Update: 7:54am PST, December 14, 2024—According to the Associated Press, South Korean President Yoon has been impeached by the National Assembly. The powers of the Presidency have been transferred to Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo. The Constitutional Court will have 180 days to rule on Yoon’s impeachment.
Read MoreSouth Koreans and international observers are struggling to remember a time when tension on the Korean Peninsula has been higher. We have seen North Korea sending trash balloons into South Korea, including over the Blue House, so in response, Seoul resumed loudspeaker broadcasts towards the North. In recent days, we have even seen North Korea send over 7,000 troops to reinforce Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
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