“Yoon’s impeachment has some ways to go but it is almost certain he will be ousted”
MUCH like the Philippines, two years ago after its 2022 presidential elections, South Korean politics turned from the independent and sovereign foreign policy under President Moon Jae-in’s “unification with North Korea” theme, to the rabidly pro-American and pro-Japan country under President Yoon Suk-yeol whom the American defense industry Think Tank Rand Corporation tagged as “Biden’s Perfect South Korea Partner.”
This week President Yoon shook up the world’s attention from the absorbing events in Ukraine, Lebanon and the new geopolitical hot spot Syria, by a sudden declaration of an “emergency martial law” in his country “to safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements…”
The SK parliament and people did not and never did buy Yoon’s governance and his alibi for Martial Law, and the fall of this US proxy is now imminent.
Yoon is a political tyro who won only by a margin of 0.8 percent in the 2022 presidential elections over Lee Jae-myung of Moon’s then ruling Democratic Party as the popular Moon could only serve one-term under their Constitution.
Within two years, Yoon’s public approval rating crashed to 20 percent as reported by Gallup Korea with respondents angered over corruption of Yoon’s wife (13 percent), worsening economic conditions (15 percent), foreign policy disappointments (4 percent) among other factors.
The most controversial factor in Yoon’s foreign policy is his unpopular push for close defense ties with former Korean colonial master, Japan, a policy following US initiative to organize bloc politics aimed at encircling China.
Ties with China soured in 2023 after Yoon opined that “The Taiwan issue is not simply an issue between China and Taiwan but like the issue of North Korea, it is a global issue…” China strongly rejected the linkage and declared Taiwan as purely an internal issue.
The US has been exerting all sorts of pressures to stop SK from exporting semiconductor components to China and on other trade matters, at the time Yoon was clearly distancing from China diplomatically.
While China remained very popular among the South Korean people, the Yoon government was clearly following the sway of the Americans which took its toll on trade and diplomatic ties with China, although in late 2024 efforts to mend fences were underway.
Breaking Defense website of Northrop Grumman’s report on Dec. 4, 2024 titled “South Korean crisis likely to have military, geopolitical reverberations” warned if the more liberal opposition wins the struggle “Japan-Korea relations will go down the drain” and, by implication from my point-of-view, the US encirclement of China with offensive missiles would go down with it.
“Once Yoon is forced out, there may be retrenchment against tighter relations with Japan,” the report states.
The report goes on, “… the impeachment resolution (against Yoon) introduced in the National Assembly specifically calls out Yoon’s approach to Japan as part of the reason he should be forced out, including accusations he ‘adhered to a peculiar Japan-centric foreign policy,’” a US policy imposed on Yoon and very unpopular with the SK people.
Yoon’s impeachment has some ways to go but it is almost certain he will be ousted. The US plot to wreck the Asian Century with war will suffer a major blow.
There are many similarities between the SK situation and the Philippines today, both US proxy states with one just transitioned from an attempted coup d’etat by presidential decreed martial law and reversed in one day by the SK opposition parliament, in the Philippines a “pre-emptive” coup against an imminent 2028 government under Sara Duterte via impeachment initiative of the Leftist and the Rightists.
The Iglesia ni Cristo rally has momentarily paused the impeachment at the moment.
Meanwhile, the US “gray zone” proxy war in the South China Sea has faltered after two years against China’s “Great Wall of ships.”
Tarriela is getting it restarted with the latest fabricated “China Coast Guard dangerous maneuvers vs. PCG in WPS” story, but the PCG video itself showed the PCG cutting from the portside the Chinese Coast Guard ship – a violation of the international anti-collision regulation – but Tariella is counting on the public not knowing this.
The US Ukraine proxy Zelenskyy will be a political cadaver in a matter of a few months, and South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol is likely facing the same fate.
The Philippine situation may take a year longer but the same fate seems to be looming for its president – unless he changes course away from US vassalage.
