Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party won a razor-thin victory over the ruling Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung in South Korea’s presidential election March 9. Analysts say Yoon will build closer ties with the United States and Japan, take a more hawkish view of North Korea and show less deference toward the North’s chief ally, China – stances that reflect a souring of public opinion in the South toward the communist regimes of Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.
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