SEOUL -- South Korea on Thursday tapped a vocal critic of North Korea as the country's new top official handling affairs with its nuclear-armed neighbor, signaling increasingly open criticism of Pyongyang's human rights abuses.
President Yoon Suk Yeol named Kim Yung-ho, a conservative professor at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul, to lead the Ministry of Unification, the government body in charge of relations with the North.
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