The nomination is likely to add strain to ties between the two Koreas. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday picked a conservative scholar and an outspoken critic of North Korea’s human rights record as the country’s new unification minister handling relations with Pyongyang in a cabinet reshuffle.
Mr Kim, 63, served as a presidential secretary for unification and a human rights envoy under the conservative Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations. “I will do my best to resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue with a principled approach and build the foundation to improve inter-Korean relations,” Prof Kim told reporters after the appointment was announced.
But the ministry has seen its standing change along with relations between the neighbours. The two Koreas remain technically at war under an armistice on the 1950-53 Korean War.
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