U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a former Korean American congresswoman as the United States' top envoy to South Korea, a presidential nomination document showed Monday.
Trump tapped Michelle Park Steel, a former two-term Republican lawmaker from California, as the U.S. ambassador to South Korea -- a post that has been left vacant since former Ambassador Philip Goldberg left South Korea in January last year.
The nomination came as Seoul and Washington face a series of joint tasks, including "modernizing" the bilateral alliance, addressing trade and investment issues, and cooperating on regional and global challenges, including North Korean threats and the Middle East conflict.
If confirmed by the Senate, Steel is expected to help enhance communication between the two allies following more than a yearlong vacancy in the ambassadorial post.
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