How Bodyguards Are Keeping South Korea’s Leader From Detention
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s security service stopped an effort to detain him on insurrection charges and has vowed to do so ...
South Korean court clears government, adoption agency of liability in adoptee’s deportation from US
A South Korean court has cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a Korean man ...
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North Korea breaks silence on 'insane' martial law effort in 'dictatorship' South Korea
An article published by the state news agency KCNA described “social unrest” in South Korea, where Yoon’s People Power Party says he has been effectively suspended from duty, raising ...
A plane crash in Kazakhstan, another impeachment in South Korea and a protest against an EU law – the world this week
From 38 people being killed in an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crash and Qatar threatening to halt gas exports to the EU to ...
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South Korea says it detects signs of North Korea preparing more troops, drones for Russia
such as launching intercontinental ballistic missiles and conducting a nuclear test to enhance its negotiating power with the U.S.," the JCS official said. On Monday, South Korea's acting ...
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South Korea's political turmoil could drag on for months as a stubborn Yoon clings to power
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers an address to the nation at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea on Dec 12 ... The ruling People Power Party (PPP) skipped the meeting.
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In South Korea’s ‘power vacuum’, foreign policy uncertainty abounds
On Saturday, Yoon was impeached by South Korea’s parliament over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law that plunged the country into its worst political turmoil in years. If the ...
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South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol impeached: What happens to all the perks?
SEOUL -In South Korea, former presidents are entitled ... This means Mr Yoon is likely to receive a civil servant pension,” the attorney told The Korea Herald. Mr Yoon, before becoming president ...
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South Korea at a crossroads after president is impeached – here’s what will happen next
South Korea’s National Assembly passed an impeachment ... 12 votes in favour came from Yoon’s conservative ruling People Power party. The vote was the second impeachment attempt since Yoon ...
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Martial law fiasco casts doubt over South Korea's nuclear power push
South Korea’s embrace of nuclear energy has been thrown into doubt as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment case raises the possibility of the opposition coming to power and overhauling the ...
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Who is Kim Keon-hee, described as South Korea’s ‘Lady Macbeth’?
In South Korea’s April parliamentary elections, opposition parties including the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) defeated Yoon’s People Power Party (PPP) and took control of the National Assembly.
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Martial Law Fiasco Casts Doubt Over Korea's Nuclear Power Push
(Bloomberg) — South Korea’s embrace of nuclear energy has been thrown into doubt as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment case raises the possibility of the opposition coming to power and overhauling ...