{"id":39457,"date":"2024-12-26T01:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39457"},"modified":"2024-12-26T01:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:14:24","slug":"continued-clash-between-rival-factions-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/continued-clash-between-rival-factions-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued Clash Between Rival Factions in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The clash between rival factions in South Korea continued on Christmas Day (Wednesday) over the impeachment of acting President Han Duck-soo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Park Sung-jun, the deputy leader of the opposition Democratic Party, stated in a local radio program that his party would propose the impeachment of Han if he fails to appoint the three candidates for the Constitutional Court judges&#8217; positions immediately, even after the proposals are passed in a plenary session on Thursday, according to KBS World Radio on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier on Wednesday, the ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol refused to summon a joint investigation team to interrogate him about his declaration of martial law, which was short-lived, marking the second time he had refused to comply with the team&#8217;s request, according to Yonhap News Agency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yoon did not appear before the investigation body for corruption cases involving high-ranking officials in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, as requested by 10:00 AM local time as part of a joint investigation into his declaration of martial law on December 3rd.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yoon faces charges of being a leader of the insurrection and abusing power by declaring martial law during the joint investigation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He did not comply with the first summons issued by the investigative body last Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The court has set December 27 as the date to begin impeachment proceedings. It is unclear whether Yoon will attend the hearing in person.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yoon described his political opponents as &#8220;anti-state forces,&#8221; saying he declared martial law to protect the nation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between rival factions in South Korea continued on Christmas Day (Wednesday) over the impeachment of acting President Han Duck-soo. Park Sung-jun, the deputy leader of the opposition Democratic Party, stated in a local radio program that his party would propose the impeachment of Han if he fails to appoint the three candidates for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39458,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39457\/revisions\/39458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}