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SEOUL: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet top South Korean political leaders on Thursday, a day after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending democracy on the self-governing island despite vehement protests from China. Pelosi and other members of Congress flew to South Korea on Wednesday evening as part of their Asian tour that had already taken them to Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. After South Korea, they will travel to Japan. Later in the day, Pelosi planned to visit an inter-Korean border area that is jointly controlled by the American-led UN Command...
