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Yoon’s impeachment widens East Asia fault lines
The turmoil in Seoul, the weakest government in decades in Tokyo and Donald Trump’s return to power in Washington mean a brief moment of coordination is coming to an end at the worst possible time.
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home.
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Gearoid Reidy
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking,
Just over a year ago, he was holding hands with Japan’s former prime minister Fumio Kishida and US President Joe Biden at a historic trilateral summit at Camp David in the US; a few months before that, Mr Yoon was feted at the White House, serenading Mr Biden with a rendition of Don McLean’s classic song American Pie and crooning about “the day the music died”.
