Impact Player: Ambassador Hwang Joon-kook

Informing audiences about key policy makers in issue areas of importance to US-Korea relations.

Hwang Joon-kook is the new Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs for the Republic of Korea (ROK), which means he is the country’s top delegate for the Six-Party Talks. Ambassador Hwang is a career diplomat, serving most recently as the ROK Ambassador for Defense Burden-sharing, the ROK’s top delegate for the 9th Special Measures Agreement (SMA) between the US and ROK, which was signed successfully on January 11, 2014.

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Andy Lim