In contrast with Moon's presidency and its conciliatory approach to North Korea, new President Yoon Suk-yeol has all of his diplomatic and intelligence networks working to strengthen Seoul's influence over Pyongyang in Europe.
The elite Washington club, once a haunt for senior CIA officials, announced the private investigator's election only months after he was implicated in the case of Eden Knight, who reportedly committed suicide soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia.
As well as working to protect the interests of entrepreneurs, Rustam Jursunov is serving as a go-between for proposed legislation on ill-gotten assets and local business leaders, starting with energy magnate Timur Kulibayev.
At the head of several firms, the flourishing businessman was recently in the Emirates to present his firm XYZ Elements's open source intelligence technologies. XYZ in one of a number of companies owned by Roy Shloman operating in different intelligence fields.