South Korea trial could remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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A trial is underway this week in South Korea's Constitutional Court that could remove the country's president from office. Also, Mexico sends a team of firefighters to California to help battle the wildfires that have devastated parts of Los Angeles. And, the trip in fishing boats from Morocco's western Atlantic coast to Spain's Canary Islands is just the final leg of a long, harrowing trip that can last for years. Plus, Village Hydroponics in Vermont grows and shares food, for free, with people displaced from their home countries.
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| 0:00.0 | In South Korea, a president is impeached but determined to stay in office. |
| 0:10.5 | His supporters are in the streets defending him. |
| 0:13.5 | There is palpable anger, anguish, angst in the air, and there's great political drama unfolding each day. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Marco Worm, and today we head to Seoul for that drama. We'll also hear why Mexico |
| 0:27.4 | is sent firefighters to help Los Angeles. It's just so wonderful to see the amount of love |
| 0:33.3 | that we're showing for each other. Plus, how Russia is recruiting new soldiers to fill the ranks amid heavy losses on the front line. |
| 0:41.2 | And one government wants to get ahead in AI by supporting infrastructure and innovation. |
| 0:46.4 | Those are just sensible things for any government to say. |
| 0:48.9 | And it's a little bit like being in favor of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution. |
| 0:53.5 | That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:59.2 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:01.8 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for being here this Tuesday. |
| 1:04.7 | We begin the show with a question, should he stay or should he go? |
| 1:09.2 | That's what the eight judges in South Korea's constitutional |
| 1:12.4 | court have to decide as legal proceedings against President Yun-Sukyol get underway. |
| 1:18.5 | Yun was impeached in early December, but ever since he stuck around the official presidential |
| 1:22.9 | residence defying arrest warrants. Yun says he will fight to the end. His political opponents say they're committed to pushing him out. |
| 1:31.0 | The world's Matthew Bell is in the South Korean Capitol with our story. |
| 1:36.1 | President Yun Suk Yol was impeached in December, |
| 1:39.4 | and for the past 10 days or so, his supporters have been coming out here |
| 1:43.7 | because the presidential residence is right up the hill from here. supporters have been coming out here because the presidential residence |
| 1:45.3 | is right up the hill from here. They've been coming out to defy the arrest warrant that the |
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