Man tries "worst coup of all time", asked to leave existence.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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This clown was about to spark WWIII by doing a false flag operation and blame it on the DPRK. The DPRK is a national security issue for China, similar to how Ukraine is for Russia. China can't afford the DPRK to fall and turned into another US puppet in that region. China will most likely intervene if the DPRK is attacked. DPRK also has a defence pact with Russia. Death penalty for Yoon is the right punishment.
How many former presidents have the ROK executed / jailed? Can't remember the latest count since they always seem to be running it up.
5 arrested. 1 suicide. 1 killed by their own cia. 3 coup'ed.
Wow, such a model for the rest of the Amerikkkan vassals!
As far as I know, they arrested a lot of businesspeople and politicians without destroying companies or laying off workers, something that did not happen in Latin America during the 2010s, when the United States and the CIA tried to destroy all state-owned companies in Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. I think that only happened because the United States is interested in maintaining South Korean companies, unlike in Latin America, where they want us to be just a big farm and a mining site to be exploited by the United States and Europe.
The presidency of the ROK comes with a complimentary prison stay
It's like someone said a few months ago, we should slow up on calling them "bad Korea" and offer a bit of credit where it's due.
I think the fact that the system produces presidents who are consistently so bad that (almost?) every single one has left in disgrace is probably a bigger negative trait than the fact that they bother taking action against a good number of them.
Just saying to slow up a bit, we don't have to stop completely. Its certianly something compared to the free and legal corruption you see in the US and other liberal governments.
Yeah but they aren’t self-governing. Their system belongs to the west. Not them.
Yes, of course, but that too is part of the system, and the sole purpose of my comment is to say that the system is bad.
Right, sorry I didn’t explain that well. I just don’t see what the governments of occupied territories can really do. Ex: It seems like South Korea and Japan wants to do right by their population, but what we saw with the sudden change in Japan’s government last year was way more drastic than I think a lot of Comrades were paying attention to. Japan went from protesting Israel and making Israeli tourists sign non-involvement in wartime clauses. To just suddenly completely changing their non-aggression stance to suddenly send a shit ton of money to UKRAINE and say they’ll get militarily envolved with China, their greatest economic ally, while their elderly population is in dire need. Like Japan and South Korea were getting better. Then their occupiers say no.
Like no fuck that. Down with the governments of Japan and SK. Okinawa, as well as every province within Japan and Korea desperately need self-governance. That’s what we, as communists, should be working towards. East-Asia proletariat revolution against the western occupation at it’s most instable time. Do it, guys. Let’s fucking go.
I just don’t see what the governments of occupied territories can really do. Ex: It seems like South Korea and Japan wants to do right by their population
Well, the governments (as instruments of class oppression) are most proximately the problem and I think talking about what they "can" do kind of lends itself to weird question begging since the governments are willful collaborators. I'm not particularly trying to blame the proletariat of these countries though, because there's a lot of criticism you can make but ultimately things like SK presidents resigning in disgrace and Japan's anti-zionist measures you list are surely mostly products of popular pushback rather than, for example, the national bourgeoisie of Japan deciding that they suddenly don't like ethnostates (see Japan's freedom of association laws) and colonialism (Hokkaido; Ryukyu) now.
Anyway, we agree on the substance of the issue that these governments need to be overthrown and for America and the west no long hold special authority over them.
Popular pushback is key. Fuck the national bourgeoisie, they live on borrowed time bought by selling their own proletariat. They are doomed to failure. The time of worldwide proletariat union seems more achievable now than ever.
It's just how they serve a second term there.
He was briefly released in March after a court cancelled his detention, but was re-arrested in July and has been held since.
Dumbass didn't run? Lmao he should have
He should have defected to the DPRK
It would have been funny
If he defected to the DPRK he would have been executed by now.
Exactly. funny
I'd have been fuckin swimming if I didn't think I could get on a plane lmao, is staying arrogance or pure cluelessness?
He had FOUR MONTHS of freedom to arrange a way to escape. He has to be incredibly stupid tracks with how poor the attempted coup was in the first place because when the only possible charges are life in prison or death and you're obviously guilty then the only sensible option is to run.
Anyone could've gotten away in that much time if they actually tried to.
maybe the depth ship for the he could leedham Revolution in the meantime? lmao
EDIT: I should have proof read my speech-to-text. lmao
BTS is going to personally execute him on stage in their upcoming tour
If he stops dancing, he will be shot. 
no more half measures walter
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I loooooooove technology!
this is the correct translation
Oh cool!
I thought i was getting some bad translation
능지!
I got "nervous!" from firefox translation
I mean you better be if that's your sentence
this is what I got from a highlight any language to translate firefox addon
you come at the ~~republic~~ occupied puppet state, you best not miss
Seems reasonable, if you live in a country that already has the death penalty. The attempted coup president is not where I would start drawing the line and making a moral stance anyway
Dude is most likely going to get pardoned by the next president more so than him actually getting smoked considering the history of some previous president.
very critical support for the interim government of The breakaway Republic.
Can we get an emoji from the lady on the right? 
Biden and Yoon were besties and yet Yoon followers are holding "Make Korea Great Again" signs. Biden is such a loser.
Remember when the Saudis hung up on him?