{"id":68124,"date":"2024-12-04T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-12-05T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:56:15","slug":"south-koreas-president-yoon-suk-yeol-faces-calls-to-resign-after-martial-law-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68124","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decades<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-crisis-live-blog-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-calls\">South Korea crisis: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-what-comes-next-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">Explainer: what happened and what comes next?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korean opposition parties have formally submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Thursday, lawmakers presented to parliament an impeachment motion alleging that Yoon \u201cgravely and extensively violated the constitution and the law\u201d and accuses him of imposing martial law \u201cwith the unconstitutional and illegal intent to evade imminent investigations&#8230; into alleged illegal acts involving himself and his family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decadesSouth Korea crisis: live updatesExplainer: what happened and what comes next?South Korean opposition parties ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68158,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68124\/revisions\/68158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}