WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) -- A veteran U.S. diplomat in charge of nuclear talks with North Korea will quit his current job soon as he has been tapped as U.S. consul general in Hong Kong and Macau, a government official said Monday.
Clifford Hart has served as the Obama administration's special envoy to the six-way talks since June 2011. He has also worked as a key point of contact with North Korea's permanent mission to the United Nations, better known as the "New York channel."
"Career Foreign Service Officer Clifford A. Hart Jr. has been assigned as the next U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau," the State Department official told Yonhap News Agency on background. "Mr. Hart will begin his duties as Consul General later this year."
Hart's new position does not require Senate confirmation.
