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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on March 10, 2017, 10:20:26 AM
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The full title is below. Not good, considering that the DUchebag to the North is making waves with his missiles.
South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests
by Tyler Durden
Mar 10, 2017 7:37 AM
As discussed last night, in a historic ruling, the South Korean Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment decision against President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country's conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China. The ruling sparked protests from hundreds of her supporters, two of whom were killed in clashes with police outside the court.
Park becomes South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office, capping months of paralysis and turmoil over a corruption scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in jail. A snap presidential election will be held within 60 days. Her ouster caps a 5 month-long political scandal, whose verdict exposed fault lines in a country long divided by Cold War politics. The ruling to uphold parliament's Dec. 9 vote to impeach her marks a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea's first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, both of whose parents were assassinated.
While Park's conservative supporters clashed with police outside the court, elsewhere, most people welcomed her ouster. A recent poll showed more than 70 percent supported her impeachment. Hundreds of thousands of people have for months been gathering at peaceful rallies in Seoul every weekend to call for her to step down.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUIXdVxLQ3Q[/youtube]
On Friday, hundreds of Park's supporters, many of them elderly, tried to break through police barricades at the courthouse. Police said one 72-year-old man was taken to hospital with a head injury and died. The circumstances of the second death were being investigated. Six people were injured, protest organizers said. Police blocked the main thoroughfare running through downtown Seoul in anticipation of bigger protests.
Now-former president Park, who has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, has refused to concede to the court's decision: according to Reuters she did not appear in court and a spokesman said she would not be making any comment nor would she leave the presidential Blue House residence on Friday. "For now, Park is not leaving the Blue House today," Blue House spokesman Kim Dong Jo told Reuters.
Emphasis in original at ZeroHedge. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/south-koreas-ex-president-refuses-vacate-residence-after-impeachment-two-dead-during
I wonder how many NoKo instigators were involved in the riots? Oh--I saw something to the effect in a column by Pat Buchannan (yesterday) that there's 28,000 US servicemen and women over there.
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She'll vacate, possibly with prison time if she keeps this up.
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She'll vacate, possibly with prison time if she keeps this up.
I'm sure she will. How many SoKos are going to be killed in the riots, though? Expect "the Un" to weigh in as well.
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I'm sure she will. How many SoKos are going to be killed in the riots, though? Expect "the Un" to weigh in as well.
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I've been in Seoul quite a few times. Was near there when President Park Chung-hee was assassinated in Oct '79.
The world came the closest to WWIII in the days right after Park was killed, but it was completely covered up at the time (no internet to expose it).
I can tell you this, Koreans do NOT screw around. That is why several have been killed already by the police in Seoul, and I can tell you the police there are responding with great restraint if only two have been killed so far.
It has often been said, and I believe it, that the largest battle in the history of the world would ensue on the Korean peninsula, and more men would be killed in that battle than any other battle in the history of the world.
That is one school of thought, which is logical because the South knows what would be in store for it if NK won the battle.
In '79 I asked a friend what he would do if the NK's overran Seoul. He grinned and said 'Have soju party.'
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY[/youtube]
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY[/youtube]
I just saw that on FNC. What a riot! The mother flying into the room made the whole scene.
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Lol.
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I just saw that on FNC. What a riot! The mother flying into the room made the whole scene.
The mother closing the door was what killed me. Laying down like she is under the camera or something.
I applauded her for that and the reporter for keeping a stiff upper lip (it is what the British do, after all).
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