Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment verdict live: South Korea on edge as court to rule on president’s fate

Security high in capital as constitutional court to decide whether to remove or reinstate president months after he imposed martial law and triggered country’s worst political crisis in decades

South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment

What’s at stake in today’s constitutional court verdict? Raphael Rashid and Justin McCurry have put together this curtain-raiser.

If Yoon Suk Yeol survives the impeachment ruling, he will have pulled off an extraordinary political comeback, they write. If the decision goes against him, he will join a growing list of disgraced South Korean leaders who challenged the country’s democratic institutions.

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