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South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached:
South Korea's Parliament voted on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, an aloof conservative who took a hard line against North Korea and rose to power with strong support from those who revered her father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee. The vote against Ms. Park, the nation's first female leader, followed weeks of damaging disclosures in a corruption scandal that has all but paralyzed the government and produced the largest street protests in the nation's history. Her powers will now be suspended as the Constitutional Court considers whether to remove her from office.
Ms. Park has been accused of allowing a shadowy confidante, the daughter of a religious sect leader, to exercise remarkable influence on matters ranging from choosing top government officials to her wardrobe, and of helping her extort tens of millions of dollars from South Korean companies. The scandal, which gained national attention less than two months ago, has cast a harsh light on collusion between the presidency and big business in one of Asia's most dynamic economies.
Parliament's motion for impeachment, accusing Ms. Park of "extensive and serious violations of the Constitution and the law," will now be taken up by the Constitutional Court, which has six months to decide whether the charges are true and merit her ouster.
The impeachment bill passed 234-56.
Also at BBC, DW, and the Washington Post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @09:37AM
Oh come on! You know she doesn't count.
Privileged white lady who hit the glass ceiling of being ruler of one of the most powerful nations on earth. If it wasn't for all the sexism she endured, she would have risen to the level of Galactic Master, where the real power resides.
Without affirmative action, she never would have gotten so far as a secretary of the local counsel.
Feminism made that woman. She is standing on the broken backs of all the women's studies that came before her.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday December 09 2016, @03:21PM
I think that you will find she was only the Prime Minister - HM Queen is the ruler, although that is a rather more decorative title than practical one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:48PM
We the Queen can send troops, talk to me.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday December 09 2016, @06:34PM
Not without direction from Parliament she can't. The military oath of allegiance in the UK is:
The Queen however, does not give any direct orders: they are directed by Parliament (normally the Cabinet) to the Ministry of Defence (the Chiefs of Staff).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @06:37PM
> HM Queen is the ruler,
No, the queen is the queen. In other countries queen might be synonymous with ruler, but not in the UK. Not any more.
Yours is he worst kind of semantic hairsplitting, even if it were technically correct it would not reveal any new insight (<== which is par for semantic hairsplitting) and its not even technically correct (<== which hairsplitters at least usually get right).