OT:Impeachment in South Korea Has Cost Washington a Staunch Ally

[tjscott0]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/world/asia/south-korea-us-diplomacy.html

President Yoon Suk Yeol shifted his country closer to Washington and stood up to Beijing. But that foreign policy could be recalibrated in the future.

Now​, as he is locked out of power following his impeachment, his foreign policy — and ​Washington’s painstaking alliance-building in Northeast Asia —​ faces the prospect of unraveling. Mr. Yoon was not impeached for his foreign policy. But his diplomatic agenda​ — his greatest legacy​ — could be one of the biggest casualties of his downfall.

[steve203]

If Korea was the typical Latin American banana republic, the US would have organized a coup to keep the country in line.

Steve

[Hawkwin]

I have to state that I really prefer SKs method of impeachment over our own:

I think their Constitutional Court is the equivalent of our SCOTUS.