President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ongoing Cabinet reshuffle has been criticized as a series of revolving door appointments as familiar faces, mostly his close aides, are anticipated to take turns holding ministerial and other key government posts ahead of the upcoming general elections slated for April.
Seoul, Washington and Tokyo are having “positive views” on holding their trilateral summit annually, and tangible outcomes can be expected from the upcoming three-way summit scheduled for Aug. 18, South Korea s National Security Director Cho Tae-yong said Friday. “The three-way summit is a massive diplomatic meeting bearing extra significances,” Cho told reporters at Incheon International Airport before departing for Saudi Arabia to meet with other national security advisers this weekend for multilateral peace talks for Ukraine.