President Park Geun-hye on Friday appointed new deputy chiefs of the National Intelligence Service.

Kim Jin-sub, the intelligence secretary at the presidential National Security Office, was promoted to the first deputy director in charge of overseas intelligence. Prior to entering Cheong Wa Dae in late 2014, he served as director-general for North Korea affairs at the NIS.

Park also picked Choi Yoon-soo, deputy head of the Busan High Prosecutors’ Office, as the second deputy director responsible for domestic intelligence. He has worked at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office and the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s anti-corruption department.

“Kim fits the job given his ample knowledge and competence in national security in this grave period faced with increasingly sever North Korean threats. Choi is expected to faithfully fulfill his duty with his lucid morality for public service and expertise in intelligence analysis and investigations such as involving leak of industrial secrets,” Kim Sung-woo, the senior presidential press secretary, told reporters.

By Shin Hyon-hee (heeshin@heraldcorp.com)