Summary (updated)

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday to counter “anti-state” forces, accusing opposition lawmakers of pro-North Korean sympathies.

Parliament, controlled by the opposition, quickly voted to nullify the declaration, calling it unconstitutional.

Protesters and lawmakers denounced Yoon’s move as authoritarian, echoing South Korea’s pre-democracy era.

Military personnel withdrew following the vote, and Yoon promised to lift martial law after a Cabinet meeting.

Critics warned of democratic backsliding. This marks South Korea’s first martial law declaration since democratization in 1987.

  • x00z@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    What are you comparing it to? Trumpman? because that’s totally different.

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      20 days ago

      Trump would certainly never abuse his power for personal political gain, that’s very true, as long as we ignore * squints at phone * all of the evidence

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        No. I’m saying the US has no neighboring country threatening them every day and undermining their government.

        If you compare it to the US it would look more like Biden invoking martial law because he thinks Trump is a Russian puppet.

        So Trump threatening with martial law for immigrants (and probably lgbt+ communities) is quite different.

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          We don’t need geographic neighbors to undermine us when they can do it over the Internet.

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            Even then I think we’ve been proving a foreign government can fuck up another country from the other side of the world since at least 1492.