South Korea Readies New Election as Constitutional Court Upholds Impeachment and President Yoon Suk-yeol Is Ousted
Second act in agonizing leadership crisis begins as left-leaning Minju Party praises the court’s ‘wise decision.’

SEOUL — South Korea opened the second act of its agonizing leadership crisis with the ouster of Yoon Suk-yeol as president on the day after President Trump imposed devastating tariffs that are sure to fuel the presidential ambitions of the opposition leader primarily responsible for Mr. Yoon’s downfall four months after his ill-conceived attempt at bringing Free Korea’s fledgling democracy under martial law.
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