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Global Impact of Crisis in South Korea

How the removal of President Park Guen-hye could affect tensions in the Korean peninsula.

How the removal of President Park Guen-hye could affect tensions in the Korean peninsula. Ambassador Christopher Hill, former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, explains how the political turmoil poses a challenge for the US and regional neighbours.

Also on the programme: a BBC investigation into Myanmar atrocities and is a massive statue unearthed in a Cairo neighbourhood an effigy of Ramses II?

(Picture: A man reads a newspaper as he attends a rally calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye's arrest in central Seoul, South Korea, March 10, 2017. The headline of the newspaper reads "Expulsion of Park Geun-hye, People's victory". Credit: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)

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Fri 10 Mar 201721:06GMT

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