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| ▲ Former President Yoon Suk Yeol is seen in this file photo taken in May 2024. (Yonhap) |
N Korea-Yoon ouster
N. Korea remains silent on Yoon's impeachment
SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has remained silent on the South Korean Constitutional Court's decision Friday to uphold the impeachment of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol.
As of 9:30 p.m. -- roughly 10 hours after the court ruled to remove Yoon from his position over his brief imposition of martial law in December -- the North's major state-run media outlets, including the Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, had yet to report on the ruling.
The North's Korean Central TV also failed to mention Yoon's ouster during its evening news broadcast.
This lack of response contrasts sharply with Pyongyang's swift reaction to the impeachment of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye in 2017, when its media reported on the Constitutional Court's ruling within three hours.
Analysts suggest the silence may be a deliberate strategy to keep a distance from South Korean affairs, in line with the North's definition of inter-Korean relations as those between "two mutually hostile states."
When the South Korean National Assembly passed the impeachment motion against Yoon in December, the North reported it only briefly two days later. Similarly, when Yoon declared martial law earlier that month, North Korean media remained silent for over a week.
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