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  • Dec 4, 2024 | stripes.com | David Choi |Yoo Kyong Chang

    Banners outside the National Assembly building call for the ouster of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Dec. 5, 2024. (Luis Garcia/Stars and Stripes) SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s parliament in Seoul is scheduled to vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after his failed, six-hour attempt to impose martial law on the country this week.

  • Nov 27, 2024 | stripes.com | Yoo Kyong Chang

    Cannabis and its synthetic forms are legal in some U.S. states but are banned for U.S. service members and in South Korea under the Narcotics Control Act. (Department of Defense) CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — A South Korean court handed a suspended sentence to an American soldier convicted of smuggling synthetic cannabis into the country via military mail.

  • Nov 21, 2024 | stripes.com | David Choi |Yoo Kyong Chang

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks with military leaders at the Academy of Defense Sciences in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this image released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on May 28, 2024. (KCNA) A recent Ukrainian attack wounded a North Korean general, the first senior officer casualty reported among thousands of North Korean troops sent to bolster Russian forces, a report said.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | stripes.com | Yoo Kyong Chang

    A man walks near Pyeongtaek Station in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Nov. 19, 2024. (Luis Garcia/Stars and Stripes) South Korean police arrested a U.S. soldier over the weekend on suspicion of punching a teenager in Pyeongtaek, the city adjacent to the Army’s Camp Humphreys, and fracturing his jaw.

  • Nov 15, 2024 | stripes.com | David Choi |YooKyong Chang |Yoo Kyong Chang

    U.S. Army investigators and South Korean immigration agents cited several people and businesses at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, on Nov. 5, 2024, for alleged immigration violations. (U.S. Army) CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Ten people at retail businesses at this base were cited or deported earlier this month on suspicion of working illegally in South Korea, according to a South Korea immigration investigator Friday.

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