SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in's new choice of ambassador to Tokyo is a fluent Japanese speaker with close ties to lawmakers in the country, but faces the thorny task of mending relations between the two East Asian neighbors.
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Kang Chang-il, a former lawmaker in South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, has been named as the country's new ambassador to Japan. © EPA/Yonhap/Jiji
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