KR South Korean president declares emergency martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state activities

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.

Yoon made the announcement during a televised briefing. He declared the step as critical for defending the country’s constitutional order. It wasn’t immediately clear how the steps would affect the country’s governance and democracy.

Yoon since taking office in 2022 had struggled to push his agendas against an opposition-controlled parliament.

 

[George Lucas]

There goes about twenty years of Korea marketing itself as a free, capitalistic democracy. Just like everything Korea makes it’s a knock-off. People will immediately think of this whenever they think of Korea for the next decade or so.

Meanwhile Japan and Taiwan maintain an excellent record of free and fair elections without the pungent smell of materialistic kimchi and anorexic idols.

 

[JosephStalin]

The fuck? Apparently I've been living under a rock because I had no idea things were this hot over there.

Indeed, surprise here, too.

Today some people from the Korean Consulate in San Francisco were coming to my wife's church to help Koreans who are green card holders but not US citizens to fill out various types of Korean Government paperwork, for new passports, old-age pension benefits, etc. My wife was taking one of the people she takes care of to apply for a new Korean passport. Advised my wife not to ask the Consulate people about the martial law.

Best of my knowledge this is the first time in decades martial law has been declared. South Korea has had times of political turmoil over the years but this must be really bad.

What we should be watching for....South Korea pulling one or more Army divisions off the line with North Korea to go into the cities. Seoul is one place where those troops could be used, as well as Kwangju, in South Cholla Province, which has always had differences with any central government. Major rioting there in 1980. If this happens the US will be pissed, just like in 1980.

US troops/dependents in Korea may find themselves confined to base or only allowed to go from their residences downtown to the base and back until things settle down. US troops/dependents are directed to stay away from any internal Korean political riots, etc., and the Korean demonstrators, the Korean National Police, the Combat Police, and the army leave them alone. Any Americans caught in the middle are normally allowed safe passage out.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

The other side in this are a feminist lesbian death cult and NK/leftist simps. No matter how bad it looks..... tis confusion in reality.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

the gook feminist dichotomy is overstated and overhyped. most people don't care about 4b and certainly not south of seoul. koreans in general aren't political because modern politics is full of graft and corruption on top of the fact that they're a new democracy. those big korean protests and riots happened because of policies that directly affected the protesters, contrast that with america where people protest because its hip and virtue signals.

Nah man it definitely exists, just not as mainstream as many think

I haven't and I'm glad, but even the anime has degenerated into shit like Fate instead of based stuff like Bleach and Outlaw Star.

Check the Western Animation thread, it's bleak for the American Animation Industry although Canada and Europe is doing fine. Also as a fan of the Nasuverse, I would say the real problem with Fate is that it fell down the Gacha rabbithole

Kids these days are growing up with zero appreciation for tan-skinned tomboys.

Safe Horny

 

[Sulla]

Also as a fan of the Nasuverse, I would say the real problem with Fate is that it fell down the Gacha rabbithole

No, Fate categorically sucks. The wrong franchise got popular.
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It's 9 am in korea, did the president wake up and decide how he's going to proceed yet?

 

[Vect]

This is the lamest fascism of all time.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Just find your opposition guilty of aiding and abetting Johnny Somali. Boom!

 

[AllieKat]

Either start killing people or get off the pot you pussy Yoon

 

[God of Nothing]

based stuff like Bleach

lol
lmao

No, Fate categorically sucks. The wrong franchise got popular.

blatant lies i'm sure one of the korean military men will kill you over

This is the lamest fascism of all time.

It certainly is something.

 

[Enoch Emery]

Ok guys. What if this is actually 4D chess.

Invoke martial law. Protests. Revoke Martial Law.
People now protest for you to resign.
Protests get violent.
Invoke martial law for actual reason.
Dictatorship

Happeningbros? Do we still have hope?

 

[not william stenchever]

Ok guys. What if this is actually 4D chess.

Invoke martial law. Protests. Revoke Martial Law.
People now protest for you to resign.
Protests get violent.
Invoke martial law for actual reason.
Dictatorship

Happeningbros? Do we still have hope?

I don't think that was the original plan but it's Yoon's only hope at this point. It would be wild if he lucked out like that.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

The argument that Diem was a corrupt dictator is just one of those lefty talking points that never die.

diem was corrupt in the same way ashraf ghani and zelensky are corrupt, the graft went into his own pockets instead of being shared with loyalists. the military went to shit and there was no strongarm of the law. the duvaliers of haiti knew to keep the death squads fat and happy and so did korea with the kcis torture and rape squads.

 

[Übertroon]

diem was corrupt in the same way ashraf ghani and zelensky are corrupt, the graft went into his own pockets instead of being shared with loyalists. the military went to shit and there was no strongarm of the law. the duvaliers of haiti knew to keep the death squads fat and happy and so did korea with the kcis torture and rape squads.

There was nothing substantially different between Diem and other leaders in the region.
And the ARVN was doing better under Diem than after he was gone.
In 1962 there were 4,4k ARVN fatalities, 5,6k in 1963, the year he was killed, 7,4k the year after, then 11,2k the next, then 11,9, etc.
Basically ARVN casualties doubled after his death, and that was with escalated US aid and involvement.
During Diem about 9000 US personnel were in Viet Nam, by 1965 that increased to 25 0000.
Diem's death pretty much correlates with shit hitting the fan and the US having to assume direct control as South Viet Nam lost its strongman keeping the shithole together

 

[mindlessobserver]

President Yoon: I am dissolving the legislature and declaring martial law! Only I can save the Republic!

Legislature: Actually we just held a vote that say's you can't do that.

President Yoon: Oh well, if the legislature held a vote well I guess I should just obey then.

LMAO. This nigga was all bark and no bite. Shameful. He should commit Sudoku.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

There was nothing substantially different between Diam and other leaders in the region.

sure there is, diem backed his country's religious minority while oppressing the buddhist majority. Pol Pot backed the racial majority over the racial minorities. that's a huge difference.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

That’s the government estimate, and it’s greatly underestimated. Other organizations provide very different figures.

The government estimate is less than two hundred dead, two thousand some is the high end for the most sympathetic sources. Obviously then you have up to tens of thousands more wounded, abused, arrested, raped, and tortured, which deserve to be mentioned too.

Edit: Just to head off some argument, I’m sure the total extrajudicial and unjust killings under Chun Doo-hwan are up there, but the specific estimate for the Gwangju massacre rarely rises above the hundreds even by modern scholarship estimates. I’m not trying to downplay the brutality of the regime, but I can’t find anyone who said tens of thousands were killed in Gwangju.

 

[Übertroon]

sure there is, diem backed his country's religious minority while oppressing the buddhist majority. Pol Pot backed the racial majority over the racial minorities. that's a huge difference.

Point?
Doesn't change that by every metric Diem was doing better than his successors, doesn't matter that some Buddhist monk killed himself and made some lefty in the US cry, alternative was the north where religious institutions were all banned.

I've never heard a argument for why Diem had to be killed other than whining about corruption, which would include every leader in the region, or whining about him favouring catholics, which is insane when looking at the alternative

 

[Henry V]

Do you guys know if the military/police arrested some of the opposition? Or is that a rumor?

 

[Enoch Emery]

Do you guys know if the military/police arrested some of the opposition? Or is that a rumor?

They were hunting for them but they escaped to the parliament to vote to end martial law and then President for Life Yoon just said "Ok!"

 

[pwnest injun]

If you don't think that the CCP has its fingers deep into gook politics, you're hopeless.