Kim Jin-ah, the new Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (46, photo), is evaluated as an academic with an excellent sense of multilateral diplomacy.
Vice Minister Kim completed a bachelor's degree in English language and literature and political diplomacy at Pusan National University, and then graduated with a master's degree in international studies from Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies. He later received a Ph.D. in international relations from Tufts University Fletcher School.
Vice Minister Kim is currently a professor at Korea University of Foreign Studies LD department and has served as a disarmament advisor to the UN Secretary-General, director and research fellow at the North Korea Military Research Institute of the Korea Defense Research Institute, and a project evaluation committee member at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the last 21st presidential election, he served as a co-chairman of the practical diplomacy committee centered on national interests under the Democratic Party of Korea's global responsibility country committee, engaging in President Yoon's diplomatic policy planning.
The Presidential Office noted, "His diverse and multifaceted experience, such as serving as an advisor to the Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, stands out, and he is a promising scholar who is the third Korean to serve as an advisor to the UN Secretary-General. He is expected to safeguard Korea's national interests on the multilateral diplomacy stage."
▲January 1979, Busan ▲Bachelor's degree in English language and literature and political diplomacy from Pusan National University ▲Master's degree in international studies from Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies ▲Ph.D. in international relations from Tufts University Fletcher School ▲Evaluation committee member and policy advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ▲Research fellow at the Security Strategy Research Center and director of the North Korea Military Research Institute at the Korea Defense Research Institute ▲Disarmament advisor to the UN Secretary-General ▲Professor at Korea University of Foreign Studies LD department