{"id":68524,"date":"2024-12-26T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/south-korea-opposition-moves-to-impeach-acting-president-in-new-political-twist"},"modified":"2024-12-26T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:37:03","slug":"south-korea-opposition-moves-to-impeach-acting-president-in-new-political-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68524","title":{"rendered":"South Korea opposition moves to impeach acting president in new political twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If motion is successful, it would be country\u2019s second impeachment of a head of state in less than two weeks<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s opposition has said it has filed an impeachment motion against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/16\/who-is-han-duck-soo-south-korea-acting-president-career-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-yoon-suk-yeol\">acting president, Han Duck-soo<\/a>, in an escalating row over the composition of the constitutional court which will decide whether to remove his predecessor from office.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea fell into a political crisis when President Yoon Suk Yeol, currently suspended, declared martial law on 3 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/south-korea-opposition-moves-to-impeach-acting-president-in-new-political-twist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If motion is successful, it would be country\u2019s second impeachment of a head of state in less than two weeksSouth Korea\u2019s opposition has said it has filed an impeachment motion against the acting president, Han Duck-soo, in an escalating row over the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-68524","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\/68524","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68524\/revisions\/68525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}