Summary (updated)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday to counter “anti-state” forces, accusing opposition lawmakers of pro-North Korean sympathies.
Parliament, controlled by the opposition, quickly voted to nullify the declaration, calling it unconstitutional.
Protesters and lawmakers denounced Yoon’s move as authoritarian, echoing South Korea’s pre-democracy era.
Military personnel withdrew following the vote, and Yoon promised to lift martial law after a Cabinet meeting.
Critics warned of democratic backsliding. This marks South Korea’s first martial law declaration since democratization in 1987.
It’s “refreshing” to see conservative leaders in other countries are just as insane and inept as they are in the West.
Misery loves company
What are you comparing it to? Trumpman? because that’s totally different.
Trump would certainly never abuse his power for personal political gain, that’s very true, as long as we ignore * squints at phone * all of the evidence
No. I’m saying the US has no neighboring country threatening them every day and undermining their government.
If you compare it to the US it would look more like Biden invoking martial law because he thinks Trump is a Russian puppet.
So Trump threatening with martial law for immigrants (and probably lgbt+ communities) is quite different.
We don’t need geographic neighbors to undermine us when they can do it over the Internet.
Even then I think we’ve been proving a foreign government can fuck up another country from the other side of the world since at least 1492.
Both the majority party (which is the party of the president) and the opposition party are saying this is unconstitutional. So hopefully they have some actions they can take to curtail it.
It’s really like a movie.
I mean in terms of how long it lasted lol
Well yeah, wouldn’t you say something if the president said we should dissolve congress?
Yes but it’s not a given considering a good chunk of US politicians defend Trump doing something like this on Jan 6
This is huge, pinning for a bit.
I hope they impeach that clown.
In all likelihood, that seems to be the case. I’d wager that since the people were shouting outside the parliament building that he should be impeached, plus that said parliament is mostly ran by the Opposition at this time, it’s fair to call it. Plus the fact that their military said this: “Following Yoon’s announcement of martial law, South Korea’s military proclaimed that parliament and other political gatherings that could cause “social confusion” would be suspended, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. The military said anyone who violated the decree could be arrested without a warrant.”
Sounds like they need to clean house in the military leadership as well.
You’d think a military staffed by citizen conscripts would balk at something like this. Hopefully they hang the leaders out to dry before they decide they’ve got nothing to lose by couping.
In reality, if someone is a politician working within the state, they’re not actually “anti-state”.
