The Latest Breaking News from Impeachment

Country now has 60 days to hold snap elections to replace Yoon

The court said Yoon had ‘committed a grave betrayal of the trust of the people’ over his ill-fated declaration of martial law in December

Thousands of police were deployed in the vicinity of the Constitutional Court due to possible fallout from the ruling.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after he threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law

The fate of South Korea's presidency hangs on the Constitutional Court Friday as it decides whether to uphold Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over a disastrous martial law declaration or to return him to power.

South Korean police began dialing up their security levels Thursday in preparation for a Constitutional Court ruling on President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, as they sealed off areas around the court.

South Korea's Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on whether to strip impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol of office over his abortive declaration of martial law which plunged the country into political chaos.

Barricades go up in Seoul as court prepares to rule on whether to uphold Yoon’s impeachment or restore his powers

South Korea’s Constitutional Court will rule Friday on whether to dismiss impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol

At least six of the court’s eight justices need to uphold Yoon’s impeachment to remove him from office.

Following months of deliberation, South Korea’s Constitutional Court will decide this week whether to uphold the legislature’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law in December and formally remove him from office or restore his presidential powers