Kurt Campbell's "stabilizing signal"

Submitted by soryang on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 7:16am

He couldn't be more out of touch.

Cha compares Kurt Campbell to John Foster Dulles. Campbell praises wanna be dictator Yoon, who for all practical purposes is still running S.Korea after having sent fully armed special forces to shut down the national assembly on the night of December 3-4. Cold war replay. Campbell repeats unsubstantiated reports of North Korean soldiers fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war. Reports this morning claim North Korean casualties in Kursk, etc., but reports say "it is reported that..." No corroborating evidence has been produced yet.

U.S. plans on high-level in-person engagement with Han's administration during last weeks of Biden gov't: Campbell

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States plans on having high-level in-person engagement with the administration of South Korea's Acting President Han Duck-soo, a top U.S. diplomat said Thursday, stressing that the Biden administration fully supports Han's interim role.

Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell made the remarks amid concerns that the ongoing political turmoil in the aftermath of President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law attempt and his subsequent impeachment would negatively affect bilateral cooperation between Seoul and Washington.

"I will not get into detail here, but we do plan on high-level engagement ... in-person engagement with the ROK appropriately in due course during the last weeks of the Biden administration," Campbell said during a roundtable with reporters at the Foreign Press Center. ROK is short for South Korea's official name, the Republic of Korea.

He added, "We are keeping every possible line of communication open not just with the interim government but (with) other actors in the crisis," he added.

Acting president of South Korea, Han Duck-soo, is on the verge of being impeached as well. He is threatening to veto the appointment of a special prosecution team free from conflicts of interest to investigate and present the record for impeachment of Yoon Seok-yeol. If he doesn't approve the special prosecution bill passed in the National Assembly by the end of December, the democratic party leadership will move for his impeachment as well. A lot of US observers including Korean-American journalists presume this coup affair ended on the night of Dec. 4. It hasn't. The fact that Campbell is engaging with Han doesn't bode well for "stability" in South Korea.

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Submitted by soryang on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 12:06pm
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...to move the impeachment of "suspended" president Yoon Seok-yeol of South Korea is being stonewalled by the prime minister. In order to reach and maintain a quorum of 7 in the Constitutional Court necessary to rule on Yoon impeachment during the 180 day allowed period, three additional justices need to be appointed by the acting president. He currently appears to have no inclination to do so. The opposition PPP (conservative) party has argued publicly, that the "acting president" doesn't have this power. This is another issue that may prompt Han's impeachment after the end of December. This however, looks like a merry-go-round, where the same stonewalling will derail the constitutional processes.

In response, the democratic opposition party has moved beyond the impeachment threat, to notifying Han that if he continues to obstruct the constitutional processes, "he will face spending the rest of his life in jail," with the other coup plotters.

(edit- correction "opposition" where I struck it out, I meant to say PPP, the conservative party, i.e., Yoon and Han Duck-soo's party).

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 10:08am
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of locking up the PM, there may be movement?
Thanks for the updates soryang.

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