A prominent North Korean defector was named as the new head of the presidential advisory council on unification, the presidential office said Thursday.President Yoon Suk Yeol has tapped Tae Yong-ho, a former North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain, as the secretary general for the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, chief of staff Chung Jin-suk said during a press briefing.Tae is the first North Korean defector to serve in the deputy ministerial post since the council was established in 1980.Tae fled to South Korea in 2016 in a high-profile defection by a ranking North Korean diplomat. He was elected in the affluent district of Gangnam in Seoul in 2020 as a lawmaker of the ruling People Power Party, but failed to secure a second term in the April parliamentary elections.Source: Yonhap News Agency