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American Mormon missionary (born 1942)
Robert R. "Bob" King
(born June 8, 1942) is an American diplomat. He was nominated in September 2009 by President
Barack Obama
and confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2009, to serve as United States special envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, an ambassadorial ranked position.
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King is a native of Wyoming. King holds a bachelor's degree from
Brigham Young University
and a Ph.D. from
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at
Tufts University
. He worked for 24 years as the chief of staff to congressman
Tom Lantos
(along with his wife Kay) and at the same time Democratic Staff Director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (2001?2009). Earlier he was Assistant Director of Research at
Radio Free Europe
in Munich, Germany, and as a
White House Fellow
(National Security staff), a member of the National Security Council Staff in the
Carter Administration
.
While working for Radio Free Europe in Germany, he proposed returning the
Holy Crown of Hungary
to Hungary to help improve relations with that nation in a mock memo as part of his application to work in a White House Fellow for the Carter Administration. Upon being accepted, doing so became part of his responsibilities.
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King is the author of five books and some 40 articles on international relations topics.
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King received the Knight’s Cross
Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
. He is a
Latter-day Saint
and served from 1961 to 1963 as a
missionary
in the New England
Mission
of the
LDS Church
.
King and his wife Kay are the parents of three children. He is also a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
.
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