South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said on Wednesday that he believed Donald Trump would maintain the current US policy of containment towards North Korea.

"Trump has indicated that the greatest problem facing the world is the nuclear threat and members of his national security team hold the position that favors applying strong pressure against the North," Yun said in a meeting with members of parliament.

North Korea conducted its fourth and fifth nuclear tests in January and September, drawing widespread international condemnation.

In Latin America, those who managed to have some sleep are waking up to Trump's victory.

South of the border, in Mexico, newspapers are highlighting how the local currency is performing against the dollar. El Universal, external says the peso is on a "free fall". It adds the country “faces now one of the worst possible scenarios”, as Trump promised to build a wall with Mexico, review the North American Free Trade Agreement and deport millions of undocumented migrants from the US.  

Excelsior, external says Trump had built his rhetoric based on "xenophobia, prejudice and racial divide... strongly criticized around the world".

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In Brazil, newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, external cited his "surprising victory", and that "opinion polls were wrong again".

The daily Folha de S.Paulo, external said Trump, who had a "populist rhetoric", enjoyed support where people wanted to restore the “American dream".

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El Pais, external from Uruguay said Trump is the “hurricane” that promises to shake US politics.

In Argentina, El Clarin, external has a profile of a Trump, saying that his "aggressive and controversial speeches managed to gather support of unhappy Americans".

US papers and websites were overwhelmingly in favour of Hillary Clinton and perhaps did not believe Trump could win. Now the post-mortem begins. 

Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, a former public editor of the New York Times, published an excoriating piece this morning accusing the media of not listening.  

Read her full piece here, external.

Tessa Wong
BBC News, Singapore

The prime minister of Singapore, a key US ally in Asia, has congratulated Donald Trump and says his country will work with him. Lee Hsien Loong said, external: "Like the Brexit referendum in June, Mr Trump’s victory is part of a broader pattern in developed countries – reflecting a deep frustration with the way things are, and a strong wish to reassert a sense of identity, and somehow to change the status quo."Mr Trump recently singled out Singapore, external, along with China and India, as Asian countries "stealing jobs" from the US.

The BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie says:

"For the Chinese government, the challenge of a Trump presidency is twofold. Mr Trump has repeatedly told American voters he will get tough with China on trade, jobs, steel dumping and alleged currency manipulation. And at a time when Chinese economic growth is already fragile, Beijing will worry about the danger of shrinking access to such a vital market. 

"There are many things that Beijing dislikes about Hillary Clinton - her tough tone on human rights and the US strategic pivot to Asia for example. But Donald Trump is the great unknown. For all the campaign rhetoric, he has articulated no concrete policies on China and has no identifiable Asia team. He simply has no track record on any of the complex economic, geopolitical and military challenges of this region. And China hates the unpredictable."

Buzzfeed is keeping a rolling list of all the fake news stories popping up tonight.

No, rapper Lil Wayne has not cast his vote for Trump.

No, reality TV star Phil "Duck Commander" Robertson has not been single-handedly busting undocumented immigrants attempting to vote.

Take a look at all the fake news coming in by the minute, external

Earlier Geert Wilders, the leader of anti-Islam, anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party tweeted his reaction to Donald Trump taking the lead in electoral college votes:

He was joined in his praise for the Republican by France's National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who tweeted in French: "Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and the free American people!" 

A spokesman from the office of the prime minister of Malaysia has just told our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head this:

Tessa Wong
BBC News, Singapore

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Australian Foreign minister Julie Bishop has told reporters that her country will work with whoever becomes US president "and at this stage it would appear to be Donald Trump". 

She has called for "more US leadership and not less in the Asia-Pacific", where China has been seeking influence as well. "The United States is also the guarantor and defender of the rules-based international order that has underpinned so much of our economic and security issues and interests," she says.

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Former UKIP leadership candidate Raheem Kassam says Donald Trump will do “a great job" as president of the US..

Mr Kassam told BBC Radio 5 live's Nicky Campbell there were “lots of positives” about a Trump presidency, including a possible trade deal with the UK - since it voted to leave the EU.

India's prime minister Narendra Modi has tweeted a series of congratulatory posts to Donald Trump.

Barbara Plett Usher
BBC News, Washington

In the Rust Belt, it was the angry white working class. 

This region straddling upper North Eastern and Midwest states was once the seat of America’s powerful industrial sector, now more often defined by economic decline, blamed largely on free trade agreements. 

Voters responded to Mr Trump’s relentless calls for protectionist trade policies and his vows to bring back jobs from China and Mexico. 

The massive swing state of Ohio swung in his direction, so did the crucial, battleground state of Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton retained Illinois, but lost Wisconsin. 

It’s doubtful Mr Trump can fully deliver what he promised - there are other reasons for the industrial decay, like increased automation.  

But the verdict was the losers’ cry of economic pain, and their loss of faith that the current political system could fix it. 

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Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein appear to have siphoned off more votes from Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, according to AP analysis of exit poll data.   

A quarter of Johnson and Stein voters said they would have backed Clinton if they had to pick between the two major party candidates. 

Only about 15% of Johnson and Stein voters would have backed Trump - but most said they would have just stayed home if their only choices were Clinton and Trump. 

The Donald Trump phenomenon has long been compared to Brexit – not least by the man himself who told a rally just a few days ago that if he won, it would be “Brexit plus plus plus.”

Now an idea about a different sort of separation has caught fire on social media. Liberal-minded Californians are arguing that their heavily Democratic state should think about breaking away from the rest of the country.

Many of the messages point to the size of the state’s economy and argue that California could easily go it alone.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz has called Donald Trump's victory a "protest vote" along Brexit lines. 

He told Europe 1 radio that he felt "surprise" and "disappointment", and expected it to be "harder to work with than the previous administration". 

He called on the next US president to "respect the fundamental values of our sovereign nations."

Famed English historian Simon Schama had a few words about a Trump presidency.

He does not hold back as he voices concerns over Trump’s potential for fascism, how he can’t be controlled, and what the side effects will be.

Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC News

It was always going to be close in Florida – in the end there were less than two percentage points between Donald Trump’s victory here, and Hillary Clinton’s loss.

In the end it came down to which of the two candidates could rally their base in this demographically diverse state. And while Hillary Clinton did well with Hispanics and other minorities, Donald Trump won white voters with a margin of nearly 2 to 1. 

He took the white evangelical voter here, by a huge margin of 85%. Mr Trump spent a lot of time during this campaign in Florida – and it seems to have paid off. 

At a rally in Tampa at the weekend, he told thousands of his supporters that Florida was his second home –  the Sunshine state could now help deliver him a new one – the White House. 

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The Clinton campaign were pinning a lot of hope on Hispanic voters, amid speculation that they would turn out in huge numbers to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

Exit poll data suggests this did not really happen. 

Trump held on to roughly the same share of Hispanic voters as defeated Republican candidate Mitt Romney did four years ago - about 25% of them. 

He also received as many votes from black people as Romney - less than one in 10.

Clinton did better with Hispanic voters who were naturalized citizens, getting about 8 in 10 of their votes, the exit poll research suggests. 

She got about 6 in 10 Hispanic voters who were born US citizens. 

Trump was winning more than half of white voters, who make up 70% of the electorate.