Moon picks ex-head of National Security Office as new foreign minister

South Korean President Moon Jae In picked Chung Eui Yong, a former director of the National Security Office, as the new foreign minister, the presidential office said Wednesday.The announcement that the former career diplomat will replace Kang Kyung Wha, who has been the country's top diplomat since the start of the Moon administration, comes as Democrat Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated as president of the United States.The personnel change is "meant to breathe vigor into (the South Korean government's) foreign policy" team on the occasion of the launch of the new U.S. administration, a s…READ FULL ARTICLE