{"id":70767,"date":"2025-04-04T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/04\/yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-impeachment-verdict-live-updates-blog"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:20:04","slug":"celebrations-as-presidents-impeachment-is-upheld-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70767","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations as president\u2019s impeachment is upheld \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removed president says he is \u2018very sorry\u2019 to have not lived up to expectations. This blog is now closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/04\/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-verdict-results-removal\">Full report: South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Yoon<\/strong> violated his duty as South Korean commander-in-chief by mobilising troops, says <strong>Justice Moon<\/strong>, the constitutional court\u2019s acting president says. The president\u2019s martial law declarations violated parliament\u2019s rights, he says as the ruling continues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justice Moon<\/strong> says it is difficult to see the South Korean opposition\u2019s actions as a severe national crisis to justify <strong>Yoon Suk Yeol<\/strong>\u2019s martial law declaration, Reuters is reporting as he continues delivering the ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/04\/yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-impeachment-verdict-live-updates-blog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removed president says he is \u2018very sorry\u2019 to have not lived up to expectations. This blog is now closedFull report: South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from officeYoon violated his duty as South Korean commander-in-chief by mobilising troops, s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"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-70767","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\/70767","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\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70768,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions\/70768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}