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Newly reelected U.S. President Donald Trump conducted a phone call with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol today to discuss the presence of North Korean troops in Russia. The president-elect and the South Korean leader reportedly spoke on the phone about South Korean issues with North Korea and scheduling a meeting for a future date. Discussing the phone call in a press briefing, Yoon said, according to France-24: "We agreed to meet in the near future … I believe there will be an opportunity to meet within this year." The South Korean president also discussed changing the country's previous policy...

South Korean police called off an attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol after a six-hour standoff with his security team. Yoon is under investigation for abusing his power and inciting an insurrection when he tried to impose martial law in early December. The move, although short-lived, led to a political crisis as Yoon was impeached by an opposition-led parliament and suspended from office... The operation started with a 20-strong team, but quickly multiplied to some 150 people. Even then, they were outnumbered. The military and security officers formed a human wall and used vehicles to block the arrest...

Summary Police officers in South Korea have arrived at President Yoon Suk Yeol's home in a bid to arrest him over his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December About 20 officers marched to the presidential residence at about 08:00 local time (23:00 GMT) with that number reinforced to about 80 an hour later, say BBC reporters at the scene Yoon's lawyer says they will challenge the "unlawful" arrest warrant and his presidential security forces are reportedly blocking the attempt to take him into custody A court issued the warrant earlier this week against Yoon after he refused to...

Had you have taken a direct flight from London to Seoul yesterday afternoon, by the time you would have landed you might have been none the wiser that anything had happened at all. At near midnight South Korean time, President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed martial law across the so-called “land of the morning calm.” Only six hours later it was subsequently, and pointedly, revoked. As South Korean citizens continue with their daily lives, the political establishment has once again entered a period of precarity. Yoon has scored a significant own goal; its implications do not end there. It is no understatement...

President Joe Biden grinned and stayed tight-lipped as reporters asked him Friday about what he was telling world leaders about the incoming Trump administration. Biden is in Lima, Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum and held a trilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. After that, he met with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte.

Multiple senior members of conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration and the head of his People Power Party (PPP) tendered their resignations on Thursday after vote counts confirmed that the left-wing Democratic Party decisively took over the National Assembly in Wednesday’s midterm election. The Democrats overcame a chaotic campaign season in which leader Lee Jae-myung survived a would-be assassin stabbing him in the neck. The day he was released from the hospital, three members of his party defected, protesting that Lee was running an authoritarian and corrupt “regime” within the party. Lee was in court on Tuesday for a hearing addressing...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, one of the few conservatives to win a presidency anywhere in the world this year, urged the United Nations in his speech on Tuesday to “stand together in solidarity” and defend freedom from wherever a threat may arise. Yoon’s remarks, his first address to the annual General Assembly debate, echoed much of what he told Koreans in his inauguration speech in May. On that occasion, he used the word “freedom” 35 times; to the United Nations, he said “freedom” a mere 18 times, according to the organization’s official English-language transcript. Unlike many other heads of...

Yoon Suk-yeol wanted to say goodbye to Joe Biden, but the American president passed by him as if he were not there. Good to know that all of Seoul got to see what we all here in the great USA witness daily.