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North Korean media report South Korean President Yoon's impeachment


FILE - People watch a TV broadcast showing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 12, 2024. On Dec. 15, North Korean media reported on Yoon's impeachment by South Korean parliament.
FILE - People watch a TV broadcast showing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 12, 2024. On Dec. 15, North Korean media reported on Yoon's impeachment by South Korean parliament.

North Korean state media KCNA on Monday reported on the South Korean parliament passing President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment vote Saturday.

Yoon was impeached in a second vote by South Korea's opposition-led parliament over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, which shocked the nation.

KCNA had reported for the first time on Dec. 11 South Korea's martial law crisis which was sparked on Dec. 3.

On Monday, KCNA did not offer much commentary, but called Yoon's defiant televised remarks on Dec. 12 "a press statement spliced with lies and obstinacy" and noted the rally in front of South Korean parliament that called for Yoon's impeachment.

It also noted media reports on various South Korean military and police officials' suspension from duties and ongoing investigation into Yoon.

After the impeachment vote passed Saturday, South Korea's acting defense minister, Kim Seon-ho, called on the military to maintain preparedness and ordered commanding officers to work promptly to stabilize their troop commands.

On Saturday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has begun using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults on Ukrainian forces battling to hold an enclave in Russia's Kursk region.

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