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Former U.S. Ambassador Seong Kim returned from the U.S. administration to Joe Biden as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs.
The U.S. State Department announced on its website on the 21st (local time) that Indonesian Ambassador Sung Kim was appointed as “Actual Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific”.
Assistant Secretary Kim was appointed on the 20th, when President Biden took office. The Assistant Secretary of the East Asia-Pacific is the highest rank in the State Department in charge of Korea, China and Japan. It is expected to be formally appointed upon passing the Senate approval hearing.
He is of Korean descent and is a representative Korean peninsula expert within the US State Department. In the Barack Obama administration, he was in charge of major affairs related to the Korean peninsula, and in the Donald Trump administration, he has been deeply involved in the North Korean nuclear negotiations while serving as the head of foreign missions.
![After the photo session of the ASEAN Regional Security Forum (ARF) held in Singapore on the 4th, Seong Kim, the US Ambassador to the Philippines (left), is delivering President Donald Trump's reply to North Korean Foreign Minister Lee Yong-ho about Kim Jong-un's letter. [로이터=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/22/d1bfe51d-f17c-478e-bd80-a43a13c5ce65.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
After the photo session of the ASEAN Regional Security Forum (ARF) held in Singapore on the 4th, Seong Kim, the US Ambassador to the Philippines (left), is delivering President Donald Trump’s reply to North Korean Foreign Minister Lee Yong-ho about Kim Jong-un’s letter. [로이터=연합뉴스]
In June 2018, President Trump and Kim Jong-un, who were US ambassadors to the Philippines, took on preliminary practical negotiations with North Korea ahead of the North Korean-US Singapore summit meeting in June 2018.
Sun-hee Sun-hee of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry and Panmunjeom and Singapore had several pre-negotiations.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Kim served as the head of the Korean department of the State Department in 2006, and was selected as the chief representative of the six-party talks and envoy to North Korea in 2008.
That year, he built his career as a representative North Korean terrorist within the State Department, attending the site of the bombing of the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear facility as a representative of the United States.
In 2011, he was nominated as the first Korean ambassador to Korea. After completing his three-year term, he returned to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific in 2014, and was appointed by the Trump administration as Indonesian ambassador after the Philippines.
Washington = Correspondent Park Hyun-young [email protected]