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South Korean lawmakers vote to impeach president Yoon

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In South Korea, the national assembly has voted to impeach President Yoon. Two hundred and four MPs out of 300 voted in favour of impeachment and Yoon is now suspended from office while South Korea's Constitutional Court deliberates whether to uphold his removal.
Also in the programme: the EU and South America’s Mercosur have signed a free-trade deal that some leaders have labelled β€œthe world's largest trade and investment partnership”, but not everyone’s happy about the agreement; and we discuss whether Christmas-card writing is a pleasure or a chore.
To discuss this and more, Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist based in Paris and editor-in-chief of The Dial, a magazine of international writing, and Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the progressive, UK-based New Economics Foundation think-tank. CREDIT: South Korean lawmakers attend a plenary session of the impeachment vote of President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, 14 December 2024. / EPA

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