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Friday, January 6, 2017

S. Korea president faces test of her political life in trial

[FILE - In the Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, people watch TV screens show the live broadcast of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's address to the nation at the Yongsan Electronic store in Seoul, South Korea. A lawyer for South Korea's disgraced president has compared her impeachment to the "unjust" deaths of Jesus Christ and the ancient Greek thinker Socrates. That might be over the top, but the country’s second impeachment trial will have major implications on the world’s 11th largest economy and its tense standoff with nuclear-armed North Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)]SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A lawyer for South Korea's disgraced president has compared her impeachment to the deaths of Jesus Christ and the ancient Greek thinker Socrates.


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