South Korea declares martial law

[HVC]

So... if the north was ever to invade now would be the opportune moment.

[Sheilbh]

And on the unions, Korean TUC launching an indefinite general strike and mobilisation for protest until the President and his supporters step down.

[Zanza]

Supposedly the president said that he will accept the parliamentary vote and let ft martial law.

[Sheilbh]

So basically a YOLO coup?

[HVC]

So basically a YOLO coup?

All the cool kids are doing it.

[Grey Fox]

That was a wild 7 hours.

[Sheilbh]

Amid all this, the response of the military seems less than idea even if they're standing down now:

Yonhap: Joint Chiefs of Staff announce troops deployed to Seoul will return to their original units and the disbandment of Martial Law Command

[Admiral Yi]

So I'm not master of Korean history but I seem to recall that from the Korean War up until the 1980s South Korea was various flavours of military dictatorship.

Starting in 1961.

My entire childhood was spent under military dictatorship. 

[mongers]

So I'm not master of Korean history but I seem to recall that from the Korean War up until the 1980s South Korea was various flavours of military dictatorship.

Starting in 1961.

My entire childhood was spent under military dictatorship. 

Quick Yi, sire a child now and she or he too can suffer the childhood their father endured.   

[HVC]

A CBC summary of the lead up to the short lived dictatorship

[Legbiter]

Yeah also being the President of SK has to be one of the most cursed positions on Earth looking over his predecessors. 

[jimmy olsen]

A total shock, no one expected it.

I was watching this last night and the fact that the networks were broadcasting and the internet was up and the troops didn't go in guns blazing against the blockers at the doors told me everything I needed to know about how serious the military rank and file and their officers were taking this coup, not very.

They were preformatively following orders in the most inefficient manner possible without being directly insubordinate. Just waiting things out until the assembly could get a qurom together and vote it down.

If they were really serious they could have easily stopped that from happening.   

This was Yoon flailing around and throwing a hail Mary to avoid impeachment. Frankly, before this fiasco I was skeptical it was going to happen, even with his approval rate at 17~19 percent. The bar is high, and President Park managed to pass it via some unique circumstances.

Obviously he's sunk now. The leader of the PPP in the legislature was immediately on Facebook denouncing this as an unconstitutional power grab and demanding the military not listen.

[jimmy olsen]

Some good English Language News sources for Korea.

https://www.koreaherald.com/

https://en.yna.co.kr/

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www2/index.asp

[HisMajestyBOB]

A total shock, no one expected it.

I was watching this last night and the fact that the networks were broadcasting and the internet was up and the troops didn't go in guns blazing against the blockers at the doors told me everything I needed to know about how serious the military rank and file and their officers were taking this coup, not very.

They were preformatively following orders in the most inefficient manner possible without being directly insubordinate. Just waiting things out until the assembly could get a qurom together and vote it down.

If they were really serious they could have easily stopped that from happening.   

This was Yoon flailing around and throwing a hail Mary to avoid impeachment. Frankly, before this fiasco I was skeptical it was going to happen, even with his approval rate at 17~19 percent. The bar is high, and President Park managed to pass it via some unique circumstances.

Obviously he's sunk now. The leader of the PPP in the legislature was immediately on Facebook denouncing this as an unconstitutional power grab and demanding the military not listen.

So voters will reelect him in four years.

[HVC]

A total shock, no one expected it.

I was watching this last night and the fact that the networks were broadcasting and the internet was up and the troops didn't go in guns blazing against the blockers at the doors told me everything I needed to know about how serious the military rank and file and their officers were taking this coup, not very.

They were preformatively following orders in the most inefficient manner possible without being directly insubordinate. Just waiting things out until the assembly could get a qurom together and vote it down.

If they were really serious they could have easily stopped that from happening.   

This was Yoon flailing around and throwing a hail Mary to avoid impeachment. Frankly, before this fiasco I was skeptical it was going to happen, even with his approval rate at 17~19 percent. The bar is high, and President Park managed to pass it via some unique circumstances.

Obviously he's sunk now. The leader of the PPP in the legislature was immediately on Facebook denouncing this as an unconstitutional power grab and demanding the military not listen.

So voters will reelect him in four years.

No nation would be dumb enough to reelect a president who tried and failed a coup.


Oh wait.