After a tumultuous three years in power, Yoon Suk-yeol has been removed as president of South Korea after the country’s Constitutional Court deemed that his declaration of martial law citing “pro-North” Korea elements in the opposition was not justified.

The impeached leader’s tenure was marked by an often confrontational approach to dealing with an increasingly militaristic North Korea, accelerating the deterioration of a relationship that had already stalled after Pyongyang walked away from engagement with both Seoul and Washington in 2019.

However, while Yoon’s removal may pave the way for a less hostile approach to North Korea, his impeachment also