Reuters, SEOULThe South Korean Constitutional Court yesterday removed impeached president Park Geun-hye from office over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China. Park was stripped of her powers after the South Korean National Assembly voted to impeach her, but has remained in the official presidential compound. The ruling to uphold the vote on Dec. 9 last year to impeach her marks a dramatic fall from grace for South Korea’s first female president and the eldest daughter of former South Korean president Park Chung-hee. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn was appointed acting president and is to remain in that post until the election. Yesterday, hundreds of Park Geun-hye’s supporters, many of them older, tried to break through police barricades at the courthouse.

Source: Taipei Times March 10, 2017 15:56 UTC