US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to meet his South Korean counterpart during a visit to Seoul next week AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit South Korea for talks next week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday, with the country mired in political turmoil as its impeached president resists arrest. South … Read more
SEOUL: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit South Korea for talks next week, the two countries announced on Friday (Jan 3), with Seoul mired in political turmoil as its impeached president resists arrest. Blinken, on what will likely be his last international trip before president-elect Donald Trump’s return, will also visit Japan and … Read more
WHO ARE THE SOLDIERS The Capital Defence Command “is a unit similar to the United Kingdom’s Royal Guard”, Kim Ki-ho, a former army colonel who teaches at Seoul Christian University, told AFP. The soldiers have a “strict chain of command”, he said, and would have had to obey the PSS and not listen to police … Read more
The issue has become a major talking point for Yoon supporters who say his martial law declaration was justified, and now hope their concerns will resonate with Trump. “He could really help President Yoon,” said university professor Lee Ho-chung, adding that the audience for his English “Stop The Steal” poster was both Americans and Koreans. … Read more
SEOUL: Rival camps of South Korean protesters faced off in chaotic scenes outside the presidential compound on Thursday (Jan 2), some trying to protect the impeached president inside from arrest, as others called for his immediate detention. President Yoon Suk Yeol was last month impeached by lawmakers over his ill-fated martial law declaration and investigators … Read more
REFUSED QUESTIONING Discussions between prosecutors and police are taking place in the background of a political crisis that initially saw the country briefly lurch back to the dark days of military rule. But the martial law order – which he said was aimed at eliminating “anti-state elements” – only lasted a few hours. Heavily armed … Read more
SEOUL: South Korean investigators said on Wednesday (Jan 1) they would execute an arrest warrant for Yoon Suk Yeol by the deadline on Jan 6, as the impeached leader’s supporters rallied outside his residence. Supporters and opponents of Yoon, who was suspended from office by lawmakers over his attempt to subvert civilian rule last month, have … Read more
The aides had repeatedly expressed their intent to step down in the wake of Yoon’s botched attempt to declare martial law on Dec 3, but their resignations have not been accepted, said a presidential official, who declined to be identified owing to political sensitivities. The official said the senior secretaries have been assisting Choi since … Read more
PODGORICA, Montenegro: Montenegro on Tuesday (Dec 31) extradited to the United States the South Korean cryptocurrency specialist Do Kwon, who is also wanted by Seoul over his firm’s multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy, officials said. Do Kwon was “handed over to the competent law enforcement authorities of the United States of America and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation … Read more
A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 taking off from Osaka Kansai airport. Fabrizio Gandolfo | Lightrocket | Getty Images Accident investigators are trying to figure out what caused a Jeju Air flight to belly-land without its landing gear down at Muan International Airport in southwestern South Korea, killing all but two of the 181 people on … Read more
