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...Party's resounding victory represents a lifeline for President Roh Moo Hyun, who was impeached by conservative lawmakers last month in a move many voters considered a cynical power play. Roh is currently suspended from office, and his fate rests with the Constitutional Court, which has until September to rule on the matter. Roh's main offense had been to publicly voice his support for Uri, but the judges may view last week's vote as show of support for him, making them unwilling to uphold the impeachment...
...economic aid funneled to North Korea, which could increase friction between Seoul and Washington over how to deal with Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Seoul's plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June could also be in jeopardy. Officially, the Uri Party supported Roh's decision to send Korean troops. But the deployment could now come up for debate again. The Uri Party's parliamentary leader Kim Keun Tae says: "We have to examine carefully whether our decision to send troops to Iraq can serve its initial purpose of preserving peace and reconstructing Iraq...
...issue in South Korea, which has promised to send about 3,000 more troops to Iraq by the end of June. The nation will go to the polls this week to choose a new National Assembly, and while voters are currently more focused on the impeachment crisis surrounding President Roh Moo Hyun, Iraq might be the first big test for the postelection government, regardless of who leads it. Already, the public mood is turning against deploying more South Korean troops, especially after the brief kidnapping of seven missionaries last week. These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean...
Since being stripped of his presidency three weeks ago, Roh Moo Hyun has had a lot of downtime. He spent a weekend hiking with his family on a mountain overlooking the Blue House, the presidential mansion where he still resides. An aide says that on workdays Roh plows through a Korean translation of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's autobiography. He's been on TV, but didn't speak: since the impeachment, Roh hasn't addressed the nation...
...This week, South Korea's nine-judge Constitutional Court begins hearing arguments over Roh's ouster. His lawyers intend to argue that the impeachment was railroaded through the National Assembly and should be thrown out on procedural grounds. If the court doesn't bite, they plan to argue that the first charge against Roh?that he voiced support for the Uri Party in the upcoming National Assembly election, even though he's required to be neutral as President?was trivial, and that there is no basis in constitutional law for the other two charges of economic mismanagement and corruption among...