
Feuding clouds South Korea presidential election
In-depth News Features | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
September 22, 20256m 20s
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Show Notes
South Korea's conservative ruling party is lurching from one crisis to another. It lost its president to impeachment following a months-long scandal over an ill-fated martial law declaration, and is now beset by infighting over who should replace him. With campaigning underway for a snap June election, the party finds itself in disarray against an increasingly emboldened opposition.
NHK World's Aoki Yoshiyuki, a former Seoul bureau chief, explains.