WASHINGTON–The Trump administration plans to nominate Admiral Harry Harris to fill the long-vacant post of ambassador to South Korea, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. As head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Harris had already been nominated early in the year to be the next U.S. ambassador to Australia.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, had asked Harris to take the key post in Seoul, which has been vacant since Trump took office in January last year, a source with knowledge of the situation said.
