SEOUL (Sputnik) – Acting South Korean President Han Deok-soo held a 16-minute phone conversation with US President Joe Biden on Sunday and promised to maintain and develop the alliance between the two countries.
Prime Minister Han became acting president after the South Korean parliament had impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on Saturday over the short-term imposition of martial law on December 3-4.
«Our government will carry out our diplomatic and security policies without disruption and work to ensure that the South Korea-U.S. alliance continues to be maintained and developed without wavering,» Han Deok-soo said.
He also explained that all South Korean state affairs would be conducted in strict accordance with the Constitution and the law.
Earlier, the South Korean parliament supported the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol, 204 lawmakers voted for the removal of the head of state from office, 85 voted against, three abstained, eight ballots were invalid. All 300 members of the South Korean parliament voted.
The Constitutional Court will begin considering the issue of removing Yoon Suk-yeol from the post of president next Monday. However, according to Sputnik’s experts, the court will need almost all six months allotted by law to make a decision on removing or reinstating Yoon as president of South Korea.
