South Korea's ruling party chief backs suspending President Yoon's powers, raising impeachment prospects
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South Korea's ruling party chief backs suspending President Yoon's powers, raising impeachment prospects

New Indian Express  

SEOUL: South Korea's governing party chief expressed support Friday for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law this week, in a bombshell reversal that makes Yoon's impeachment more likely. Han said he had received intelligence that Yoon had ordered the country's defense counterintelligence commander to arrest and detain unspecified key politicians based on accusations of "anti-state activities" when martial law was in force. Han earlier said he would work to defeat the impeachment motion even though he criticized Yoon's martial law declaration as "unconstitutional." Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon Ho promised the ministry's "active cooperation" with an investigation by prosecutors into the military's role in Yoon's martial law enforcement.

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