Biden custom greetings? Eui-yong’s diplomatic diplomacy with the United States’Trump White House’ for only 3 years

On the 20th, President Moon Jae-in appointed Eui-yong Eui-yong, former head of the Blue House National Security Office (President’s Foreign Affairs and Security Special Affairs) as the new foreign minister. As the candidate for the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hwang-hee and the Democratic Party member, and Kwon Chil-seung were appointed as the candidate for the Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business.

Man-ho Jung, chief of public communication, said,Candidate Jung is the best expert who has devoted his life to the field of diplomacy and security.” In addition, he explained the reason for his selection, saying, “Candidate Hwang has demonstrated excellent policy planning power, and Candidate Kwon has a deep understanding of the issues.”
Among the three ministries announced on this day, the replacement of Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo and Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business Park Young-sun has been publicly discussed. However, there have been many observations that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha, the longest minister of the Moon Jae-in administration, will be excluded from this reorganization. A passport source said, “It seems that President Moon also decided to change the minister until the end, but it was almost the last decision.”
In response, the Blue House official “There has been a change in the administration of major countries, such as the inauguration of the Biden administration in the United States,” and “to inspire new vitality in the diplomatic line accordingly.”He explained the reason for the replacement of Minister Kang. He said that he gave a personalized greeting about half a day before the inauguration of the new US President Joe Biden.

However, there are many skewed responses from diplomats. Candidate Chung, who served as the trade negotiation coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ambassador of Joshoneva, has a normal major. In the 1990s, he worked as a construction company at the US Embassy in the United States, and he was a construction company in charge of economic and trade. At the political level, especially in the field of security, diplomatic experience with the United States is actually concentrated in about three years (May 2017-July 2020) of the Moon Jae-in administration as head of the Blue House National Security Office. It also means that the only counterpart was’Trump’s White House’.
In particular, Candidate Chung was at the center of the dialogue between the two Koreas in 2018-2019. After visiting North Korea in March 2018, he met Kim Jong-un, chairman of the North Korean State Council, and immediately went to Washington to inform US President Donald Trump of his intentions for the North Korean-US summit. Targeting reporters at the White House, “Chairman Kim expressed his will to denuclearize and said he would like to meet President Trump early. President Trump said he would meet Chairman Kim in May.” The summit meeting between the United States and North Korea was announced by the head of the National Security Office of Korea at the White House.

The problem is that there has been no progress in the denuclearization of North Korea since, and Biden’s security team sees this series of processes negatively. Biden-elect criticized the North Korean-US summit meeting in October last year as “justifying the gangsters.”
A source in the United States said, “In Washington, there is a strong view that Kim Jong-un tricked Trump, and Korea cannot be free from that responsibility. “It is a fact that everyone knows that Candidate Jung played a key role in the process.”
In a memoir published last year, former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton, who was actually a counterpart of Candidate Jung, “Mr. Jung almost admitted that it was he who later suggested to Kim Jong-un to make such an invitation (North Korea-US summit).”He said. In addition, “I talked with Mr. Jeong a few days after the’Hanoi No Deal’, and Kim Jong-un’s proposal to denuclearize the Yongbyon nuclear facility conveyed President Moon’s thought that North Korea was taking the first step toward irreversible denuclearization.” It was expressed as “a schizophrenic idea.” Candidate Chung refuted that at the time, “Bolton’s memoirs are distortions that are different from facts.”

If Candidate Jung becomes the foreign minister, the main task is to persuade the Biden administration to succeed the Singapore agreement and resume dialogue with North Korea, as President Moon announced at a New Year’s press conference on the 18th. President Moon said, “(Biden’s administration’s dialogue with the United States) should succeed and develop the achievements achieved by the Trump administration.”
But US Secretary of State Candidate Tony Blincoln said at a Senate approval hearing on the 19th (local time) that the North Korean nuclear situation was worsening and that “we will review the overall approach.” This is the reason why there are concerns that if Candidate Jung assumes the role of ‘Singapore Declaration Evangelist’ in the diplomatic process with the United States, side effects may occur in the alliance, as well as misunderstanding that this Insun was more centered on North Korea rather than the United States. . Reuters news agency also interpreted Chung’s internal administration as “part of an effort to revive dialogue with North Korea.”

Meanwhile, the Blue House Seoul City’s International Relations Ambassador Kim Hyung-jin was appointed as the second deputy head of the National Security Office of the Blue House. Deputy Deputy Secretary General Kim, who has served as the North American Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of the leading US and North Korean nuclear weapons in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is evaluated for his excellent work ability and strong trust from his seniors and juniors. Earlier, the Blue House appointed Kim Joon-gu, secretary for peace planning in December of last year, and Secretary Kim also has a wealth of experience working with the United States. As a result, diplomats are also expecting that the lack of expertise, which was considered a chronic problem of the Moon Jae-in government’s diplomatic and security line, can be somewhat resolved.
Former Vice-Chief of the National Security Office, Kim Hyeon-jong, has been appointed Special Advisor for Foreign Affairs and Security of the President. There is an interpretation that it is not a full-time job directly involved in the work, but a de facto hard job, but there is a prospect that it will be possible to return at any time as it maintains the special job title.
Reporter Yoo Ji-hye [email protected]