China-North Korea relations have significantly cooled this year as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to ...

With his impeachment, Yoon is automatically suspended from office while South Korea’s Constitutional Court deliberates his fate. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo is taking over as the interim president.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee disembark from an aircraft after landing at London Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom in November [File: Henry Nicholls/AFP ...

The vote by South Korea’s parliament to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday marked the culmination of a stunning political showdown sparked by his shock decision to impose martial law on ...

A United States missile-tracking aircraft was tracked flying above the waters between Japan and South Korea, two of Washington's security treaty allies in East Asia, for eight consecutive days as ...

SEOUL: South Korea’s tourism industry is steeling itself for a slowdown amid an ongoing political crisis that began when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Dec 3. Authorities expect ...

It has taken South Koreans 12 nights of protests in the bitter cold to achieve their goal, for President Yoon Suk Yeol's political career to take one step closer to the end. On Saturday the ...

SEOUL — South Korea’s parliament on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his stunning and short-lived martial law decree, a move that ended days of political paralysis but set up an ...

Today's events mark the third time South Korea's MPs have voted to impeach a president. The first time it happened was in March 2004 to Roh Moo-hyun, a human rights lawyer-turned politician.