South Korea’s former peace and safety affairs envoy who helped coordinate the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit will be a part of the incoming Yoon Suk-yeol administration as vice overseas minister, the president-elect introduced Monday.
Lee Do-hoon was Moon Jae-in’s high North Korea envoy from Sept. 2017 to Dec. 2020 and counterpart to Stephen Biegun through the Donald Trump administration.
Throughout Lee’s tenure, Trump held two summits with DPRK chief Kim Jong Un and Moon held three. Trump, Moon and Kim additionally met briefly on the inter-Korean border in mid-2019. Lee was additionally Seoul’s chief
South Korea’s former peace and safety affairs envoy who helped coordinate the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit will be a part of the incoming Yoon Suk-yeol administration as vice overseas minister, the president-elect introduced Monday.
Lee Do-hoon was Moon Jae-in’s high North Korea envoy from Sept. 2017 to Dec. 2020 and counterpart to Stephen Biegun through the Donald Trump administration.
