President-elect Yoon Finalizes Appointment of US-Korea Policy Consultation Delegation Including Park Jin and Cho Tae-yong (Comprehensive)

Deputy Chief, Former Deputy Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yong
Names Including Professors Jeong Jae-ho and Park Cheol-hee Listed

Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, is talking with Assemblyman Park Jin after announcing the foreign affairs and security global vision for a "global pivotal state contributing to freedom, peace, and prosperity" at the party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 24th. Photo by the National Assembly Press Photographers Group

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol finalized the appointment of the Korea-US Policy Consultation Delegation on the 29th.

The spokesperson office of the president-elect announced that on the same day, Park Jin, a member of the People Power Party, was appointed as the head of the Korea-US Policy Consultation Delegation. Park, a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, is a prominent diplomat in the National Assembly, having served as vice chairman of the Korea-US Parliamentary Diplomacy Council and chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee of the National Assembly. In August 2008, he visited the United States to attend the Korea-US Parliamentary Diplomacy Council and had a private meeting with then Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, President Biden.

The deputy head will be Cho Tae-yong, a member of the People Power Party and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Cho is a diplomat well-versed in US and North Korean nuclear issues, having served as the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Office for Peaceful Settlement of the Korean Peninsula, the first vice minister of foreign affairs, and the first deputy director of the National Security Office.

Additionally, the delegation includes Professor Jung Jae-ho of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University, Professor Park Cheol-hee of the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, retired Major General Pyo Se-woo (former defense attach? at the Korean Embassy in the US), Senior Research Fellow Yeon Won-ho of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, and Kang In-sun, the president-elect’s foreign press spokesperson. Professor Jung is known as a China expert, while Professor Park is recognized as a Japan expert. Professor Park also participated in President-elect Yoon’s campaign pledges on Korea-Japan relations and serves as a specialist on the foreign and security subcommittee of the transition team.

The Policy Consultation Delegation is scheduled to visit the United States early next month to discuss key issues. Since the US Congress will enter a two-week recess starting from the 11th of next month, the delegation must visit before then to meet with congressional officials. The delegation is expected to have broad meetings with policymakers and executors, including the US National Security Council (NSC), the State Department, and congressional officials.

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