Kim Replaces 5 Secretaries, Appoints Lim Special Adviser

President Kim Dae-jung completed five days of political overhaul by naming five new presidential secretaries.

And just four days before Saturday's resumption of inter-Korean dialogue, he named the ousted unification minister, Lim Dong-won, as special adviser to the president on foreign policy, national security and unification. It was Mr. Lim's repudiation by the National Assembly that broke the governing coalition and triggered President Kim's shakeup.

In Tuesday's appointments, Shin Kwang-ok, senior secretary for civil affairs, and the deputy justice minister Kim Hak-jae swapped offices. Presidential spokesman Park Joon-young and Oh Hong-keun, minister of information and government spokes-man, swapped offices.

Lew Seon-ho, deputy governor for political affairs in the Kyonggi provincial government, becomes senior secretary for political affairs. Cho Young-dal, a professor at Seoul National University, was named senior secretary for education and culture to re-place Chung Soon-taek.

Chung Tae-ik, head of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security, will replace Kim Ha-joong as senior secretary for foreign policy and national security. He in turn becomes Seoul's ambassador to China, a post left vacant when the president tapped the former ambassador, Hong Soon-young, to become unification minister.

"The president has wrapped up the overhaul of the government, party and Blue House," the presidential spokesman, Park Joon-young, said. "The appointments focused on recruiting reformist-minded figures with ex-pertise to continue the policy of inter-Korean reconciliation and po-litical reform."

In replacing five of his Blue House secretaries, rather than the expected two or three, Mr. Kim appeared to acknowledge calls from his party for new figures in core leadership positions. But Tuesday's appointments completed the placement of trusted aides, mostly from the Donggyo-dong faction, in key slots of party, government and Blue House.

"We can see the president's design in the appointments of Party Chairman Han Kwang-ok, chief special aide to the party president, Chung Kyun-hwan, and senior secretary Park Jie-won for policy and planning," a party insider said.

Sunday's appointment of a former professor, Lee Sang-joo, who has no inside connections to the Blue House chief of staff, is likely to bolster Mr. Park's role in the new power map.

President Kim named Representative Kim Myung-sup as secretary general of the party, replacing Park Sang-kyu, and Representative Kang Hyun-wook as chief policymaker, replacing Lee Hai-chan.

by Kim Jin-kook