{"id":222453,"date":"2019-07-11T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222453"},"modified":"2019-07-11T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T04:36:31","slug":"white-house-names-sung-kim-as-next-us-envoy-to-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/11\/white-house-names-sung-kim-as-next-us-envoy-to-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"White House names Sung Kim as next US envoy to Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154022\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sung_Kim_official_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154022\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sung_Kim_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sung_Kim_official_photo.jpg 347w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sung_Kim_official_photo-768x958.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Ambassador Kim&#8217;s extensive history of public service at the Department of State, including as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,&#8221; the White House said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=63071666\">Photo By United States Department of State, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim is eyed as the next American top diplomat to Indonesia, the White House announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to nominate Kim as the US Ambassador to Jakarta comes as the envoy nears the end of his tour of duty in the Philippines this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ambassador Kim&#8217;s extensive history of public service at the Department of State, including as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,&#8221; the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, doctor of jurisprudence degree from Loyola University Law School, and Masters of Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>Two years into his post as the US top diplomat in Manila, Kim received the Presidential Meritorious Honor Award in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Kim assumed his post in the Philippines last December 2016, replacing Philip Goldberg, who served from 2013 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement did not mention who will replace Kim as the next US envoy in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the US Embassy in Manila denied rumors that Kim would be replaced by Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary of the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim is eyed as the next American top diplomat to Indonesia, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-news-w","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222454,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222453\/revisions\/222454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}