South Korea opposition leader Lee says impeaching Yoon best way to restore order
- 13-Dec-2024
Opposition leader in South Korea Lee Jae-myung said on Friday the best way to restore order in the country is to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, a day ahead of a planned parliamentary vote over Yoon’s short-lived imposition of martial law. Yoon’s move to impose military rule on Dec. 3 was rescinded barely six hours […]
South Korean President Yoon vows to ‘fight to the end’
- 12-Dec-2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday lashed out at his political opponents as “anti-state forces”, said North Korea has hacked the country’s elections and defended his short-lived martial law order as a legal move to protect democracy. Yoon said the opposition was “dancing the sword dance of madness” by trying to drag a […]
South Korea’s martial law crisis makes headlines in North Korea for first time
- 11-Dec-2024
For the first time since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempt to impose martial law, North Korean official media KCNA reported on South Korea’s ongoing political unrest on Wednesday. A major United States (US) ally and Asia’s fourth-largest economy were thrown into a constitutional crisis by last week’s unexpected martial law declaration, which sent shockwaves across […]