippines, as the ambassador to Colombia from 2019 to the present, and from 2010 to 2013 as the director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). Assistant Secretary of State.