South Korea’s next president considering Yun Duk-min as envoy to Japan: source

Seoul – South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol plans to nominate Yun Duk-min, a former head of the Korea Nationwide Diplomatic Academy who is understood for his information of Japan, as the following ambassador to the nation, a supply near the matter stated Wednesday.

The 62-year-old obtained a doctoral diploma at Tokyo’s Keio College and is proficient in Japanese. He’s additionally an professional on diplomatic and safety affairs, together with North Korea.

Yoon, a conservative, is ready to take workplace on Tuesday. He has expressed willingness to enhance ties with Japan, which have soured beneath the present progressive authorities over points stemming from Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

Since becoming a member of Yoon’s presidential marketing campaign, Yun served as an adviser on diplomatic affairs. In late April, he visited Japan as a part of a delegation despatched by the president-elect and held talks with Japanese leaders, together with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Park Cheol-hee, a professor at Seoul Nationwide College’s Graduate Faculty of Worldwide Research, had additionally been floated as a attainable nominee for the ambassadorship. Fluent in Japanese, he was additionally a part of the Yoon delegation to Japan.

In an interview in February, Yun stated Yoon has a “very robust conviction” that South Korea-Japan relations must be improved. He stated then that as China emerges and makes assertive strikes, regional “stability and equilibrium” will be attained solely via the normalization of bilateral ties.

A supply on Yoon’s transition crew touted Yun as a correct selection as ambassador to Japan as a result of, along with having a deep understanding of Japan, he dealt with diplomatic and safety coverage coordination within the Yoon camp.

For the following ambassador to the USA, Yoon is alleged to have largely settled on Cho Tae-yong, a member of the Nationwide Meeting who served as first vice overseas minister beneath the earlier conservative authorities led by President Park Geun-hye.