South Korea declares martial law

[jimmy olsen]

So voters will reelect him in four years.

Lol, this is the ROK. Like half of their presidents have been jailed for corruption since 1988, they will not treat him with kid gloves.

[Syt]

So voters will reelect him in four years.

Lol, this is the ROK. Like half of their presidents have been jailed for corruption since 1988, they will not treat him with kid gloves.

But does that spell the end of their political careers? Those can be two different things.

[HVC]

The (Russian?) conspiracy machine is off and running. The main one seems to be that the Chinese and North Korean spies have infiltrated the opposition that that the president was trying to enact stricter anti-spying measures and was being block by said spies hence his need for martial law.

[jimmy olsen]

One of the main culprits resigned

https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241205002400315?section=national/politics

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, the presidential office said Thursday, amid growing controversy surrounding his role in Yoon's aborted martial law declaration.

Kim, who proposed the martial law declaration to Yoon, offered to step down Wednesday, after Yoon abruptly declared martial law Tuesday night and lifted the decree hours later following the National Assembly's passage of a resolution to overturn it.

Yoon has nominated Choi Byung-huk, a retired four-star general currently serving as South Korea's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to succeed Kim, Chung Jin-suk, Yoon's chief of staff, said in a press briefing.