The President of South Korea Moon Jae-in announced that he had replaced the country’s unification minister, who is responsible for affairs with North Korea.
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in’s office said on Thursday that the head of the state replaced his unification minister, Cho Myoung-gyon appointing a longtime confidant, a scholar who has headed the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification since last April.
The announcement comes soon after the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, which finished abruptly without any deal or declaration due to the parties’ failure to agree on the scale of North Korea’s denuclearization and US-led sanctions relief.