South Korea president survives impeachment move

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has survived an impeachment vote in parliament prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week.

Yoon's People Power Party boycotted the impeachment vote on Saturday, put forward by the main opposition Democratic Party, and the motion was scrapped after not enough lawmakers participated.

The leader of his own party said the president would eventually step down.

After the vote, however, PPP leader Han Dong-hoon said the party had decided that Yoon would resign.
“The declaration of martial law was a clear and serious violation of the law,” Han told reporters.

Han has a history of clashes with Yoon, however, and it was unclear if he was speaking for all PPP members. There was no word yet from Yoon on Han's comments.
Yoon shocked the nation late on Tuesday when he gave the military sweeping emergency powers to root out what he called ‘anti-state forces’ and overcome obstructionist political opponents.

But Yoon's martial law declaration plunged South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy and a key U.S. military ally, into its greatest political crisis in decades, threatening to shatter the country's reputation as a democratic success story.