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Thu, 04/21/2011 - 10:24
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S. Korea replaces envoys to China, Japan, U.N.

SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Lee Kyu-hyung, former South Korean ambassador to Russia, has been appointed as the nation's new ambassador to China in a reshuffle of senior diplomats that also affected the country's top envoys to Japan and the United Nations, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday.
President Lee Myung-bak tapped former Vice Foreign Minister Shin Kak-soo as new South Korean ambassador to Japan and Kim Sook, a former deputy director of the National Intelligence Service, as new ambassador to the United Nations, Cheong Wa Dae said.
"Kim Sook will immediately take the new post while the appointments of the two others will be finalized after the agreement procedures from the concerned countries," said Hong Sang-pyo, senior presidential secretary for public information.
If the relevant procedures are completed, Lee Kyu-hyung will replace Yu Woo-ik, while Shin will succeed Kwon Chul-hyun, Hong said.
"The replacement is quite natural because the outgoing envoys to China, Japan and the U.N. have retained their posts for quite a long time," Hong said.

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