South Korea’s next National Security Office (NSO) chief will be former vice foreign minister and academic Kim Sung-han, Yoon Suk-yeol’s camp announced over the weekend. 

The NSO is the South Korean presidential office’s equivalent to the U.S. National Security Council, and Kim will be in a position to advise Yoon Suk-yeol on North Korea and other matters of state security. 

“When it comes to relations with North Korea, I am of a position to normalize a principled inter-Korean relations, as the president-elect has been stressing,” Kim said on Sunday at a briefing following his nomination. Kim is a confidant of