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SEOUL: South Korea 's conservative former top prosecutor, who has called for a stronger US security guarantee to neutralize North Korean nuclear threats, won the main opposition party's hotly contested nomination for next March's presidential election on Friday. Recent opinion surveys showed Yoon Suk Yeol would be locked in a tight race with Lee Jae-myung, the outspoken liberal ruling party candidate, who has vowed to take an appeasement policy on North Korea and adopt pragmatic diplomacy between Washington and Beijing. The close race between the two candidates will likely further intensify severe domestic polarization in South Korea at a time...
