President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to name First Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin as his new national security adviser, a presidential official said Thursday. Chang, a career diplomat who served as Yoon's first ambassador to Russia, will succeed Cho Tae-yong as director of national security after Cho was nominated last week for chief of the National Intelligence Service. Chang's appointment could be announced .
President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to name First Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin as his new national security adviser, a presidential official said Thursday.
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday appointed all three top-level presidential secretaries, promoting his chief policy secretary, Lee Kwan-sup, to chief of staff, appointing an economic expert to succeed Lee and tapping First Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin as his national security adviser. All of the ministerial-level presidential secretaries, who report directly to Yoon, will start work on Monday, the first day .
South Korea will seek to expand maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific as part of efforts to implement its own Indo-Pacific strategy crafted to contribute to regional peace and stability, a senior foreign ministry official said Tuesday.
President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee flew to the Netherlands on Monday upon the invitation of King Willem-Alexander, in a bid to strengthen bilateral semiconductor supply chain cooperation and to enhance the European nation s involvement in Indo-Pacific regional security, in what would be his last trip to a foreign country this year. Yoon is the first South Korean president to pay a state visit .