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Twelve-year-old Gambian girl Janet Silva underwent ten hours of surgery to remove a cantaloupe-sized tumor that had been growing on her face for almost four years. Video courtesy of affiliate WCBS.

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Little girl takes flight after opening a door in Ohio

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Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it.

Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle."

Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself.

Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song.

When asked if Madison is thinking of any career plans in the aeronautical field, her mom laughed and said, "No, (she's) still looking at Disney princesses."

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Germany ax attack, seven people injured at train station.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia."

He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement.

Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

Police believe the suspect acted alone.

Bruno Macedo, a passenger on a train that was due to stop in Dusseldorf, said his train was diverted to Cologne.

Another passenger, Martin Sebastian Abel, said his train was stopped before it got to the main station and they were told there was an emergency. Police officers rushed to the scene, but they were not told what was going on, he said.

The station remained closed Friday.

In July, a Pakistani teen traveling on a train near Wuerzburg injured five people with an ax before German police shot him dead. In a video found on YouTube after the attack, the teen described himself as a soldier of the caliphate and a martyr.

Police said he was driven by ISIS propaganda.

CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin and Laura Goehler contributed to this report.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia." He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement. Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

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SPRING YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD 1 HOUR SATURDAY FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!

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SPRING YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD 1 HOUR SATURDAY FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!

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World's heaviest woman gets hope from surgery - CNN Video

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An Egyptian woman weighing over 1,100 pounds (500 kg) has undergone successful weight loss surgery in India.

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Twelve-year-old Gambian girl Janet Silva underwent ten hours of surgery to remove a cantaloupe-sized tumor that had been growing on her face for almost four years. Video courtesy of affiliate WCBS.

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Women seeking abortions and some basic health services, including prenatal care, contraception and cancer screenings, would face restrictions and struggle to pay for some of that medical care under the House Republicans' proposed bill.

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Somewhere in the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, a closely held number of FBI agents face the daunting task of determining how the Russian government sought to manipulate the US presidential election.

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It's a case that's been the subject of endless speculation in Washington and beyond.

But to those tasked with getting to the bottom of the allegations and innuendo, it's just another "standard counterintelligence investigation," as one highly placed US official put it. Add to that the freshly assigned task of determining how a huge cache of what appear to be authentic CIA documents ended up on the WikiLeaks website.

Welcome to the super-secret world of the Counterintelligence Division, home to the spy catchers of the FBI.

It's a shadowy world that's closed off even to those typically in the know in bureau headquarters, a silo of secrecy in which agents are valued as much for their ability to keep quiet as they are for their investigative skills.

"They keep that (stuff) locked down tight," one veteran FBI agent said.

One source familiar with the Russia investigation resorted to a mathematical equation to divulge -- sort of -- the number of agents assigned to the matter.

It's five to 10 fewer than were assigned to the Hillary Clinton email investigation, said the source, who is not authorized to speak publicly and did so on the condition of anonymity. There were about two dozen dedicated to that case, so that makes 15 to 20 on the Russia investigation.

The resources assigned to the Clinton investigation were in response to agents having to sort through a vast amount of electronic data in a finite period of time before the then-looming presidential election, the source said. With the Russia probe, there is no such time pressure and efforts are more focused on interviews with human sources.

The smaller number of agents assigned to the case should not be interpreted as a lack of interest, the source said. Developments in the case are sent up the chain to the highest levels on a regular basis.

Known simply as CD within the bureau, the Counterintelligence Division is responsible for protecting the secrets of the US intelligence community, the advanced technologies of American institutions both public and private, keeping weapons of mass destruction away from US enemies and countering the activities of foreign spies, including cyberintrusions.

Their cases sometimes go on for years amid careful, tedious, behind-the-scenes work aimed at recruiting or neutralizing foreign spies.

One reason for the long, drawn-out investigations is that their cases rarely are as cut and dried as bank robbery or kidnapping.

In the Russia investigation, for instance, there's been abundant speculation about the significance of meetings between people connected to President Donald Trump and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.

A meeting in itself means nothing, said Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent and Republican congressman from Michigan.

"First of all, they have to find a crime," Rogers, a CNN national security commentator, said of the agents.

"I have met with Kislyak twice, as a congressman," Rogers said. "That's not a crime."

Rarely do they result in criminal prosecutions. Rarer still are headlines.

There was an exception in 2015, when the Counterintelligence Division was publicly credited with the disruption of a Russian spy ring operating in New York City. It was lead by a man working in a Russian bank in Manhattan, according to federal authorities. The man, Evgeny Buryakov, also happened to be an agent of Russia's SVR, their equivalent of the CIA. It was a spy-novel-worthy case involving electronic intercepts, surveillance and coded messages. Buryakov pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to two and half years in prison.

Ironically, the division's most enduring publicity came in the wake of the massive betrayal of one of its longtime agents: Robert Philip Hanssen.

Hanssen was arrested in 2001 and charged with selling secrets to the former Soviet Union and Russia over the course of two decades. He was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and diamonds in exchange for secrets that he often left at a "dead drop" location for his handlers to retrieve. He was arrested following what would be his final drop, pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence in prison. He is considered the most damaging spy in FBI history.

But following his arrest, then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh singled out Hanssen's colleagues in the Counterintelligence Division for confronting "the most traitorous actions imaginable."

"Their actions represent counterintelligence at its very best and under the most difficult and sensitive of circumstances," Freeh said. "Hanssen's colleagues and coworkers at the FBI conducted this investigation and did so quietly, securely and without hesitation. Much of what these men and women did remains undisclosed but their success and that of their CIA counterparts represents unparalleled expertise and dedication to both principle and mission."

CD is so secretive that even former agents are reluctant to speak publicly about their tenure there.

One former supervisor said agents need the seemingly disparate skill set of being good talkers who can recruit and maintain sources while also being able to keep their mouths shut -- about everything.

"Ninety-five percent of the cases are classified information or above," the source said.

"You have to be very disciplined about what you share with whom," he said. "My wife knew where I worked. She did not really know what I did."

He said counterintelligence work would not appeal to someone with the stereotypical macho cop persona or someone who wants to be the center of attention.

"It's more subtle. You're working in the shadows. You don't want to be noticed," the source said. "It's very different than kicking down doors or doing drug raids."

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It's a case that's been the subject of endless speculation in Washington and beyond. But to those tasked with getting to the bottom of the allegations and innuendo, it's just another "standard counterintelligence investigation," as one highly placed US official put it.

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Hawaii teacher under fire for saying he wouldn't teach illegal immigrant students.

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A Hawaii high school teacher has come under fire after sending an email to faculty members Wednesday saying that he would refuse to teach students who have entered the U.S. illegally.

John Sullivan, the social studies teacher at Campbell High School in Ewa Beach on Oahu, sent the email in response to an email sent by a school counselour about students staying home from school due to deportation fears.

"This is another attack on the President over deportation," Sullivan said in the email obtained by Hawaii News Now. "Their parents need to apply for immigration like everyone else. If they are here in the U.S. illegally, I won't teach them."

Jon Henry Lee, the school's pincipal, told the station that he reminded Sullivan that the school does not "discriminate against any individuals" and that every registered student will be serviced.

Lee added that Sullivan broke school rules by using the department's email system to share a political opinion.

Sullivan said that entire situation was a "misunderstanding." He sent an email to Hawaii News Now saying his comment refered to being unable to teach kids who are home.

Sullivan may still face punishment by the school's principal, the report said.
Click for more from Hawaii News Now. Ryan Gaydos is a news editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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A Hawaii high school teacher has come under fire after sending an email to faculty members Wednesday saying that he would refuse to teach students who have entered the U.S. illegally. John Sullivan, the social studies teacher at Campbell High School in Ewa Beach on Oahu, sent the email in response to an email sent by a school counselour about students staying home from school due to deportation fears.

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Texas high school teacher accused of recording students undressing

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A Carrollton, Texas, high school teacher was arrested for allegedly recording students undressing.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
George Edwin Thomas III was arrested Thursday morning and charged with six counts of invasive visual recording, a state jail felony.

Carrollton police say the R.L. Turner High School teacher used hidden cameras to record female students who were changing into their uniforms without them knowing during the 2015-2016 school year.
WISCONSIN TEEN ASKS FATHER TO TAKE PHOTOS OF ARREST TO POST ON FACEBOOK
According to an arrest affidavit, Thomas' girlfriend had long suspected him of cheating on her. So when she and a friend found a random thumb drive on the floor of the apartment the couple shared, the friends grew curious and watched it to find disturbing images.

According to a warrant, the thumb drive "contained multiple video recordings of teenage girls disrobing in a closet." The report also states the thumb drive had "recordings that appeared to be at a teacher's desk with female students being called to the desk."

Police say the camera was positioned in order to record under clothing.

When voluntarily questioned by Carrollton police detectives, the report says that Thomas "admitted that he recorded videos on his phone in class: but the recordings were of activities for the students to watch and learn."

In a statement, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD said it was made aware of the allegations two weeks ago and placed Thomas on administrative leave.
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In Ohio a 4 year old girl was blown away by the wind:Parents in Lyndhurst,Ohio had a scare -and then a big laugh when their for year old daughter was blown away on a windy Wednesday. Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand,but when she opened the door with her other hand the heavy wind swung open the door and the girl went flying with it.

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Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it.

Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle."

Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself.

Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song.

When asked if Madison is thinking of any career plans in the aeronautical field, her mom laughed and said, "No, (she's) still looking at Disney princesses."

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Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it.

Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle."

Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself.

Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song.

When asked if Madison is thinking of any career plans in the aeronautical field, her mom laughed and said, "No, (she's) still looking at Disney princesses."

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George Edwin Thomas III was arrested Thursday morning and charged with six counts of invasive visual recording, a state jail felony.

Carrollton police say the R.L. Turner High School teacher used hidden cameras to record female students who were changing into their uniforms without them knowing during the 2015-2016 school year.

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A Carrollton, Texas, high school teacher was arrested for allegedly recording students undressing.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
George Edwin Thomas III was arrested Thursday morning and charged with six counts of invasive visual recording, a state jail felony.

Carrollton police say the R.L. Turner High School teacher used hidden cameras to record female students who were changing into their uniforms without them knowing during the 2015-2016 school year.
WISCONSIN TEEN ASKS FATHER TO TAKE PHOTOS OF ARREST TO POST ON FACEBOOK
According to an arrest affidavit, Thomas' girlfriend had long suspected him of cheating on her. So when she and a friend found a random thumb drive on the floor of the apartment the couple shared, the friends grew curious and watched it to find disturbing images.

According to a warrant, the thumb drive "contained multiple video recordings of teenage girls disrobing in a closet." The report also states the thumb drive had "recordings that appeared to be at a teacher's desk with female students being called to the desk."

Police say the camera was positioned in order to record under clothing.

When voluntarily questioned by Carrollton police detectives, the report says that Thomas "admitted that he recorded videos on his phone in class: but the recordings were of activities for the students to watch and learn."

In a statement, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD said it was made aware of the allegations two weeks ago and placed Thomas on administrative leave.
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Texas high school teacher accused of recording students undressing

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Germany ax attack, seven people injured at train station.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia."

He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement.

Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

Police believe the suspect acted alone.

Bruno Macedo, a passenger on a train that was due to stop in Dusseldorf, said his train was diverted to Cologne.

Another passenger, Martin Sebastian Abel, said his train was stopped before it got to the main station and they were told there was an emergency. Police officers rushed to the scene, but they were not told what was going on, he said.

The station remained closed Friday.

In July, a Pakistani teen traveling on a train near Wuerzburg injured five people with an ax before German police shot him dead. In a video found on YouTube after the attack, the teen described himself as a soldier of the caliphate and a martyr.

Police said he was driven by ISIS propaganda.

CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin and Laura Goehler contributed to this report.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia." He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement. Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia."

He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement.

Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

Police believe the suspect acted alone.

Bruno Macedo, a passenger on a train that was due to stop in Dusseldorf, said his train was diverted to Cologne.

Another passenger, Martin Sebastian Abel, said his train was stopped before it got to the main station and they were told there was an emergency. Police officers rushed to the scene, but they were not told what was going on, he said.

The station remained closed Friday.

In July, a Pakistani teen traveling on a train near Wuerzburg injured five people with an ax before German police shot him dead. In a video found on YouTube after the attack, the teen described himself as a soldier of the caliphate and a martyr.

Police said he was driven by ISIS propaganda.

CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin and Laura Goehler contributed to this report.

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Police described the suspect, who lives in nearby Wuppertal, as "a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia." He "obviously has mental problems," Dusseldorf police said in a statement. Of the seven people wounded in the Thursday night attack, three suffered severe injuries. Two women were among the injured.

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Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it.

Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle."

Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself.

Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song.

When asked if Madison is thinking of any career plans in the aeronautical field, her mom laughed and said, "No, (she's) still looking at Disney princesses."

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Mr. Kohl- South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been removed over alleged corruption. The country's first female president is now its first president to be impeached and thrown out of office.

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SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean court removed the president on Friday, a first in the nation's history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.

Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.

Park Geun-hye, the nation's first female president and the daughter of the Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, had been an icon of the conservative establishment that joined Washington in pressing for a hard line against North Korea's nuclear provocations.

Now, her downfall is expected to shift South Korean politics to the opposition, whose leaders want more engagement with North Korea and are wary of a major confrontation in the region. They say they will re-examine the country's joint strategy on North Korea with the United States and defuse tensions with China, which has sounded alarms about the growing American military footprint in Asia.

Ms. Park's powers were suspended in December after a legislative impeachment vote, though she continued to live in the presidential Blue House, largely alone and hidden from public view, while awaiting the decision by the Constitutional Court. The house had been her childhood home: She first moved in at the age of 9 and left it nearly two decades later after her mother and father were assassinated in separate episodes.

Eight justices of the Constitutional Court unanimously decided to unseat Ms. Park for committing "acts that violated the Constitution and laws" throughout her time in office, Acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi said in a ruling that was nationally broadcast.

Ms. Park's acts "betrayed the trust of the people and were of the kind that cannot be tolerated for the sake of protecting the Constitution," Justice Lee said.

As the verdict was announced, silence fell over thousands of Park supporters who rallied near the courthouse waving South Korean flags. Soon, they tried to march on the court and called for "destroying" it. When the police blocked them, some of the mostly elderly protesters attacked the officers with flagpoles, hurling water bottles and pieces of the sidewalk pavement. Two pro-Park demonstrators, ages 60 and 72, died during the unrest.

Ms. Park did not comment on the ruling, and remained in the presidential palace after her removal from power. But In Myung-jin, the leader of Ms. Park's conservative Liberty Korea Party, said he "humbly respected" the ruling.

With the immunity conferred by her office now gone, Ms. Park, 65, faces prosecutors seeking to charge her with bribery, extortion and abuse of power in connection with allegations of conspiring with a confidante, her childhood friend Choi Soon-sil, to collect tens of millions of dollars in bribes from companies like Samsung.

By law, the country must elect a new president within 60 days. The acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, an ally of Ms. Park's, will remain in office in the interim. The Trump administration is rushing a missile defense system to South Korea so that it can be in place before the election.

After the ruling, Mr. Hwang called key Cabinet ministers to put the nation on a heightened state of military readiness, saying the lack of a president represented a national "emergency." He also warned North Korea against making "additional provocations."

The last time a South Korean leader was removed from office under popular pressure was in 1960, when the police fired on crowds calling for President Syngman Rhee to step down. ( Mr. Rhee, a dictator, fled into exile in Hawaii and died there.)

In a sign of how far South Korea's young democracy has evolved, Ms. Park was removed without any violence, after large, peaceful protests in recent months demanding that she step down. In addition to the swell of popular anger, the legislature and the judiciary - two institutions that have been weaker than the presidency historically - were crucial to the outcome.

"This is a miracle, a new milestone in the strengthening and institutionalizing of democracy in South Korea," said Kang Won-taek, a political scientist at Seoul National University.

When crowds took to the streets, they were not just seeking to remove a leader who had one year left in office. They were also rebelling against a political order that had held South Korea together for decades but is now fracturing under pressures both at home and abroad, analysts said.

Ms. Park's father ruled South Korea from 1961 to 1979. He founded its economic growth model, which transformed the nation into an export powerhouse and allowed the emergence of family-controlled conglomerates known as chaebol that benefited from tax cuts and anti-labor policies.

Ms. Park was elected in 2012 with the support of older conservative South Koreans who revered her father for the country's breakneck economic growth.

But the nexus of industry and political power gave rise to collusive ties, highlighted by the scandal that led to Ms. Park's fall.

The scandal also swept up the de facto head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, who was indicted on charges of bribing Ms. Park and her confidante, Ms. Choi.

Samsung, the nation's largest conglomerate, has been tainted by corruption before. But the company has been considered too important to the economy for any of its top leaders to spend time behind bars - until now. The jailing of Mr. Lee, who is facing trial, is another potent sign that the old order is not holding.

In the wake of the Park scandal, all political parties have vowed to curtail presidential power to pardon chaebol tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes. They also promised to stop chaebol chairmen from helping their children amass fortunes through dubious means, like forcing their companies to do exclusive business with the children's businesses.

With the conservatives discredited - and no leading conservative candidate to succeed Ms. Park - the left could take power for the first time in a decade. The dominant campaign issues will probably be North Korea's nuclear weapons program and South Korea's relations with the United States and China.

If the opposition takes power, it may try to revive its old "sunshine policy" of building ties with North Korea through aid and exchanges, an approach favored by China. That would complicate Washington's efforts to isolate the North at a time other Asian nations like the Philippines are gravitating toward Beijing.

Moon Jae-in, the Democratic Party leader who is leading in opinion surveys, has said that a decade of applying sanctions on North Korea had failed to stop its nuclear weapons programs. He has said that sanctions are necessary, but that "their goal should be to draw North Korea back to the negotiating table."

He believes that Ms. Park's decision to allow the deployment of the American missile defense system - known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad - has dragged the country into the dangerous and growing rivalry between Washington and Beijing; China has called the system a threat to its security and taken steps to punish South Korea economically for accepting it.

Conservative South Koreans see the deployment of the antimissile system not only as a guard against the North but also as a symbolic reaffirmation of the all-important alliance with the United States. Mr. Moon's party demands that the deployment, which began this week, be suspended immediately. If it takes power, it says it will review the deployment of the antimissile system to determine if it is in South Korea's best interest.

As South Korea has learned, it cannot always keep Washington and Beijing happy at the same time, as in the case of the country's decision to accept the American missile defenses.

Yet Ms. Park's impeachment was also a pushback against "Cold War conservatives" like her father, who seized on Communist threats from North Korea to hide their corruption and silence political opponents, said Kim Dong-choon, a sociologist at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul.

Ms. Park's father tortured and executed dissidents, framing them with spying charges. Now, his daughter faces charges that her government blacklisted thousands of unfriendly artists and writers.

"Her removal means that the curtain is finally drawing on the authoritarian political and economic order that has dominated South Korea for decades," said Ahn Byong-jin, rector of the Global Academy for Future Civilizations at Kyung Hee University in Seoul.

Analysts cautioned that political and economic change will come slowly.

As Mr. Moon put it recently: "We need a national cleanup. We need to liquidate the old system and build a new South Korea. Only then can we complete the revolution started by the people who rallied with candlelight."

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South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

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SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean court removed the president on Friday, a first in the nation's history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time. Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.