So it's confirmed: retired Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr. will be the next ambassador to South Korea for the United States, finally filling a position left open since President Trump’s inauguration in January last year.
Harris enters the job with almost four decades of experience in the Navy, but also with high-level diplomatic exposure working as military representative to Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry in 2011.
So it's confirmed: retired Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr. will be the next ambassador to South Korea for the United States, finally filling a position left open since President Trump’s inauguration in January last year.
Harris enters the job with almost four decades of experience in the Navy, but also with high-level diplomatic exposure working as military representative to Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry in 2011.
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