South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday appointed new heads of the country’s intelligence service, unification ministry, and the Presidential Office of National Security, in a major reshuffle of top officials dealing with the North.

Moon plans to appoint Suh Hoon, former head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), as the new director of national security at the Blue House, spokesperson Kang Min-seok said.

Kang hailed Suh as “a foreign affairs and security expert coming from the NIS… who designed the Moon Jae-in administration’s diplomacy and security pledges.”

His contacts with high-level U.S. and Japanese officials, the spokesperson continued, “successfully