“YOU CAN SING!”
Local media reported that Yoon is especially in love with wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
As president, Yoon has maintained a tricky stance towards nuclear-armed North Korea and strengthened ties with Seoul’s conventional ally, the United States.
Last 12 months, she sang Don McLean’s “American Pie” throughout a go to to the White House, prompting US President Joe Biden to reply: “I had no thought you possibly can sing.”
But his efforts to re-establish ties with South Korea’s former colonial ruler Japan haven’t gone down nicely with many at dwelling, as the difficulty stays delicate within the nation.
Lame DUCK
Yoon has been a lame duck president because the opposition Democratic Party received a majority on this 12 months’s parliamentary elections. They just lately minimize Yoon’s funds.
In his televised deal with to the nation on Tuesday evening, Yoon lashed out at “anti-state parts plundering folks’s freedom and happiness” and his workplace later interpreted the imposition of martial legislation as an try to interrupt the legislative impasse.
But utilizing its political difficulties as justification to impose martial legislation for the primary time in South Korea since 1980 is absurd, one analyst mentioned.
“(This) is usually reserved for conditions comparable to wars, emergencies or different related issues concerning nationwide safety threats,” mentioned Gi-Wook Shin, a professor at Stanford University.
“This scenario will take a look at the energy of Korea’s liberal democratic establishments and their capability to counter such actions,” Shin instructed AFP.
“It additionally sends a broader message to Korean politicians and democracies world wide: political targets can’t be pursued by such undemocratic means.”
