South Korea President Yoon Declares Martial Law

[Pototan]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.

Yoon — whose approval rating has dipped in recent months — has struggled to push his agenda against an opposition-controlled parliament since taking office in 2022.

Yoon’s conservative People Power Party had been locked in an impasse with the liberal opposition Democratic Party over next year’s budget bill. He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-997c22ac93f6a9bece68454597e577c1

[hatrack]

1. Coming soon to a Shining City On The Hill near you!!!

[Pototan]

2. My first thought, exactly

[Takket]

5. you took the words right out of my mouth... Miller and Bannon are watching, and learning......

[DeepWinter]

3. Well...

"... accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament"

The Liberal Democratic Party does control the Parliament 170 to 108. That's just the reality. Figure it out.

S Korea's politics is pretty rough and tumble. Parties come in and out of power all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_South_Korea

[dalton99a]

4. Trump: "That's how you get things done!"

[SunSeeker]

6. So how does martial law help Yoon get past the budget impasse with the legislators?

All it will do is piss off the South Korean population, which is already souring on him after his narrow election win in 2022.

[Dem4life1970]

7. Sun Seeker, may it be the same here 😎🎉🎈💯

[JCMach1]

10. Impeachment was coming. Yoon is also corrupt

Shocker, no?

[AverageOldGuy]

8. Don't give Trump any ideas!!?

[JCMach1]

9. RW anti-democracy coup by an unpopular President

Sound familiar?

Literally voted into office by incels.

[lees1975]

11. Asking for a friend.

And I'm wondering whether any Democrats in the United States have given this a thought, considering the disaster that we know is coming, considering who is being nominated for executive branch cabinet positions.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. perosonal . internal alarms blaring here folks.

pointing finger back on onees self.? eh.

[oldmanlynn]

13. Why dont we do this type of thing.

I know its hard after the election but we seriously have Russia controlling our country via massive disinformation networks. Where is the intelligence agencies and FBI. Are they numb?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. SUMMARY OF THE CRAZY EVENTS IN SOUTH KOREA:

This incident is truly strange

Link to tweet

1) The president of South Korea expected an impeachment from the opposition.

2) To prevent that, he declared martial law banning all political activity!

3) The Korean army came and closed off the parliament to prevent MPs to come in and vote!

4) Korean MPs climbed over the fence and made their way to the parliament, breaching the block!

5) The special forces tried to storm the parliament, to stop the “political activity”

6) The parliament was as able to vote, and they voted unanimously to lift the martial law and lift all restrictions!

7) The army not know what to do first, decided to abide by the parliament and left!

8) Martial law will remain in place in South Korea until the president issues a decree to lift it.

The president is constitutionally obliged to lift martial law after a decision by parliament.

9) The South Korean president is expected to be arrested and impeached, according to media reports.

-> The opposition and the people won, by sneaking into the parliament and voting!