THE president of South Korea Roh Moo-Hyun has said North Korea’s nuclear test was forcing a change in his policy of engagement with the communist state.

South Korea’s president said his nation was “wrenched with grief” over the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq.

The impeachment of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will go ahead, the country’s Constitutional Court said today, insisting that it will not be influenced by a stunning parliamentary election win for the party that supports the embattled head of state.

The pro-government Uri Party took a majority in South Korea’s hotly contested parliamentary elections today.