Young-mok Kim - "Emerging Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S."

Young-mok Kim, Consul General of the Republic of Korea, New York

Ambassador Young-mok Kim was appointed to the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York in August 2010. He has held many positions related to either Korea-U.S. bi-lateral relations or to the security of the Korean peninsula. He served as political secretary at the Korean Embassy in Washington D.C. and assumed the posts of Director, Deputy Director General of the North American Affairs Bureau of MOFA (1992 and 1998) and Director-General of the Office of Planning for the Light Water Reactor Project (1995). He served in New York as Minister at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York (1999-2002). He was then appointed as Deputy Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), in charge of policy toward North Korea and the nuclear power project implementation. He participated in a number of negotiations with North Korea on nuclear program, and he was one of the early members in designing the mission of Korea Energy Development Organization (2003-2005).