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South Korea’s impeached Yoon to accept court decision, even ‘removal’ from office: lawyer
Despite facing arrest warrants and accusations of orchestrating an insurrection, Yoon maintains his innocence and views the situation as a battle for democracy
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office, his lawyer said on Thursday.
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“So if the decision is ‘removal’, it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun told a news conference.
Rulings by the court, one of the two highest courts in the country along with the Supreme Court, cannot be appealed.
Yoon has earlier ignored the Constitutional Court’s requests to submit legal briefs before the court began its hearing on December 27, but his lawyers have said he was willing to appear in person to argue his case.
The suspended president has defied repeated summons in a separate criminal investigation into allegations he masterminded an insurrection with his December 3 martial law bid, which led to the first arrest warrant issued for a sitting president.
Yoon’s lawyer said the president was currently at his official residence in Seoul and appeared healthy.
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