Foreign Ministry Reorganizes Units, Downsizes Korean Peninsula Office

The foreign ministry on Tuesday reorganized its units to enhance diplomatic strategies and intelligence gathering.

The ministry created a new office, tentatively named the Office of Diplomatic Strategy and Intelligence, by adding an intelligence analysis unit and others to the Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs.

The new office has four units — strategy and policy planning, diplomatic intelligence, Korean Peninsula policy and international security bureaus.

The Korean Peninsula policy unit will take over the work of the Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, which handles North Korea affairs. The existing Korean Peninsula office, which was a vice ministerial organization, has been downsized to a director-level organization under the shakeup. 

With the reorganization, the ministry aims to pursue the government’s diplomatic policy in a more agile and refined way to respond to complex global crises and changes in the geopolitical environment.