South Korea declares Nation-wide Martial Law

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Doubtful due to 'checks & balances', which South Korea doesn't have.....

Actually he declared martial law to DESTROY the checks and balances
Yoon said the declaration was made to prevent "anti-state forces" from depriving South Korean citizens of their freedom and happiness.

"I will wipe out anti-state forces as soon as possible and normalize the country's operation," Yoon said in a televised briefing in his office.

His "anti-state forces" was a reference to the opposition-controlled parliament, as he blamed his liberal political opponents for the political gridlock that the conservative ruling bloc suffered.

His political opponents were "paralyzing the courts in the country by threatening the judges and impeaching prosecutors, and by attempting to remove the Interior Minister, top broadcasting regulator, chief of the Board of Audit and Inspection, and the Defense Minister," Yoon claimed.

Yoon also slammed the opposition party's recent move to cut 4 trillion won ($2.8 billion) from the proposed 2025 national budget, saying the opposition party is using the national budget to paralyze the Yoon administration.
Which is the point
 

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1/8
@pop Base

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law to remove pro-North Korean elements.

The declaration allows military authority to “maintain public order”, such as unlimited power in making and enforcing laws.

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2/8
@‪Venusian Bee‬ ‪@venusianbeehive.bsky.social‬

ased on his track record, it seems safe to assume "pro-North Korean elements" = anyone he doesn't like

3/8
@‪Mike Oxlong Hunt‬ ‪@anyhousewine.bsky.social‬

''To beat the enemy you have to think like the enemy'' lol

4/8
@‪heartattack1.bsky.social‬ ‪@heartattack1.bsky.social‬

ictators in north and south korea

5/8
@‪Dan W‬ ‪@noneedforgreed.bsky.social‬

He’s the one supporting Russian invasion of Ukraine (Ukraine will win) and firing ballistic missiles tests to flex control of his impoverished population.

The response from Seoul, where my daughter was ugust 2023, is measured and appropriate, but puts US forces on alert on iego Garcia.

6/8
@‪Zesty Chinchilla‬ ‪@zestychinchilla.bsky.social‬

I mean, ya can't tolerate intolerance, or else you get whatever the hell is going on in the US rn 🤷‍♂️

7/8
@‪tabi‬ ‪@belizaswift.swifties.social‬

I understand

8/8
@‪malihoy.bsky.social‬ ‪@malihoy.bsky.social‬

😳

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1/12
@NOELREPORTS

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/KR20241203154500001?input=115mREKING: uring an unannounced speech on national television, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announces martial law due to the need to protect the nation's liberal democratic order from "pro-North Korean anti-state forces".

www.yna.co.kr/view/KR2024...

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2/12
@‪NOELREPORTS‬ ‪@noelreports.com‬

ontext: ccording to the president, martial law is necessary to protect the country's constitutional order, which is threatened by the opposition, and according to him "controls the parliament, sympathizes with North Korea and paralyzes the work of the government."

3/12
@‪Karlos Rovira‬ ‪@karlosrovira.bsky.social‬

Lets get rid of democracy to defend democracy from opposition... sounds familiar.

4/12
@‪Soupster‬ ‪@soupster16.bsky.social‬

He has an approval rating of 17% so as a desperate attempt is calling the opposition anti state communists. Seems like some desperate authoritarian bs.

5/12
@‪dampel.bsky.social‬ ‪@dampel.bsky.social‬

Yep, pretty much. That sounds a lot like a typical Korean right-wing political maneuver straight from Rhee Syngman or Park hung-hee's playbook... I guess the Korean conservatives never really dealt with that dubious heritage

6/12
@‪Au Bord de l'Abîme et au-delà‬ ‪@auborddelabime.bsky.social‬

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-7c22ac3f6abece6845457e577c1Seems he is just trying to crush democratic opposition and protect friends and family from affairs.
apnews.com/article/sout...

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7/12
@‪TheSeer 🇺🇦🇫🇮🏳️‍🌈📌‬ ‪@theseer1983.bsky.social‬

I don't like him after refusing to help Ukraine.

8/12
@‪Dan Tuke‬ ‪@danieltuke.bsky.social‬

Soooooo this seems like a straight up coup attempt right?

9/12
@‪dampel.bsky.social‬ ‪@dampel.bsky.social‬

Pretty much. Very reminiscent of Park hung-hee's 172 self-coup.

10/12
@‪Blake Brown‬ ‪@antiquequaalude.bsky.social‬

He's throwing a tantrum because the other party controls the legislature and is blocking his priorities, apparently. This guy came to power in an incel rage baiting campaign...sounds like Korean Trump, basically.

11/12
@‪Liberty View‬ ‪@libertyview.bsky.social‬

I wonder if he's trying to send a message to President iden to do the same. Pro-Putin, anti-liberal-democratic-order forces are coalescing to seize power at all levels of the merican government, and only iden can stop them.

12/12
@‪Soupster‬ ‪@soupster16.bsky.social‬

This is confusing because the South Korean president is the trump like figure in this scenario. Grabbing power by declaring the center left opposition as anti state communists that need to be dealt with to save the country or whatever.

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1/4
@oliver Alexander

Let’s restart the Korean War because the South Korean president’s wife might have been doing corrupt shyt

Peak 2024

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@‪Old Hound‬ ‪@oldhoundderby.bsky.social‬

The South Korean president found a new hack to be more popular than Kim Jong-Un with Trump: abandon democracy!

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@‪bajo-jajo 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺‬ ‪@bajo-jajo.bsky.social‬

hey, if it's going to make North Korea stop existing, im all for it

4/4
@‪Willow Tremaine‬ ‪@willowtremaine.bsky.social‬

Its a wild way to stop NK supplying Russia

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@josh Marshall

I’m no expert on South Korea. ut this apparent declaration of martial law doesn’t have the look of something that works. President claims state is threatened by North Korean symps in the south but seems like the issue is more his own unpopularity and scandals.

2/9
@‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬

2/ Militaries and security services operate by their own logic. ut absent a threat military leaders find compelling they’re usually not willing to sign on for an adventure with a president who’s already flailing.

3/9
@‪John Castiglione‬ ‪@johncastiglione.bsky.social‬

From his perspective, why not give it a shot? uthoritarianism is in the air and maybe he'll get an approving tweet out of it from his soon-to-be new patron.

4/9
@‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬

that is the thing that comes to mind. old days, in the post-cold-war era, US says no way. that's not so clear now.

5/9
@‪mrsblocking.bsky.social‬ ‪@mrsblocking.bsky.social‬

Me neither. ut sounds more like Mr T, opposition party needs to be cleansed out from communists and people against him! Nothing about N-K!

6/9
@‪cathyob1.bsky.social‬ ‪@cathyob1.bsky.social‬

oming to a country near you.

7/9
@‪JPWKeeper‬ ‪@jpwkeeper.bsky.social‬

Even if he's right, becoming an autocrat to fight off autocracy leaves you in the same place.

8/9
@‪abecedarian.bsky.social‬ ‪@abecedarian.bsky.social‬

We're threatened by Putinite sympathizers. iden should at least try this.

9/9
@‪Gauchohaulic‬ ‪@gauchohaulic.bsky.social‬

So basically this will end very poorly for him now or this will end very poorly for him later?

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@Markus Drake

For all we know this is happening because the opposition *reads article* disagrees on the proposed budget.

o YOU agree on the budget? Or do you hold North Korean sympathies. Seems those are increasingly the options we are offered when the right is in power.

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