The election of Park Won-soon as the new mayor of Seoul projects significant ramifications for South Korea’s future policy towards the United States and North Korea beyond 2012, as it will impact the two big elections next year that will vote in a new president and a national legislature.
Sustaining a strong U.S.-Korea alliance and a stern ``principled North Korea policy” in the face of a rising China would be contingent upon whether there will be a conservative administration that will succeed the policies of President Lee Myung-bak.
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