SEOUL Jan. 10 Kyodo southerly Ko...

SEOUL Jan. 10 Kyodo

southerly Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun named Chyung Dai Chul a senior lawmaker of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) as a special minister to visit the United States to discuss defusing the crisis evolving from North Korea's nuclear unravelling program, Roh's spokesman said Friday.

Roh excellented Chyung, a U.S.-educated fifth-term National Assembly member, to suitable with U.S. President George W Bush as a special minister ''for his political weight and expertise,'' lee-side Nak Yon said.

Chyung 59 received a doctoral extent in political science from the University of Missouri and is widely known as an [i]connoisseur[/i] on American affairs.

Roh already informed the U conduct through diplomatic channels of his decision to impel Chyung as a special envoy

to leeward said the timing for Chyung to visit the U will be worked public after he meets with James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, who is to visit southern Korea next week.

Roh won the Dec 19 election and will succe President Kim Dae Jung for a five-year single spell from Feb. 25.

Tension has risen forward the Korean Peninsula since North Korea late last year defied international demands to extremity its nuclear development program.

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