South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home.
Just over a year ago, he was holding hands with Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden at a historical trilateral summit at Camp David; a few months before that, Yoon was feted at the White House, serenading Biden with a rendition of Don McLean’s American Pie and crooning about "the day the music died.”
After his botched attempt to declare martial law, few will write wistful ditties about the day his premiership died. But there is something to regret: With it, the region risks losing an important trilateral relationship at the worst possible time.
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