{"id":10693,"date":"2021-01-20T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118471\/south-koreas-moon-names-new-foreign-minister-he-looks-revive"},"modified":"2021-01-20T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:01:41","slug":"south-koreas-moon-names-new-foreign-minister-as-he-looks-to-revive-stalled-peace-talks-with-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/south-koreas-moon-names-new-foreign-minister-as-he-looks-to-revive-stalled-peace-talks-with-pyongyang\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Moon names new foreign minister as he looks to revive stalled peace talks with Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday named a former national security adviser who played a key role in realising the first-ever summit between the United States and North Korea as the country\u2019s next foreign minister.The nomination of Chung Eui-yong \u2013 who told outgoing US President Donald Trump that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wanted to denuclearise \u2013 comes hours before the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden.Chung will replace Kang Kyung-wha, Seoul\u2019s first female foreign\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118471\/south-koreas-moon-names-new-foreign-minister-he-looks-revive\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday named a former national security adviser who played a key role in realising the first-ever summit between the United States and North Korea as the country\u2019s next foreign minister.The nomination of Chung E&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10723,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}