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essay on ''why i want to become indian ambassador to south korea
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Answer 1

Ambassadors of a country have a pretty exciting life if one sees it from the outside. According to us normal people, Ambassadors of the country get to travel to beautiful and exotic locations, stay there and enjoy various amenities that the normal citizens do not.

But there are a few places that no matter what is being offered, people simply do not want to go there, one of them being North Korea. After getting no officially eligible volunteers for the post of Ambassador of India to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in 2015 PM Modi appointed Shrimati Jasminder Kasturia, a veteran Chinese interpreter.

What Do We Know About Smt. Jasminder Kasturia?

Ms. Jasminder Kasturia prior to being the Ambassador of India in North Korea was a Director in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in Delhi.

Ms. Kasturia studied Chinese Language and Literature from School of Languages for her post-graduation and did her M.Phil from the Center of East Asian studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

For a brief while, Ms. Kasturia also attended the Beijing Language and Culture, University in Beijing, PRC.

She joined the MEA sector of the Government of India in February of 1988 and since then has had a pretty impressive career graph.



She has been spoken highly of, as per The Telegraph by diplomats of the IFS ‘A’ cadre, an elite group of less than 20 people that are picked from the toppers of the civil services examinations and even the academicians she has worked with previously.

But do you know what makes her appointment as Ambassador so interesting?

It is the fact that she is not even among the IFS ‘B’ cadre who usually comprise of stenographers, reserve diplomats and more who are promoted to the top tier so that they can be eligible for the position of Ambassador.

Ms. Kasturia, in fact, belongs to the ‘interpreter cadre’ who consist of the group that usually work with the main IFS officers to translate official documents and travel abroad with important political leaders on official assignments.