{"id":69049,"date":"2025-01-21T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-denies-ordering-troops-drag-out-lawmakers"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:41:23","slug":"south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeol-denies-ordering-troops-to-drag-out-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69049","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering troops to \u2018drag out\u2019 lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached president appears in constitutional court following last month\u2019s short-lived martial law order<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has denied ordering troops to \u201cdrag out\u201d lawmakers from the country\u2019s parliament to prevent them from overturning his short-lived declaration of martial law last month.<\/p>\n<p>In his first appearance at the constitutional court, which will decide whether to uphold his impeachment, Yoon replied \u201cno\u201d when asked by a judge whether he had ordered the military to remove lawmakers from the national assembly building.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-denies-ordering-troops-drag-out-lawmakers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached president appears in constitutional court following last month\u2019s short-lived martial law orderSouth Korea\u2019s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has denied ordering troops to \u201cdrag out\u201d lawmakers from the country\u2019s parliament to prevent them fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69049","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69049\/revisions\/69050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}