🇰🇷🚨‼️ SUMMARY OF THE CRAZY EVENTS IN SOUTH KOREA:
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… pic.twitter.com/Ez5UcQutFR
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 3, 2024
The army is not implementing the martial law, just to be clear. It is a formality.
It is over.https://t.co/J46ORp2d4H
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 3, 2024
🇰🇷 It is almost 4:00AM in Seoul, South Korea.
Massive gatherings of protesters are still in the streets. pic.twitter.com/pd6DbixfOY
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 3, 2024
So, this guy declared martial law. He published a document saying he was shutting down the entire government and sending the military to take over because the opposition is working with North Korea.
Frankly, I have no idea what the context of this is. People on Twitter are claiming all kinds of things, but the smarter people are admitting they don’t really understand what happened.
It was a very weird scene.
It seems the country is incredibly unstable.
South Korea’s rightwing president has been forced to back down after he unexpectedly declared martial law only to face unanimous opposition from the national assembly, in the most serious challenge to the country’s democracy since the 1980s.President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late on Tuesday amid a dispute with opposition parties he accused of pro-North Korean sympathies and anti-state activities.
But after some of the tensest hours in the country’s recent history, Yoon said troops would return to their barracks and the order would be lifted following a cabinet meeting.
“Just a moment ago, there was a demand from the national assembly to lift the state of emergency, and we have withdrawn the military that was deployed for martial law operations,” Yoon said in a televised address early on Wednesday morning.
“We will accept the National Assembly’s request and lift the martial law through the cabinet meeting.”
The cabinet approved a motion to lift the order shortly after, prompting jubilation among protesters who had braved freezing temperatures to gather outside parliament.The main opposition Democratic party called for Yoon, who has been in office since 2022, to resign or face impeachment.
“Even if martial law is lifted, he cannot avoid treason charges. It was clearly revealed to the entire nation that President Yoon could no longer run the country normally. He should step down,” said Park Chan-dae, a senior Democratic party MP.
Yes, I don’t think this was normal.
I have to think there was something obvious leading up to such extreme behavior, but no one on the internet seems to know what that was. By all appearances, there was just normal political opposition stuff going on and all the sudden this guy declared himself dictator, then bitched out like a fag.
If there was no immediate series of events leading to this, then it must be the result of endemic dysfunction in “South Korea.” It cannot be “one guy just went insane” (or rather, it could be that, but it seems very unlikely).
The White House said it was “relieved” that Yoon had reversed course on his declaration of martial law. “Democracy is at the foundation of the U.S.-ROK alliance, and we will continue to monitor the situation,” a spokesperson said, referring to South Korea by the initials of its official name, the Republic of Korea.
OMG SHUT UP FAGGOTMERICA.
Democracy is the foundation of nothing, firstly.
Further: is democracy the foundation of your relationship with Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
I think the foundation of the relationship with South Korea is the 30,000 US troops there.
The US had previously said it was watching events in its key Asian ally – where it has 28,500 troops stationed to guard against North Korea – with “grave concern”.South Korea’s main opposition Democratic party had called president’s move “essentially a coup d’état”, saying it was illegal and in violation of the country’s constitution.
Yeah, but he said “JK LOL,” so I think that erases the coup?
He was just shit-testing people, maybe. Seeing what was up.
Legislators gathered in an emergency session of the National Assembly as parliamentary aides attempted to stop armed officers entering the building. Following Yoon’s declaration, Park An-su, the army’s chief of staff, had said that “strikes, work stoppages, and assembly acts that incite social unrest are prohibited”. Martial law in South Korea also provides for arrest without warrant and states that all media should be controlled by military authorities.
But there were no signs of South Korean society complying, after decades of democracy. Local media reported on the protests and the political developments, while the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions called emergency meetings to discuss going on strike.Hundreds of protesters had earlier gathered outside the national assembly building following Yoon’s announcement that he was acting to eradicate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces”.
Interestingly, the mainstream media is not even giving an explanation as to why this happened.
At the very least, whatever this was gives the lie to the claim that US-controlled democracies are so stable they can never be shaken.
North Korea should just invade.
