{"id":74787,"date":"2025-01-14T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/south-korea-court-begins-impeachment-trial-of-suspended-president-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:45:02","slug":"south-korea-court-begins-impeachment-trial-of-suspended-president-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/south-korea-court-begins-impeachment-trial-of-suspended-president-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea court begins impeachment trial of suspended president | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Constitutional Court has held its first hearing to decide if suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol should be removed <!--more--> from office after his shock martial law attempt last month.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing ended within four minutes because of Yoon&#8217;s absence &#8211; his lawyers had earlier said he would not attend for his own safety, as there is a warrant out for his arrest on separate charges of insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Yoon was suspended after members of his own party voted with the opposition to impeach him.<\/p>\n<p>However he will only be formally removed from office if at least six of the eight-member Constitutional Court bench votes to uphold the impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#SouthKorea #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Constitutional Court has held its first hearing to decide if suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol should be removed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}