Yoon’s impeachment widens East Asia fault lines


Yoon, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home. — AFP

SOUTH Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home.

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, Yoon was feted at the White House, serenading Biden with a rendition of Don McLean’s classic song American Pie and crooning about “the day the music died”.

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