{"id":70381,"date":"2025-03-24T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/24\/han-duck-soo-south-korea-acting-president-impeachment-court"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:51:27","slug":"south-koreas-han-duck-soo-reinstated-as-acting-president-after-court-strikes-down-impeachment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70381","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Han Duck-soo reinstated as acting president after court strikes down impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling is the latest twist in months of political turmoil since suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s martial law declaration last year<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s constitutional court has ruled against the impeachment of the country\u2019s prime minister, Han Duck-soo, and to restore his position as acting president, marking the latest political twist in months of political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Han took over as acting president after the country\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/09\/impeached-south-korean-president-released-from-prison-ahead-of-insurrection-trial\">Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a>, was himself impeached over his short-lived declaration of martial law late last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/24\/han-duck-soo-south-korea-acting-president-impeachment-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling is the latest twist in months of political turmoil since suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s martial law declaration last yearSouth Korea\u2019s constitutional court has ruled against the impeachment of the country\u2019s prime minister, Han Duck-soo,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","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\/70381","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70381\/revisions\/70383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}