Yoon Seok-yeol Evades First Arrest: Despite Warrant, South Korea's Public Prosecutor's Office Reluctant to Enter Presidential Residence

Yoon Seok-yeol Evades First Arrest: Despite Warrant, South Korea's Public Prosecutor's Office Reluctant to Enter Presidential Residence

Just days into 2025, another chapter in South Korea's constitutional crisis has played out in the form of a dramatic arrest warrant saga.On January 3, following a tense standoff lasting over five hours, South Korean investigators failed to arrest the country's impeached president, Yoon Seok-yeol, at his residence in central Seoul.Why was it so difficult for the authorities to enter the presidential residence? Why did South Korea's Public Prosecutor's Office not forcibly enter the residence? And what is next for Yoon following his evading arrest?On the morning of January 3, the South Korean public prosecutor's office (CIO) investigation squad arrived

Yoon Suk-yeol's "escape" from first arrest attempt: Mobilizing supporters is his final struggle

Yoon Suk-yeol's "escape" from first arrest attempt: Mobilizing supporters is his final struggle

As we entered the new year in South Korea, we found ourselves in uncharted territory. We were navigating the political whirlpool triggered by the declaration of a state of emergency and impeachment, and now, the tragic fog of Air Jijoung's airline crash. Prime Minister Choi Seong-mu, acting as South Korea's acting president, is in a precarious position, and the political situation has taken a sharp turn due to the statement by impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol that he would "fight to the end." Chaos has ensued, and the situation seems impossible to control.On January 3, after a five-and-a-half-hour standoff inside Seoul's

Europe Begins the "End of the Gazprom Era" as Transit Deal with Ukraine Expires Foreign Media: It Will Take a Decade to Build the Pipeline to China

Europe Begins the "End of the Gazprom Era" as Transit Deal with Ukraine Expires Foreign Media: It Will Take a Decade to Build the Pipeline to China

Russian energy giant Gazprom announced that it had halted gas flows to Europe after the transit deal between the company and Ukraine expired. Gazprom no longer has the technical or legal conditions to export gas to Europe through Ukraine.Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Fico, who previously visited Russia after Ukraine decided to shut off the valve, said on February 2 that he would propose that the country stop exporting electricity to Ukraine and "drastically reduce" financial support for the roughly 130,000 Ukrainian refugees living in the country. Fico added that the country would not face a shortage of gas, but that

Yoon Suk-yeol's Pyrrhic Victory Begins in the Presidential Residence of His Wife's Design

Yoon Suk-yeol's Pyrrhic Victory Begins in the Presidential Residence of His Wife's Design

The presidential residence in Hannam-dong, Seoul, consists of two low-rise buildings built in 1970, nestled in the greenery less than four kilometers away from the presidential office at Cheong Wa Dae in Jongno. For a half-century, it served as official government housing for South Korea's foreign ministers until President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife, Kim Jian-hee, moved in there in November 2022.It was, according to South Korean local media reports, "the residence that Kim picked out herself, like a house-hunter." First, she called up the last foreign minister to stay at the residence to ask "can I just take a

U.S. President Donald Trump says he intends to attend the funeral services of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he intends to attend the funeral services of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Trump responded to the question about Carter's funeral during a brief appearance with waiting journalists at his Mar-a-Lago get-away in Florida on New Year's Eve. Seated on a couch in front of the resort's ballroom, where he and supporters were about to ring in 2020, Trump was clad in a formal tuxedo.Asked if he was planning to attend Carter's funeral, Trump replied, "I will be; I will be."The nation's 39th president died Sunday at the age of 95.Earlier in the session, a reporter asked Trump if he expected any possible ceasefire to hold in the brutal war that has so

JFK's assassination: The darkest day for Dallas

JFK's assassination: The darkest day for Dallas

As the city remembers the assassination for another year, our Steve Pickett reports on the moniker "city of hate" that has stuck to Dallas for a half-century.RELATED STORY: America's ongoing obsession with the JFK assassination 60 years laterThe morning of Nov. 22, 1963, was to be a happy morning for a 13-year-old boy whose enthusiasm for the visit of a presidential motorcade led him to wave as the president came through.Quin Mathews was photographed waving to JFK in the motorcade."Kennedy came around the corner and he saw me," Mathews recalled, "and I wanted him to know that he was welcome

JFK president to hospital after he was shot

JFK president to hospital after he was shot

Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded will go up for auction later this month.

Biden and National Archives sued over JFK assassination records

Biden and National Archives sued over JFK assassination records

The Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit organization and online database containing the most comprehensive archive of records pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has sued President Biden and the National Archives and Records Administration for postponing the release of roughly 15,000 documents concerning the former president's murder.

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Trump backs capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers, and monsters'

Trump backs capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers, and monsters'

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