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SEOUL, South Korea — The head of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s governing party on Friday signaled more openness to his removal as president for plunging the key U.S. ally into chaos with a short-lived declaration of martial law, reversing his position the day before an impeachment vote. Han Dong-hoon, leader of the conservative People Power Party (PPP), had earlier said he opposed impeaching Yoon because it would only create more turmoil. The PPP, which repudiated Yoon’s martial law declaration, had asked him to leave the party but said earlier that it opposed the impeachment motion. Six opposition parties had proposed impeaching Yoon over the martial law order, which banned political activity and censored the media. Blinken also reaffirmed the “ironclad” nature of the U.S. alliance with South Korea, which it views as an important bulwark against North Korea, China and Russia, and which hosts almost 30,000 American troops.
Persons: Yoon Suk, Han Dong, impeaching Yoon, Yoon, ” Han, Han, , Kim Yong, Lee Sang, ” Lee Jae, myung, Kim Seon, , Kwak Jong, Cho Tae, yul, Antony Blinken, Yonhap, Blinken, Kwak, Stella Kim, Jennifer Jett Organizations: South, People Power Party, PPP, South Korean, Democratic Party, Ministry of Defense, Getty, ROK, State Department, U.S, Korea Nuclear Consultative Group, National, Commission Locations: SEOUL, South Korea, Seoul, AFP, Republic of Korea, U.S, North Korea, China, Russia, Korea, Washington, South Korea’s, Hong Kong
Seoul, South Korea CNN —The leader of South Korea’s main opposition party thought the president’s late night martial law announcement was a deepfake when he first saw it, he told CNN on Thursday as his party now seeks to impeach the country’s leader. There’s no way that’s real,’” he said, referring to the term for fake audio and video created with artificial intelligence. Multiple members of Yoon’s party joined their political opponents in blocking the martial law decree during the remarkable late-night scenes inside parliament. “We are concerned and afraid that President Yoon might make another declaration of martial law at any time … since the last martial law failed,” she told CNN on Thursday. In November, he was indicted for personal misuse of public funds, and separately convicted and sentenced for violating election law.
Persons: Yoon Suk Yeol, , ’ ” Lee Jae, myung, , , , Yoon, Lee, Han Dong, hoon, Yoon’s, haven’t, Kang Sun, we’re Organizations: South Korea CNN, CNN, , Democratic Party, Power Party, National Assembly, Reuters Locations: Seoul, South Korea, Korea
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