South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

[yuiyoshida]

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court ousted the president on Friday, a first in the nation’s history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.

Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.

Park Geun-hye, the nation’s first female president and the daughter of the Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, had been an icon of the conservative establishment that joined Washington in pressing for a hard line against North Korea’s nuclear provocations.

Now, her downfall is expected to shift South Korean politics to the opposition, whose leaders want more engagement with North Korea and are wary of a major confrontation in the region. They say they will re-examine the country’s joint strategy on North Korea with the United States and defuse tensions with China, which has sounded alarms about the growing American military footprint in Asia.

Ms. Park’s powers were suspended in December after a legislative impeachment vote, though she continued to live in the presidential Blue House, largely alone and hidden from public view, while awaiting the decision by the Constitutional Court. The house had been her childhood home: She first moved in at the age of 9 and left it nearly two decades later after her mother and father were assassinated in separate episodes.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/asia/park-geun-hye-impeached-south-korea.html?_r=1

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

1. This will happen to you too Donnie boy.

[dalton99a]

2. And Samsung's boss is in jail.

Awesome.

[yuiyoshida]

3. You know it really would not bother me seeing

Trump taken away in handcuffs, but for that to happen, he would have to be impeached and tried.. and I am not sure the Republicans will even allow that to happen. They are pretty happy with him, its just that I wonder if they might want PENCE more... who knows

[dalton99a]

4. They already said they don't want to investigate any Republican, so I'd say chances for impeachment

are extremely poor.

[yuiyoshida]

6. I know right?

I mean who better than Criminals to not allow other CRIMINALS go to trial. They RUN the US government. Its becoming a Criminal operation.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep. It's honor among thieves.

[yuiyoshida]

8. I seriously don't know what it would take to impeach Trump...

If he nuked some European city? If he nuked some place in Syria, I am sure his base would be screaming for more bloodshed. But if he Nuked some place in France, lets say...Would the Republicans crap their pants over that? I am sure their base would probably said, they deserved it!

I don't know what it would take to Impeach this President...and frankly the idea of a President Pence, is freaking scary.

[dalton99a]

9. Maybe if he goes berserk and physically attacks a Republican senator on national TV

If he goes berserk and physically attacks a Democratic senator on national TV, Republicans will say the victim deserved it.

[Wounded Bear]

11. If we could flip the House in '18, it could happen...

[yuiyoshida]

12. Seems strange doesn't it?

The guy could be guilty of crimes, right now and no one wants to touch him, but IF SOMEHOW we could get a majority of DEMS back in, they would go after him...but here's the thing

I don't know IF we can get Dems back in. The Republicans control the Voting machines, they also put in Gerrymandering districts, they HAVE CHEATED at every turn, to prevent Democrats from being put in place! How do you fight back when the GAME IS RIGGED?

[Wounded Bear]

14. I know, but we can't give up...

too much at stake.

[BigDemVoter]

5. Good Riddance.

She 'led' much like her father did.

[moondust]

10. Demonstrations in Seoul now.

Friday afternoon there. Lots of police in riot gear.

CNN says older Koreans generally support Park and younger Koreans don't. Unprecedented situation, nobody knows what comes next.

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

13. It seems older voters being suckers for corrupt right wing politicians is a global phenomenon

Not just in the United States.