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![Armored vehicles of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, arrives at Pohang, North Gyeongsang, on Saturday. According to the U.S. Defense Department on Monday, the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division has been assigned as the next rotational force. The eight-wheel Stryker combat vehicle can carry a two to four-man crew and nine armed infantrymen and can reach speeds of 100 kilometer per hour (62 miles per hour). [DEFENSE VISUAL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVICE]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11142238.jpg?imageId=11142238&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung criticizing President Yoon Seok Yul and the Washington Declaration at the Natioanl Assembly in Yeouido on Thursday. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11754567.jpg?imageId=11754567&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![President Yoon Suk Yeol bows to Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams, center, and retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett, left, before awarding the Taegeuk Order of Military Merit, the highest military order, during a luncheon celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Korea-U.S. alliance at a hotel in Washington on Tuesday. The late Baldomero Lopez, a first lieutenant who served in the Marine Corps, was also awarded the Taegeuk Order of Military Merit posthumously. His nephew received the order on behalf of the late Lopez. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10530944.jpg?imageId=10530944&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)