South Korean President Moon Jae-in has replaced his unification minister who pla...
SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has replaced his unification minister who played a major role in last year’s detente with the North, his office said on Friday, and named a longtime confidant to lead Moon’s drive for “a new Korean peninsula”.
“He’s the right man who can actively embody the president’s vision for a new Korean peninsula, a new peace and cooperation community, by carrying out the Unification Ministry’s main policy tasks without a hitch and implementing inter-Korean agreements in a speedy manner,” Moon’s spokesman told a news briefing.
The removal of Cho, who has yet to say if he will enter politics, comes a week after the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to narrow their differences on dismantling the North’s nuclear program and U.S. willingness to ease sanctions. Some top aides, including national security adviser Chung Eui-yong, had pushed for the economic projects to go ahead. Cho and other aides favored sticking to Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign to force the North’s denuclearization.
It could also signal deeper divisions within Moon’s government, some analysts said, and fuel U.S. concerns that the South may be moving too quickly with the North. Kim Yeon-chul, a pro-engagement scholar who has headed the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification and a nominee for South Korean Unification Ministry is seen in this undated picture provided by the Presidential Blue House and released by Yonhap on March 8, 2019. The Presidential Blue House/Yonhap via REUTERS
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