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![Protesters take part in a protest against the president outside the National Assembly on December 8, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2188847267-400x300.jpg)
South Korea’s Conservative Party Blocks Impeachment Vote After Coup Attempt
The right wing ruling party boycotted the vote despite outrage at President Yoon's failed imposition of martial law.
![A protester holding a sign reading "Insurrection Yoon Suk Yeol step down!" in Korean smiles while holding a candle](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_1204-south-korea-400x300.jpg)
South Koreans Prove Democracy Can Survive in the Face of Authoritarianism
Offering a model for resisting authoritarianism, South Korean activists say they will “fight for democracy at any cost.”
![Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul on December 4, 2024, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/12/2024_1203-korea-400x300.jpg)
South Korean President Forced to Rescind Right-Wing Martial Law Declaration
The scandal-plagued far right leader declared a need to protect the country from “communist” and “anti-state” forces.
![Visitors look at a film project on adoption in South Korea, Side by Side, directed by Korean American adoptee Glenn Morey at a exhibition hall in Seoul, South Korea, on July 31, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-1163077789-400x300.jpg)
US Must Take Steps to Rectify Ongoing Injustices Faced by South Korean Adoptees
The US and private, US-based agencies played a major role in building a corrupt transnational adoption industry.
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South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia
The lawsuit notes that the government is constitutionally obligated to protect Koreans from the climate emergency.
![South Korean and U.S. soldiers conduct a joint river-crossing exercise in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi province, on March 20, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2089870047-400x300.jpg)
Unprecedented US War Drills and Naval Deployments Raise Fear of War in Korea
The current US military buildup in the Korean Peninsula has surpassed Cold War levels.
![The U.S.S. Nimitz conducts routine operations while transiting the South China Sea on February 4, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0831-south-china-sea-400x300.jpg)
The US Is Fanning the Flames of War With China
U.S. actions intensify the danger of nuclear war in the Asia-Pacific.
![Antiwar activists hold a rally to mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, near a military check point on the Tongil bridge along the road leading to the truce village of Panmunjom, in the border city of Paju, on July 27, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0727-korean-war-400x300.jpg)
Koreans Demand the US End the Korean War 70 Years After Armistice
U.S. imperialism has not only thwarted peace in the Korean Peninsula, but is currently shaping a new Cold War.
![Leaked Pentagon Docs Reveal Global Reach of US Espionage](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/unnamed-file-400x300.jpg)
Leaked Pentagon Documents Reveal Global Reach of US Espionage
Journalist James Bamford says that the U.S. has lost a huge number of documents related to cyberweapons in recent years.
![In this handout image released by the South Korean Defense Ministry, a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber and F-16 fighter jets fly over the South Korea Peninsula during a joint air drill on February 19, 2023, at an undisclosed location in South Korea.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_0303-south-korea-400x300.jpg)
US Is Maintaining Tensions With North Korea to Draw in Allies Against China
The greatest threat to peace and stability in northeast Asia is the U.S. Indo-Pacific military encirclement of China.