Yoon Suk-yeol Proclaims "Fight Until the End" As Supporters of Impeached President Lie Down Outside Presidential Residence

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's supporters lay down on the road in front of the presidential residence in central Seoul on Monday to prevent the arrest of their leader, three days after a court issued his arrest warrant and a day after Yoon vowed to "fight until the end."The standoff between Yoon's supporters and opponents has escalated to new heights, with hundreds of thousands of people from both sides converging on Seoul for rallies. Yoon's supporters lay down in front of the presidential residence in an attempt to block the execution of the warrant, while the country's largest opposition party,

January 04, 2025

Zelensky supports European forces in Ukraine, but Ukraine will not give up on NATO membership

Zelensky supports European forces in UkraineUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of stationing European forces in Ukraine, but he warned that "France alone will not be enough" and that Ukraine does not want the initiative to be "limited to one or two countries."Zelensky made the remarks late Tuesday night in an interview with local media, adding that any such plan must be "a step towards the NATO alliance, and not a substitute for NATO; a step towards NATO, and not a reason to be deprived of a NATO perspective in the future."Ukraine does

January 04, 2025

Secret Russian documents leaked this week reveal that the country's military made a list of targets it would strike in a war with Japan and South Korea, including nuclear power plants and other civilian infrastructure.

According to a review of the leaked documents by media outlets, Russia's strike plan for Japan and South Korea included 160 locations, including roads, bridges, and factories, with the goal of preventing enemy forces from reassembling for combat operations.The files were among 29 Russian military documents that had been marked secret and primarily concerned training officers to deal with a conflict near Russia's eastern border from 2008 to 2014. However, they are still considered relevant to Russian strategy today.Russian military planners feared that in a war against NATO, the country's eastern border would be exposed to attack by the United

January 04, 2025

Slovakia threatens to retaliate against Ukraine: Restore Gazprom transit or pay up

Slovakia's prime minister said Thursday that his ruling coalition would discuss retaliation against Ukraine after it ended the transit of Russian gas across its territory to the country.In a video posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Robert Fico said his Direction party would consider cutting off electricity supplies to Ukraine, reducing aid to Ukrainian refugees, and demanding that Ukraine either resume Russian gas transit or compensate Slovakia for the loss of Russian gas.Russia officially closed the Ukrainian pipeline used to send natural gas to Europe at the start of this year, when a transit contract with Ukraine expired. The move marked

January 04, 2025

Elon Musk Calls Biden '100% Traitorous' Over Sale of Trump Wall Materials

US billionaire Elon Musk, the head of Donald Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" appointed by the former president in 2021, accused outgoing US President Joe Biden of "treason" on January 2 on the social media platform X.Musk made the accusation while commenting on a post from a user who claimed that Biden's administration was not trying to secure the border. "They are intentionally opening the border. It is treason."Musk retweeted the post and called Biden's administration "100% treasonous."The X user's post read that Biden's administration is selling the materials of the wall at the US-Mexico border with a starting price

January 04, 2025

5 Keywords to Understand the Arrest of Yoon Suk-yeol: Over 100 People Confronted Each Other for over 5 Hours

On December 31, 2024, the Seoul Western District Court issued an arrest warrant for Yoon Suk-yeol, the president of South Korea, on charges of inciting internal disturbance and abuse of power, along with a search warrant for the presidential residence. This marks the first time in South Korea's constitutional history that an arrest warrant has been issued for an incumbent president.On the morning of January 3, investigators from the Special Prosecutor's Office for High-Level Public Officials, commonly known as the Public Prosecutor's Office, arrived at the presidential residence in vehicles to execute the arrest warrant.After about five and a half

January 04, 2025

SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A vehicle that was believed to be heading to the presidential office for the arrest of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol arrived at a road in front of the presidential office here early Tuesday morning.

The convoy tasked with arresting and detaining Yoon departed from the headquarters of the Office for Special Affairs of Prosecution, Investigation, and Research (OSPIR) in Goyang, near the capital city of Seoul, early Tuesday morning. The convoy, consisting of 30 OSPIR members and 120 police officers, arrived at the presidential office's entrance, with 70 officers waiting outside the presidential office. Thousands of Yoon's supporters gathered outside the presidential office and shouted slogans to show their support for Yoon, while 2,700 police officers and 150 police vehicles were dispatched to maintain order.Yoon's legal defense team called the arrest warrant "illegal and

January 04, 2025

Prosecutors file charges against presidential guards who blocked arrest warrant for Yoon Suk-yeol

South Korea's Special Prosecutor's Office (SPC) said it discontinued an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk-yeol at 1:30 p.m. local time on Saturday after being unable to enter the presidential office to carry out the order."After a long standoff, we've made the decision to discontinue the arrest warrant," said SPC Chief Kang Young-keol in a statement, adding that the office "deeply regrets" Yoon's refusal to comply with the judicial process.Meanwhile, a special investigative body called the "Joint Investigation Team," which was created by the SPC, said it has decided to file charges against the chief and deputy chief of the

January 04, 2025

Serbia's defense ministry has released information on the deployment of Chinese-made FK-3 medium-range anti-aircraft missile weapon systems in the country, as well as the powerful capabilities of the anti-aircraft missiles.

"Powerful FK-3 missile systems guard Serbian skies," read a message on the official website of Serbia's defense ministry on Monday. The introduction of the FK-3 air defense missile system into the armament system of the Serbian air force and air defense units has significantly increased the capabilities of the country's airspace control and air defense systems, the report said.According to the message from the Serbian defense ministry, the 250th anti-aircraft missile brigade, equipped with the FK-3 air defense missile system, is daily working in training mode, while the performance of the personnel who participated is monitored and evaluated so that

January 04, 2025

Korean media: Blinken to Visit South Korea "for the First Time Since Yoon's Impeachment"

South Korea's foreign ministry said on January 3 that the two countries' foreign ministers will hold talks in Seoul on the 6th to discuss the South Korea-US alliance and other issues.According to a source familiar with the matter, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit South Korea in the near future and this will be his first visit to the country since the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. The source added that Blinken is expected to meet with South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Dae-yeop during his visit.Another source said that Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Ayukawa

January 04, 2025