Yoon Seok-Yeol

Washington’s (not so) Strong Man in Seoul is Defying Arrest

January 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Korea, North Korea

by In Jeong Kim, published on DropSite News, January 3, 2025 Editor’s Note: Actually, he was finally arrested yesterday, January 17. So, it took me two weeks to get to this but it’s still critical to understand the political morass in South Korea. On January 3, three days after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president[…]

South Korea’s Problem: The United States

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Resistance, South Korea, US Foreign Policy

Editorial by Workers World, December 18, 2024 Since his Dec. 3 attempt to impose martial law, mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people involving the most important labor unions and popular organizations from around the country came out in the streets of Seoul demanding that South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol be deposed. After a popular rebellion repulsed Yoon’s Dec.[…]