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President Lee picks South Korea’s first civilian defence chief in 64 years – Times of India – Delhi News Daily

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President Lee picks South Korea's first civilian defence chief in 64 years

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defence minister Monday, breaking with a tradition of appointing retired military generals. The announcement came as several prominent former defence officials, including ex-Defence Minister Kim Yong Hyun, face high-profile criminal trials over their roles in carrying out martial law last year under then-President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was indicted on rebellion charges and removed from office. Ahn Gyu-back, a lawmaker from Lee’s Democratic Party, has served on the national assembly’s defence committee and chaired a legislative panel that investigated the circumstances surrounding Yoon’s martial law decree. Yoon’s authoritarian move involved deploying hundreds of heavily armed troops to the national assembly and election commission offices in what prosecutors described as an illegal attempt to shut down the legislature and arrest political opponents and election officials. That sparked calls to strengthen civilian control over the military, and Lee promised during his election campaign to appoint a defense minister with a civilian background. Since a 1961 coup that brought military dictator Park Chung-hee to power, all of South Korea’s defence ministers have come from the military – a trend that continued even after the country’s democratisation in the late 1980s. While Ahn will face a legislative hearing, the process is likely to be a formality, since the Democrats hold a comfortable majority in the national assembly and legislative consent isn’t required for Lee to appoint him. Among Cabinet appointments, Lee only needs legislative consent for prime minister, Seoul’s nominal No. 2 job. “As the first civilian minister of national defence in 64 years, he will be responsible for leading and overseeing the transformation of the military after its mobilisation in martial law,” Kang Hoon-sik, Lee’s chief of staff, said in a briefing. Ahn was among 11 ministers nominated by Lee on Monday, with longtime diplomat Cho Hyun selected as foreign minister and five-term lawmaker Chung Dong-young returning for another stint as unification minister – a position he held from 2004 to 2005 as Seoul’s point man for relations with North Korea.





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