Speaker blasts PPP as Assembly suspends push for constitutional amendment

National Assembly Speaker Rep. Woo Won-shik on Friday suspended the process to amend the Constitution, as a deadlock with the main opposition party was expected to persist. Woo said during Friday's plenary session that the conservative opposition People Power Party had notified him that it would launch a filibuster in a show of protest against the constitutional amendment pushed for by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea. Woo, who was a Democratic Party lawmaker before he assumed the Assembly S

By The Korea Herald