Incident highlights potential risks posed to disaster response by instability at highest level of government
South Korea plane crash – live updates
As the year draws to a close, South Koreans must have hoped for respite from the political chaos visited on their country in recent weeks.
It was going to take something out of the ordinary to overshadow Friday’s impeachment of Han Duck-soo, the second South Korean leader to be removed from office by parliament in a fortnight.
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