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The United Nations General Assembly has appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next UN secretary general.

Ban, who was approved by acclamation Friday for a five-year term, won't officially take over the post until Jan. 1, when outgoing Secretary General Kofi Annan's second five-year term expires.

Ban, 62, has said he would work to resolve the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program after it said it conducted an unprecedented atomic test.

Diplomats had generally agreed the next secretary general should come from Asia because of a tradition that the post rotate among regions. The last Asian to hold the post was Burma's U Thant, who served from 1961 to 1971.

Born in 1944, Ban has an international relations degree from Seoul National University and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard. He had served at South Korea's Washington embassy and also held a post as the director-general of American affairs.

He has a 30-year history at the United Nations. He has worked for South Korea at the United Nations headquarters in New York and more recently served as the chef du cabinet to the president of the General Assembly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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