Heavy traffic disruptions are expected in central Seoul over the weekend as protesters both for and against the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol are expected to gather.
Otherwise, they can be be dismissed as a partisan attack, as we saw in Trump's two previous impeachments. The recent impeachment of the South Korean president was supported by his own political party. Richard Nixon resigned after the top leaders of his ...
House Oversight Chair James Comer is requesting President-elect Trump’s DOJ investigate and prosecute President Biden’s brother, James Biden, for alleged false statements to Congress.
War, weak growth, and policy uncertainty around Trump’s return already threaten the Korean economy. An extended political crisis will make things worse.
He has been incarcerated for the past week, while investigators probe his botched attempt to impose martial law in early December.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denied wrongdoing as he branded himself as a firm believer in democracy in his first appearance at an impeachment trial looking into his shocking and brief imposition of martial law last month.
South Korea's Constitutional Court adjourned the opening session of the impeachment trial of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol within minutes on Tuesday, after the embattled leader did not attend court.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended on Tuesday a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial where the detained leader may get a chance to argue his case or answer questions over his short-lived bid to impose martial law.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post
South Korea’s slide into constitutional chaos echoes dysfunction in the U.S.—and promises headaches for Washington.
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.