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Nissan said in an announcement that five of its 11 executive committee members, including CEO Makoto Uchida, will step down. Chief Product Planning Officer Ivan Espinosa will take over from Uchida on April 1st. Nissan has been slow to roll out hybrid models, and it's been outsold by competitors in its key markets, the U.S. and China.
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In the last nine months of last year, the company's profits plunged by 90 percent. In November, it announced a plan to restructure and cut global production by 20 percent. Merger talks with Honda fell through because Honda wanted to make Nissan its subsidiary, which Uchida called unacceptable. Observers are now looking to see whether merger talks could resume under Espinosa's leadership.
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Toyota said Tuesday that it plans to donate a million dollars to President-elect Trump's inauguration, the first time it's contributed to a U.S. presidential inauguration. It announced the move a day after Ford and GM said they'd make similar donations. Trump has proposed 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico, where Toyota makes pickup trucks for the U.S. market.
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But some analysts believe that Trump could skip the tariffs on car exporters who shift production to the U.S., Or, they add, Trump might have to back away from tariffs if they cause inflation to spike at home. Japan also faces the risk of fallout from a potential U.S. trade war with its main trading partner, China. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 6PM EDT
Leaders of American corporations including Apple, FedEx, Boeing, Qualcomm and Pfizer were at the two-day forum. Li also met with Montana Senator Steve Daines, the first U.S. member of Congress to visit China since President Trump took office. Li told Daines that the U.S. and China should choose dialogue over confrontation. Anthony Kuhn in PR News, Beijing.
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Premier Li Chang's speech to the China Development Forum tried to instill confidence in the government's plan to jumpstart growth by boosting consumer spending and proactive economic policies. A lot of his remarks appeared aimed at the U.S. Li said that China is not against competition itself, it's just against competition aimed at holding others back.
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Premier Li Qiang's speech to the China Development Forum tried to instill confidence in the government's plan to jumpstart growth by boosting consumer spending and proactive economic policies. A lot of his remarks appeared aimed at the U.S. Li said that China is not against competition itself, it's just against competition aimed at holding others back.
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Leaders of American corporations including Apple, FedEx, Boeing, Qualcomm and Pfizer were at the two-day forum. Li also met with Montana Senator Steve Daines, the first U.S. member of Congress to visit China since President Trump took office. Li told Daines that the U.S. and China should choose dialogue over confrontation. Anthony Kuhn in PR News, Beijing.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 3PM EDT
Ahead of the trip, Daines said he'd be discussing curbing the flow from China of ingredients for the drug fentanyl, as well as seeking better access to the China market for Montana's farm products. Daines is due to meet with Premier Li Qiang on Sunday as foreign executives convene in Beijing for the annual China Development Forum. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing.
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Senator Daines met with Vice Premier He Lifeng, who's in charge of the economy and finance. Daines told He that during his visits to China over the years, he's always believed in constructive dialogue. Daines previously worked for consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble in southern China in the 1990s.
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No candidate won a majority of votes in the House of Representatives, so it came down to the first runoff vote in 30 years. The opposition could not unite around a single candidate either, so lawmakers voted for incumbent Shigeru Ishiba to stay on. Without a majority in Parliament, he'll have to scrape together enough votes to get individual bills and policies through the legislature.
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Another challenge Ichiba faces is warding off tariffs that a second Trump administration could levy on Japanese exports. Ichiba is trying to arrange a meeting with the president-elect before or after a G20 summit in Brazil this month. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
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I suggest to this so-called influencer, maybe she might try some other Australian animals. Take a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there.
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Hey, Leila.
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Well, it's been freezing cold the whole time, I can tell you that. Protesters knew this arrest was coming, so many of them had been there before dawn. They were at Yun's residence, which is on a hillside next to a major street, and there were more than 3,000 police and anti-corruption investigators there to execute an arrest warrant, which is a lot more than their first try.
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There were also ruling party lawmakers there trying to block police. It got chaotic. There were some tussles, but luckily there was no serious violence.
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Well, today and throughout this crisis, South Korea's vibrant political protest culture has been on full display. People across the political spectrum taking to the streets to defend democracy. Just after Yoon's arrest was announced, the anti-Yoon campaign erupted in cheering. Police were keeping the pro and anti-Yoon camps apart.
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I spoke to a 24-year-old student named Min Seo-won, who was both elated and relieved that there was no fighting. Let's hear her now.
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I was really worried about such a situation, she said. I'm worried about what would happen if there was gunfire. But I'm so relieved that there was thankfully no such situation and that Yoon Sung-yeol is finally detained, although it took a long time.
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Now, Yoon's supporters, meanwhile, are a minority, but some recent polls show support for his party has increased and support for his impeachment has decreased, which suggests that Yoon is rallying his base.
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Well, since the last attempt, Yoon's security detail fortified the residence with buses and barbed wire. Police had to scale those buses with ladders to get in, and the presidential security detail had said they'd fight to the finish. But before that, before the arrest, their leaders were charged with obstructing official duties. So in the end, they did not get in the way.
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There was a standoff as Yoon's lawyers negotiated with authorities. Then he was taken away for questioning. Yoon himself is a prosecutor. He remains silent under questioning. Authorities now have 48 hours to seek a formal arrest warrant for him or release him.
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The significance is being hotly contested. Yoon himself said that the rule of law is now breaking down in South Korea. He says the arrest procedure was invalid, but he voluntarily went in for questioning in order to prevent bloodshed. By contrast, the opposition's parliamentary floor leader said Yoon's arrest is the first step towards restoring the rule of law.
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And besides the criminal charges of insurrection, there's also another process going on, which is his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court. They're going to reconvene for another hearing tomorrow. And if the court rules against him, Yoon will formally be removed from office.
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You're welcome, Leila. Thank you.
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Can Old Age Be a New Beginning?
No, it's a totally fair point, Aisha. And clearly, having the ability to reinvent yourself might be a bit of a luxury that a lot of people can't afford. But also consider this, that there are lots of people, no matter their social economic status, that are really creative and resourceful.
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For example, one academic who's written about reinvention later in life told me about a woman who cleaned hotel rooms for a living, but her passion was helping animals. So she changed careers late in life and went to work in an animal shelter, not to earn tons of money, but it brought her way more happiness in a sense that she was doing some good in the world.
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And Aisha, there's another woman who I met who also found a new path despite limited resources. Can I tell you about her?
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Okay, so her name is Natalie Jones. She grew up in Boston in the 1960s in a working class family, granddaughter of Italian immigrants. And she told me that from a very early age, there was zero expectation that she would go to college. It just wasn't part of the family conversation.
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And in fact, when she was 12, the school she was going to asked her to choose whether she was business bound or college bound. And Natalie told me it was a choice that just left her completely dumbfounded.
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But Natalie was also a bit of a rebel and a risk taker. And after high school, she takes off on a trip to Europe. She traveled to Spain. She met an Irishman with whom she fell in love. And eventually they returned to the Boston area, got married, had a couple of kids. But it turned into sort of a hard life for them. Money was tight. They both worked at low paying jobs, living paycheck to paycheck.
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I think there's always a bit of that going on with me. But I think where this really started for me was about 16 years ago. I had a bit of a health scare, which thankfully I recovered from. I was also mourning the loss of my dad. And I guess you could say that I was coming to terms with this idea that there's a lot more of my life behind me
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And after about 12 years, the marriage was in crisis. And then her husband dropped a bombshell.
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So at 41, she's got two sons aged five and nine and no college degree.
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It is. But but Natalie is resourceful. You know, she juggled multiple part time jobs, including waitressing and office work. Then she joined a support group for families dealing with divorce, and eventually she became a volunteer facilitator and discovered that she was pretty good at it.
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And despite the fact that she spent her whole life convinced that she wasn't smart enough to go to college, in her mid-40s she makes the decision to go to college and pursue a degree in human services.
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So with loans and scholarships, Natalie continues her studies. And just shy of her 60th birthday, she got a master's degree and then became a licensed clinical therapist. And today she's well into her 70s and says she plans to keep working into her 80s.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess I'd make two points. You know, first, for those who haven't already reached their older years, you know, these stories are a chance to learn something about the road ahead from people who have already traveled it. You know, you could put it another way. Wisdom matters. It's inspiring to hear these stories.
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And I think it makes us all kind of reflect on our own lives and what we can do with our later years. And the other idea is this. These stories show the transformative power of human passion and the search for lifelong avocation. And that is literally a matter of life and death for all of us. And by that, I mean, we know that people who feel that they have a purpose in life live longer.
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And that's according to a growing body of research. One study out of Canada found that people with a sense of purpose had a 15% lower risk of death compared with those who said they were aimless. So they matter for that reason.
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then ahead of me and I'm thinking for the first time, what do I really wanna do with the time that remains? And I became intrigued with stories of people who found ways to reinvent themselves late in life in interesting and inspirational ways.
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Yeah, it's a great question. And it brings us to what was probably my favorite third act story about an all-woman rock and roll band.
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So, Aisha, this is a song from the Ace of Cups 2018 debut album, and the band members are all women. But this record almost didn't happen. The band was born in San Francisco in the 1960s, and they played with a lot of really well-known bands, including Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. But they never recorded an album. They never managed to do that.
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And as you can imagine, sexism had a lot to do with that. Denise Kaufman plays guitar for the Ace of Cups, and she said that even landing gigs could be a challenge. And she told me a story about trying to book a club in the 1960s in San Francisco.
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So, well, they didn't play naked. But by 1972, the band was pretty much done. You know, some of the members started having kids. They found other work and eventually they went their separate ways. And their music was almost lost forever.
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Well, decades after they first performed, a record producer heard them and was so impressed that he offered them a recording contract. So in 2018, more than 50 years after they first played together, the Ace of Cups finally released their first album. And when that album came out, they like to say on stage, we're in our 60s from the 60s.
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Today, they're all in their 70s and have actually released two albums.
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And just when I was dialing into this idea, Catherine Seeley of the New York Times reported a great story about a man who began this third act journey in a really fascinating way. And that story really helped launch this project.
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I love that. Keep hope alive. Aisha, thanks. It's been a real pleasure talking to you.
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Yeah, so his name is Tom Andrew, and he worked a full career as a doctor, including 20 years as the chief medical examiner for New Hampshire, which is where I live. Tom saw it all up close, Aisha. You know, the grim toll of car accidents, of gunshot wounds, poisonings, assaults, and suicides. You name it, he saw it.
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He said it was a job that gave him a particular appreciation for the fragility of life, And he remained committed to his work until the opioid crisis hit New Hampshire hard. And he told me that he watched too many kids, too many young people die, and that he didn't feel that the state was taking the epidemic seriously enough.
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And eventually, Tom just had enough. And in 2017, at the age of 61, he quit. He'd done the job for 20 years, so he retired.
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No, not at all. You know, he could have followed that route. He could have retired, put his feet up, cruised into old age. But instead, he goes back to school. He's a man of faith. So he goes to seminary school to become a Methodist deacon because what he wants to do is work with his local Boy Scout troop. So here's a bit of what he told me about that.
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Yeah, he really, and this animates a lot of the stories that I found. He wanted to give back is really a good way to put it. And it's worth pointing out that becoming a full-fledged deacon is a long process. It involves not only seminary school, but studying and sitting for interviews with church elders. And Tom was still at it just a couple of years ago at the age of 66 when I was talking to him.
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You know, he really is, as far as I can tell. His kids are grown. He's still happily married. And perhaps most importantly, his life has new purpose, Aisha. And he seems to be really thriving in this third act.
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Yeah, I mean, that's a big part of it. I mean, there's a lot of things going on here, but that's one of the main things worth considering. If you go back just over 100 years to 1900, the average life expectancy was around 47. Today, it hovers near 80. So that means we're living three decades longer than we used to.
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You know, I spoke to a bunch of experts on this subject, and one of them put it this way, that if you're 54, you could be only halfway through adulthood. And by the way, I came across this fact, which sort of blew my mind, Aisha. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans living into their 90s by 2050 could be as much as 10 times higher than it was in 1980.
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So that means if you're one of those people and you're 45, you're only halfway through your life. So you've got half your life ahead of you. So when you hit that traditional retirement age, there's still a lot of life left to live. That's the main point here.
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Yeah, it is crazy. And consider that some 80 million people in the United States are over the age of 60 and there are more and more of them every day. In fact, as many as 10,000 people a day are turning 65. So we're living longer and there are a whole lot more of us thinking about sort of what do we do with this extra two or three decades of life?
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And those who study this period have given it a name. It's called middle-essence. Think of it as a later-in-life adolescence. It's a time of change, of tumult, but it can also be a time of opportunity and growth, like adolescence. And by the way, Aisha, old age or older age offers an opportunity to be even happier than you might have been.
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And there's research on this, the so-called U-shaped theory of happiness. That suggests that happiness declines for many people from the teens or early 20s into the 40s and 50s, but then rises again when people hit their 60s, 70s, even their 80s. So this can be a really great time to reimagine your life.
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Absolutely. I mean, there's no doubt that making these changes takes work and sometimes a lot of courage. So let me tell you about another woman I interviewed for this series. Her name is Juliana Richardson. She grew up in Newark, Ohio, and she was the only black girl in her elementary school class.
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And she told me that when she was in the third grade, she already knew she was getting the sense there was something missing in her life.
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But Juliana was smart. She was ambitious. She ends up going to Brandeis University outside of Boston. And that's when she made a discovery that would eventually really change her life. So she was studying the Harlem Renaissance when she came across this well-known song.
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All right. So, well, it's a well-known song from a while ago, and I forgive you for not hearing it because it is old, but it was a famous old song called Wild About Harry, famous Broadway tune that was a song about President Harry Truman. Oh, OK. But when Richardson learned that it was written by a pair of black songwriters, Noble Sissel and Yubi Blake, it absolutely blew her mind.
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It thrilled her. I mean, here's a woman who grew up without any sense of black history, of her history, beginning to discover it. So that discovery inspires Richardson to record a series of interviews with a number of prominent black Americans for college, for this project. But it would take a while for her to figure out what to do with all this.
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And that's because her dad wanted her to be a lawyer. There was a lot of pressure on her to go that route. So after Brandeis, she went on to Harvard Law School. She got a law degree and ends up landing a job at a corporate law firm in Chicago.
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She was successful. She was well on her way. But here's the thing. She never felt completely at home in the world of corporate law. She always was more interested in acting and the arts, as she told me. And she said that she was the first black attorney at the firm in Chicago and only the second woman to work there.
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And so that had a lot to do with why she didn't want to keep being a lawyer, why she never really felt comfortable in that environment. So she decides to quit. Then she became an entrepreneur. She worked in the cable TV industry for the city of Chicago. She eventually started a home shopping channel. But the cable TV industry was in flux and in decline, so that didn't end up working out.
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So as Juliana told me, she was in midlife, out of a job, and lost with no idea what to do next. Classic midlife crisis.
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Right there. And the right there for Juliana was to return to that passion project she started at Brandeis to set up a company that would record and archive oral histories of Black Americans. So how old was she at this point? So she's in her late 40s when she makes this big decision.
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So the idea was to set up something that she called History Makers. It's an archive of video histories of Black Americans. But the plan had a huge flaw. Juliana had no money to do it. Her friends, they all thought she was crazy. Even her parents wondered why a Harvard-trained lawyer... would want to pursue this pipe dream.
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But she was determined and literally started History Makers with a laptop on her kitchen table. Fast forward to today, History Makers has recorded thousands of interviews of lots of prominent Black artists, athletes, and public figures. So here's a brief excerpt that I want to play from my story about History Makers.
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The nonprofit has collected masses of documents and recorded thousands of video interviews with the famous and not-so-famous, from black athletes like Ernie Banks.
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To black politicians, including a young state senator from Illinois, recorded in 2001.
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So Ayesha, seven years after that was recorded, Obama was elected president. And over the past 24 years, Juliana Richardson has raised close to $40 million and recorded something like 4,000 interviews, all of which are now available through the Library of Congress. and through many colleges and universities across the country.
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And so, as she told me, it took a while, but history makers became her third act.
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I think so. I think a lot richer. And another thing I like about Juliana's story is how she pushed through that classic midlife crisis. You know, some of the people who study this concept of middle essence say we shouldn't think about these periods as crises, right?
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It can be difficult, tumultuous, but it can be a gateway to self-discovery and really find yourself and contribute in a big way to the world as well. We'll be right back.
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Well, this time, all lawmakers in South Korea's parliament called the National Assembly voted. The vote ended up 204 to 85. Here's what it sounded like when the vote was announced in the main chamber.
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Of course, there's a lot of celebrating in the streets as well. Now, Yoon's original rationale for martial law was that opposition politicians who were sympathetic or in league with North Korea were paralyzing the government. But he never really stood that charge up. It never really resonated beyond his base of conservative supporters.
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And it became clear that there was no war or breakdown of public order or anything that legally justified martial law. And as his ministers and generals were arrested or questioned, it became clear that Yoon and not his subordinates was the one who was orchestrating martial law.
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Well, Yoon's official duties have already been suspended, and South Korea's Prime Minister Han Dok-soo will stand in as acting president. Next, South Korea's Constitutional Court will have 180 days to reject or uphold the impeachment. If they uphold it, Yoon will be officially removed from office, and a new election for president will have to be held within 60 days.
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It seems that way. One thing that happened was that Yoon tried to hand power over to his ruling party. He said, I'm not going to manage things. They will. But experts said that's an unconstitutional arrangement. So for a while, people were not really sure who was leading South Korea. And so many top generals were suspended from their duties. There was also concern about military vulnerability.
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The country technically remains at war with North Korea. I think South Korea's public image has taken somewhat of a beating. This is a country that, with the U.S., co-hosted a summit for democracy, and yet here was its leader trying to use the military to roll back people's civil rights. And, you know, a lot of people are celebrating right now, people who wanted Yoon impeached.
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But I think the sense you get from living here is that this has been a very stressful, even traumatic 11 days for South Koreans.
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Well, publicly, at least, the U.S. said it was relieved that Yoon's declaration of martial law was lifted. But I think privately, Biden administration officials have got to be absolutely exasperated that Yoon shot himself in the foot because Yoon was instrumental in forging a three-way coalition of the U.S., Japan, and South Korea to help deter North Korea from
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support Ukraine, enforce export controls on China, all these policy goals. Then again, think about this. Yoon is likely to be replaced by a liberal North Korea-friendly administration. And if the Trump administration and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un want to do the diplomatic dance again, South Korea could help broker some diplomacy.
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Jimmy Carter Remembered, Syria-Israel Relations, South Korea Plane Crash
Well, I'm in the departures hall of the Mu'an International Airport in South Cholla Province, about 180 miles south of Seoul. And right in front of me are rows of tents to shelter the passengers' families. The Red Cross church groups, volunteer groups are all here providing food and counseling.
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And now that all the people have been accounted for and it's clear that there were only two survivors, the focus is on taking care of the bereaved and digging the facts out about how this crash happened.
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Well, I don't know if you can hear it right now, but there are sobs, wails, anguished cries coming out from the tents. There's frustration at the waiting that people have to do. There's disbelief at official explanations. Just to give you an example, family members and officials have been meeting here throughout the day discussing how to deal with the aftermath of the crash.
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And suddenly this morning, a middle-aged man named Kim Yong-hon started yelling in frustration, sounded like this. So Mr. Kim then explained to everybody that he had traveled with a group of 18 people to Thailand, and they returned to South Korea without him, and he lost nine relatives, including three close family members. Let's hear him again.
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He said, when I parted with my family on the last day of the trip, I had no idea I would end up here. Out of the four in my family, out of 18 in the group, I'm the only one that survived. Why? Why do I have to bear this burden of pain?
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Now, aviation officials have said that the pilot reported that the plane hit a bird and Mr. Kim was angry and upset because he just couldn't believe or accept that this would be enough to cause the crash.
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Well, right now their first concern is reclaiming their families' members' bodies. At present, about 146 of the 179 victims have been identified. The problem is that only five of those bodies are relatively intact because of the force of the collision.
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Authorities say they have recovered over 600 body parts, and only after those parts are matched with the right bodies will they be returned to their families.
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Investigators are really busy looking at control tower data, taking black box data recorders back to Seoul. The country is going to check all the Boeing 737-800 airplanes. There are so many factors to be examined, and it could take a long time.
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These winds, combined with low humidities and low fuel moistures, will keep the fire threat in all of Los Angeles County very high.