President Yoon meets with Trump's closest aides shortly after the impeachment motion is passed

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Last month, President Yoon Suk Yeol reportedly met with a close aide to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump shortly after the impeachment motion was passed by the National Assembly.

The two seem to have discussed political issues in South Korea, which had been running in urgency, such as martial law and impeachment.

Reporter Cho Yong-sung on the sidewalk.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment bill was passed at the plenary session of the National Assembly on the afternoon of December 14 last year.It was only ten days after President

Yoon declared an emergency martial law.

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: Out of 300 votes, 204 votes, 85 votes for wealth, 3 abstentions, 8 votes invalid]

Since then, President Yoon has announced his position in a statement an hour after his duties were suspended and the impeachment bill was passed.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President] I will never give up. I will do my best for the country until the last minute, with all my reprimand, encouragement and support for me in mind.]

{President Yoon's meeting with President-elect Trump's closest aide seems to be shortly after the announcement of the statement.

The person in question was Matthew Schlapp, co-chair of the American Conservative Union, and the two met at their official residence in Hannam-dong, Seoul.

It is known that the conversation was an urgent political issue in Korea at the time, such as martial law and impeachment.

Matthew Schlapp, who is known to be on a par with Trump, is the husband of Mercedis Schlapp, who served as director of the White House during Trump's first term, and leads the United States Conservative Union.

Attention is focusing on the impeachment situation in South Korea and the specific conversations between the two and how the meeting took place ahead of the launch of the second Trump administration.

I'm YTN's Cho Yong Sung.