SEOUL -- The Biden administration has beefed up its North Korea team with the appointment this week of Jung Pak, a Korean American scholar and former Central Intelligence Agency analyst, as deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department.
Biden's Asia policy
Biden bolsters North Korea team with Korean American ex-CIA analyst
Jung Pak is a critic of Trump-Kim summits and advocates full denuclearization
Jung Pak becomes deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department as talks between the U.S. and North Korea remain stalemated. (Screenshot from The Brookings Institution's YouTube page)
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