SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court could soon rule on whether to dismiss or reinstate impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol. That doesn’t mean the political crisis caused by Yoon’s short-lived imposition of martial law is over.
South Korea’s already-severe political divide between conservatives and liberals will likely intensify as Seoul grapples with major foreign policy challenges like U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy platform and North Korea’s increasing military cooperation with Russia.
Here’s what to expect about the court’s likely impending verdict on Yoon’s Dec. 3 martial law decree that is testing South Korea’s democracy.
What might the court do?
The Constitutional Court has
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