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Choe Son Hui, first woman to head North Korean diplomacy

2022-06-11T03:25:42.712Z


North Korea has appointed Choe Son Hui as foreign minister, state media reported on Saturday (June 11th), as...


North Korea has named Choe Son Hui as foreign minister, state media reported on Saturday (June 11th), as Pyongyang continues a series of weapons tests and ignores US calls for talks.

She is the first woman to hold this position.

Choe Son Hui, a former vice foreign minister, was named to lead North Korean diplomacy at a ruling party meeting chaired by leader Kim Jong Un, according to the official KCNA news agency.

She replaces Ri Son Gwon, a hard-line former military official who led negotiations with South Korea.

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A career diplomat fluent in English, Choe Son Hui was a close adviser to Kim Jong Un during nuclear talks with the United States and accompanied the North Korean leader to summits with then-US President Donald Trump. .

She had held a rare question-and-answer session with reporters overnight that saw the Hanoi summit between the two leaders fall apart in February 2019. She then blamed Washington.

"I think the United States missed a golden opportunity by rejecting our proposals

," she said.

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Since then, diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington has been at an impasse.

The North Korean regime has not responded in recent months to offers from Washington to return to the negotiating table.

North Korea, which has nuclear weapons, has been conducting a series of weapons tests since the beginning of the year, including the firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since 2017. US and South Korean officials have also warned that Kim Jong Un's regime may carry out a nuclear test.

On Tuesday, US Assistant Secretary of State Wendy Sherman warned there would be a

"swift and forceful"

response if Pyongyang proceeded with what would be its seventh such test.

Source: lefigaro

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