Earlier today, parliament backed the appointment of former intelligence chief B.Khurts as Mongolia’s Ambassador to South Korea.

During a full session on 15 December,  Parliament discussed B.Khurts’s appointment which has been delayed for a month because of a conflict between MPs. B.Khurts, who until a few days previously had been Mongolia’s chief spymaster, was appointed the country’s ambassador to the Republic of Korea by 90 percent of the MPs. This appeared a convenient solution, as current Ambassador B.Ganbold had just completed his tour of duty and the post needed to be filled.

B.Khurts was born in 1969. He worked as an employee of the General Intelligence Agency from 2000-2002, as first secretary at the Mongolian Embassy in Hungary from 2002-2004, as first secretary at the Mongolian Embassy in Turkey in 2004-2005, as chief of the General Intelligence Agency from 2005-2006, representative of MIAT in Seoul from 2006-2009, and as chief of the of the Mongolian National Security Agency since 2009.