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SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 For decades,\u00a0South Korea<\/a>\u00a0was an example of a vibrant democracy and economy. On Friday,\u00a0the key United States ally<\/a>\u00a0was in uncharted territory when legislators voted to impeach the acting president less than two weeks after\u00a0ousting the country\u2019s previous leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ruling People\u2019s Power Party surrounded the speaker\u2019s podium following the vote to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, chanting that the vote was invalid and accusing parliament of committing \u201ctyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n On Dec. 14,\u00a0President Yoon Suk Yeol was himself impeached<\/a>\u00a0after attempting to declare martial law. Opinion polls conducted\u00a0after Yoon\u2019s bid to impose military rule\u00a0<\/a>showed overwhelming\u00a0public support for his removal.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}READ HERE:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/south-korea-president-impeached-martial-law-interim-rcna185519<\/a><\/h3>\n
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