A TV debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates...The 'proxy war' between the Middle East and immigrants is fierce.

"Trump Is Hard to Trust" vs "Make the World Safer"
Walls vs Vance also clash on key issue immigration issues
Tough confrontation over economy, diplomacy, guns and abortion rights

[Anchor]
The U.S. presidential election, which is only five weeks away, has seen the vice-presidential candidates face off in virtually the last televised debate.

As the debate could affect the extremely tight presidential election, the two candidates engaged in an unyielding heated debate over the Middle East situation and border issues.

This is reporter Lee Seung-yoon.

[Reporter]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, the U.S. presidential vice presidential candidate, clashed in a televised debate.

From the first question, the Middle East issue, there was a heated debate.

[Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Tim Walz: We had a coalition of countries that stuck Iran's nuclear program, but former President Donald Trump stopped it and did nothing.]

{JD Vance / U.S. Republican candidate for vice president: Who has been vice president for the last three and a half years? That's Harris.

Governor Walz points out that it is too unstable to trust former President Trump in crisis in Middle East,
Member for Vance
claimed that he made the world safer during his tenure.

They also clashed over immigration, which has emerged as a major issue in the U.S. presidential election.

[JD Vance / U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate: It's time to stop. Trump's border policy needs to be reimposed, wall built, forced deportation reimposed.]

[Tim Walz / Democratic vice presidential candidate: We had the fairest and strictest legislation on immigration. Both parties participated in this. Let the bill pass. Harris will approve it.]

The two candidates were also at odds over economic and foreign policy, gun control and abortion rights.

The one-time vice presidential debate before the presidential election does not have a significant impact on the election, but the presidential race is so close that the two candidates clashed in all fields, and the heat was hot.

U.S. media said Walz made some slip-ups and Vance stepped in during his opponent's remarks and engaged in a fierce proxy war, but refrained from smearing and conducted policy-oriented discussions.

I'm YTN's Lee Seungyoon.


Video editing: Lim Hyun-chul
Screen Source: CBS