The post of the ambassador to the US will require much more than those nominal experiences, especially at a time when the crisis over North Korea’s nuclear and missile provocations calls for foolproof coordination between the two countries.

Unfortunately, none of the appointees seem to meet the requirement. Cho, who headed a policy think tank that advised Moon during the campaign, taught economics at a university in Seoul. He served as the ambassador to the UK during the Roh administration and also was Moon’s special envoy to the EU and Germany shortly after Moon’s election victory.

Moon’s aides at Cheong Wa Dae insisted that the president may well pick people who share his “governing philosophy.” It is not entirely wrong, but there should be a prerequisite: candidates must have minimum qualifications.

So Moon will have given the US, China, Japan and Russia envoy posts -- which are so important to Korea that they are referred to as the “four surrounding superpowers” -- to people close and loyal to him. It is rare none of the four posts will go to a career foreign service officer.

Of them, both Cho, an economist, and Lee, an international relations professor, have ties back to the administration of the late President Roh Moo-hyun, Moon’s former mentor and boss. Cho was a senior economic adviser to Roh and Lee headed a presidential commission on Northeast Asia.

Moon has yet to name an ambassador to Russia, but reports point to the possibility that the post would also go to another Moon ally, Woo Yoon-keun, a former ruling party lawmaker who now serves as the secretary-general of the National Assembly.

To be exact, all three nominees were selected because they had been major contributors to Moon’s presidential campaign. Both Cho Yoon-je, the nominee for ambassador to the US and Noh Young-min, the nominee for the top envoy to China, had played key roles in Moon’s campaign team. Lee Su-hoon, who was named to be ambassador to Japan, was a senior member of Moon’s transition team.

It is ironic, but the latest ambassadorial appointments of President Moon Jae-in, whose election campaign definitely benefited from the Park-Choi scandal, raised the need for the National Assembly to move fast on the bills to subject nominees for ambassadors to parliamentary vetting process.

남주가 본인의 사랑을 깨달은 후에는 여주를 아조 확실히 붙잡아주네요
여주 성격도 똑똑하고 멋지고요

The ruling party lawmaker wrote the bills in reaction to the revelation that Choi Soon-sil, the jailed confidante of ousted President Park Geun-hye, peddled influence in the appointment of a former corporate executive as ambassador to Myanmar in 2016.

In February this year, Rep. Shim Jae-kwon, chairman of the National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee, authored three bills to add ambassadors appointed by the president to a list of senior administration officials whose nominations are required to go through parliamentary confirmation hearing.

The tremor\'s detection came hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

The latest quakes in North Korea are raising fears that the North is accelerating its nuclear test amid the growing tension on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in 2006.

However, the Korean Meterological Administration said it did not detect any sign of the second quake, contradicting China\'s announcement. The KMA initially announced the first quake was 5.6 magnitude. It adjusted the magnitude to 5.7.

Chinese authorities also confirmed the detection of the first quake, measuring its magnitude at 6.3. China\'s related agency also said it detected the North\'s second quake of 4.6 magnitude.

President Moon Jae-in convened a National Security Council session, shortly after the \"artificial earthquake\" from North Korea\'s nuclear test site was detected.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the first tremor was 6.3 on the exponential scale, suggesting a far bigger test than before. The location of the epicenter was near the site where the North had detonated nuclear explosions in the past.

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꼬맹이 처제가 너무 귀여워요
무뚝뚝했던 남자가 완젼 녹아버리네요

According to the Korean authorites and the media, a termor with the 5.7 magnitude was detected in Gilju-gun, North Hamgyeong Province, at around 12:20 p.m. on Sunday. Another quake on scale of 4.6 was reportedly detected later on the test site.

Two quakes were detected in North Korea in North Korea on Sunday, touching off speculation that Pyongyang has conducted its sixth nuclear test despite mounting international pressure.