South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been impeached and is facing a constitutional crisis. He has barricaded himself in his residence and his supporters are drawing parallels to the US political climate, hoping for support from Donald Trump.
Some in impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol ’s camp have said they hope Donald Trump will come to his aid after Washington inaugurationThe jailing of Park in 2018 made the apparently incorruptible Yoon a symbol of justice. So there is some irony in the fact that Yoon has himself been impeached and is now at the centre of South Korea ’s worst constitutional crisis in decades.
on December 3rd and has barricaded himself behind his security team at the newly fortified presidential residence in central Seoul.. A court on Tuesday extended the arrest warrant but police have declined to execute it, saying it should be done by anti-corruption investigators. ‘It’s like Wall Street in the 1980s’: consolidation of Westminster’s clerical rag trade raises the spirits of someElon Musk fights Battle of Britain on two fronts as he clashes with Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer Yoon’s adversaries have accused his presidential security service of acting like a private militia in a banana republic. His lawyers retort that investigators have no authority to detain him on charges of insurrection. The standoff between executive and judicial powers finds clear echoes in US politics, where supporters of Donald Trump have long accused his opponents in the courts and “deep state” of overstepping their authority. In a nod to this comparison, Yoon’s supporters have taken to rallying outside his residence waving US flags and “Stop the Steal” banners, adopting the slogan popularised by Trump who falsely claims he won the 2020 US presidential election. Some in Yoon’s camp have told the media they hope Trump, who has also repeatedly snubbed the courts andHe cited “anti-state forces” acting on behalf of Stalinist North Korea in his decree, calling South Korea’s parliament “a den of criminals ... planning the overthrow of our liberal democratic order,” and pledging to “eradicate unscrupulous pro-Pyongyang forces”
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