It is not often South Korea is hit with deadly wildfires like they are currently experiencing:
At least four people were killed, six people were injured and some 1,500 people were evacuated as wildfires fueled by strong winds have scorched areas of the nation’s southeastern region, disaster authorities said Sunday.
The fire began in Sancheong County, about 250 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Friday and spread to other parts.
Of the six people who were injured, five were seriously harmed. All victims were found in Sancheong, according to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters.
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It seems to me that if this impeachment decision is being released on Monday that Yoon’s impeachment decision will likely be later in the week:
The Constitutional Court said Thursday it will deliver its ruling on Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s impeachment over martial law-related allegations next week.
The verdict will be announced at 10 a.m. Monday, the court said in a notice to the press, three months after he was impeached by the National Assembly over a string of allegations related to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed bid to impose martial law in December.
If the impeachment motion is upheld, Han will be removed from office. If it is dismissed, he will be reinstated.
Under the Constitution, the consent of at least six justices is required to uphold an impeachment motion. There are currently eight justices on the bench.
The motion against Han lists five reasons for his impeachment, including his alleged involvement in imposing martial law, his refusal to appoint additional justices to the Constitutional Court, and his refusal to promulgate two special counsel bills targeting Yoon and first lady Kim Keon Hee.
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Finally people will be able to take a tour of the Korean DMZ again:
South Korea plans to resume public tours of the Joint Security Area, a high-stakes spot shared with North Korea inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two nations, the Ministry of Unification announced Wednesday. The ministry news release said the tours will resume after consultations with relevant organizations, including United Nations Command, and after considering factors such as public safety and inter-Korean relations. The tours could begin as early as next month, an unnamed ministry official told Yonhap News on Tuesday. (…….)
Public tours were halted on July 18, 2023, after Army Pvt. Travis King crossed the Military Demarcation Line — the actual border between the two Koreas — and entered the North. North Korea released King two months later, after negotiations involving the Swedish government.
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You have to figure her husband was being arrested she would of course been highly upset:
First lady Kim Keon Hee purportedly berated the Presidential Security Service (PSS) for failing to stop investigators from detaining President Yoon Suk Yeol in January, according to sources Wednesday.
Kim’s alleged remark was described in arrest warrants police sought for two senior PSS officials — acting chief Kim Seong-hoon and bodyguard division chief Lee Kwang-woo — on Monday on charges of obstructing investigators’ first attempt to detain Yoon on January 3., according to the police and prosecution sources.
The warrants reportedly described the first lady as berating a PSS officer after investigators succeeded at their second detention attempt Jan. 15, saying, “What’s the point of carrying a gun? You’re supposed to stop something like that.”
She also allegedly expressed her despair by claiming to want to “shoot Chairman Lee Jae-myung and then die myself,” referring to the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party
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