South Korea's newly appointed unification minister Lee In-young. - Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters): South Korean President Moon Jae-in's new point men on North Korea face a daunting challenge: They must engineer a breakthrough in strained ties amid public scrutiny of their history with Pyongyang, which once landed them in prison.
Moon this week appointed Park Jie-won as director of the National Intelligence Agency (NIS) and Lee In-young as the unification minister, seeking to cement progress with North Korea as a major legacy in his final two years in office.
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