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The United States congratulated South Korea’s President-elect Yoon Seok-yul and said Washington looked forward to expanding its “ironclad” alliance with Seoul. On Wednesday, South Korea elected main opposition People Power Party candidate and ex-prosecutor Yoon Seok-yul as the country’s next leader after a bitterly contested and divisive presidential election. Yoon, a conservative, is expected to take a hardline approach toward North Korea and China. “The alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea, our economies and our people, is ironclad,” a State Department spokesperson told VOA, adding that President Joe Biden “looks forward to working with the new...
