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South Korea President Yoon declares martial law (www.reuters.com)
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SEOUL, Dec 3 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television.

Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to such a measure in order to safeguard free and constitutional order, saying opposition parties have taken hostage of the parliamentary process to throw the country into a crisis.

"I declare martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free constitutional order," Yoon said.

He did not say in the address what specific measures will be taken.

Yoon cited a motion by the country's opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, this week to impeach some of the country's top prosecutors and its rejection of a government budget proposal.

edit: BBC live feed. This just broke an hour ago so they're still gathering information: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

edit: Maybe it's over? Per the BBC-

South Koreans celebrate as Yoon withdraws martial law troops - published at 12:43

Moments after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced he would lift the martial law people outside the National Assembly celebrated, the AFP news agency reports.

It adds that Yoon says martial law troops have withdrawn after the National Assembly voted to block his imposition of military rule.

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

So what's with this guy is he a right wing psycho? I doubt he pulls this without state department backing given that ROK hosts our biggest overseas base complete with waterslides

US backing a right wing coup in ROK to stimy even the mildest reforms would be very classico

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

He's claiming the parliament are enemies of the state and pro-DPRK actors

[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

yeltsin 2: sin free or yelt hard

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Drink Hard with a Vengeance

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Based if true, but in reality just not psychotic enough

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

We will see if they release a statement, silence or a non-committal response will say a lot

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

The US would have released a condemnation within a few minutes of the coup starting in a country that it was not allied to.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're "monitoring the situation" lol

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