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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam S.Korea names new PM in big reshuffle AFP - 48 minutes ago Send IM Story Print S.Korea names new PM in big reshuffle SEOUL (AFP) - – South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak Sunday named a former provincial governor as new prime minister, and replaced seven other ministers in the biggest cabinet reshuffle since he took power in early 2008. But Lee kept his current foreign, defence and unification ministers in place amid continuing high tensions with North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship. Kim Tae-Ho, 47, will be the country's youngest prime minister for almost 40 years if parliament confirms his nomination. Lee, who is halfway through his single five-year term of office, also announced new ministers for education (Lee Ju-Ho); culture (Shin Jae-Min); agriculture (Yoo Jeong-Bok); the knowledge economy ministry (Lee Jae-Hoon); health (Chin Soo-Hee); labour (Bahk Jae-Wan) and special affairs (Lee Jae-Oh). The shake-up "is aimed at solidifying the keynote of moderate pragmatism-oriented policy based on communication and integrity", presidential spokesman Hong Sang-Pyo said. He said Kim, former governor of South Gyeongsang province in the southeast, was expected to play a key role in improving communications with the younger generation. The reshuffle accepts reform demands expressed in June 2 local elections and July 28 by-elections, Hong said. Lee's conservative ruling Grand National Party suffered a major defeat in June's local elections, although it bounced back by unexpectedly winning five of eight parliamentary by-elections on July 28. Previous prime minister Chung Un-Chan resigned late last month following a separate political setback, when the government failed to win parliamentary approval for a key development project. Kim Kyung-Min, a politics professor at Seoul's Hanyang University, said the fact that Lee kept his strategically important ministers in place indicates no change in his North Korea policies. "Given the hostile relations between Seoul and Pyongyang and the voter sentiment in South Korea that is not favourable to the North, I don't think the situation will change anytime soon," he told AFP. Lee announced a partial trade cut-off and other reprisals against the North after international investigators concluded that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed a South Korean corvette near the disputed Yellow Sea border in March. The North vehemently denies carrying out the attack which killed 46 sailors. It has threatened possible retaliation for an ongoing major South Korean anti-submarine exercise. "I think the current administration learned the lesson the hard way that they need more communication with young voters after the June local elections," said Kim, the Hanyang professor. "Naming Kim as prime minister shows a determination to forge closer relations with young Koreans." The analyst said many of the new ministers were former vice ministers of the ministries which they now head, "meaning the reshuffle put much more emphasis on actual experience and expertise than political considerations". Lee's new agriculture minister Yoo Jeong-Bok is a supporter of his chief political rival in the ruling party rival Park Geun-Hye, apparently indicating an attempt to mend fences. The president named Lee Jae-Oh, one of his closest aides, as minister for special affairs -- tasked with dealing with political affairs and relations with North Korea. Lee Jae-Oh was promoted just 11 days after securing victory in the July 28 by-elections. 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