South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs “reorganizes” the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters, a symbol of the “Six-Party Talks”

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs will reorganize the ``Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters,'' which is in charge of North Korean nuclear negotiations, into the ``Diplomatic Strategic Information Headquarters.'' Significantly reduce the function of the North Korean nuclear negotiations, which have no clear prospects, and strengthen the information operations function.
This is in the same vein as the Ministry of Unification (province) reducing the function of inter-Korean exchanges and strengthening the information function. On the 7th, President Yoon Seo-gyeol (Yun Seok-yeoul) met with Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol.
We received a report on an organizational reorganization plan similar to the one above. This organizational change will include reorganizing the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters into the Diplomatic Strategic Information Headquarters, establishing a new organization specializing in economic security diplomacy, and creating a new organization in charge of Central Asia.
The key point is to transfer operations from the European Bureau to the Northeast Asia Bureau. The Headquarters for Peace Negotiations on the Korean Peninsula was established in 2006 as a temporary organization in response to the Six-Party Talks.
It became a permanent institution in 2011 as the North Korean nuclear issue became protracted. The head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters, who is at the vice-ministerial level, is in charge of the North's chief nuclear representative and is the core support person within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who discusses the North Korean nuclear issue with major countries.
It was a job. A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official said, ``In order to overcome the situation of global complex crisis, it is becoming increasingly important to take a strategic perspective and establish a sophisticated position.''
"The plan is to add strategy, intelligence, and national security functions to island operations and reorganize it into the Foreign Affairs and Strategic Intelligence Headquarters, in an effort to approach the Korean Peninsula issue in a broader context."
As a result, the role of North Korea's chief nuclear representative, who had previously been the head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters, will now be taken over by the ``head of the Foreign Affairs and Strategic Intelligence Headquarters.''
In the current situation where the North Korean nuclear negotiations have reached a stalemate, we will reorganize the organization that deals with ``peace'' and drastically change the nature of its operations to one that handles ``diplomatic information,'' which is becoming more and more important every day.
That's what it means.