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South Korea’s Yoon names hawkish academic as unification minister

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has named academic Kim Yung-ho to head Seoul’s new unification ministry. Kim has previously served as the presidential secretary for unification and a human rights envoy under the conservative Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations. – EPA pic, June 29, 2023.

SOUTH Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol today named a conservative academic with a hawkish stance on North Korea to head Seoul’s new unification ministry, which handles relations with Pyongyang. Kim Yung-ho, a political science professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has been a vocal critic of North Korea’s human rights abuses and has argued the issue must be raised “head-on in leader Kim Jong-un’s face”.

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