General News Regarding Japan and Korea

[r16]

a pity , ı will have to stamp on my prediliction to be pro North these days due to South Korean robbery of Defence contracts thing . For a while ... Will two days be enough ?

 

[Kaitzilla]

What's happening in South Korea?

Emergency Martial Law.

'I'm scared to speak': President's martial law declaration shocks Korea

Korea fell into an immediate shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law against "antistate forces," with citizens in panicking over the unprecedented political move.

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com

Online communities were immediately flooded with comments worrying about the impacts of the declaration, whether it would be possible for the majority Democratic Party (DP) to lift the declaration the next day. The exchange rate jumped all over and cryptocurrency trading platforms froze due to traffic overload.

The National Assembly will vote to overturn it.

DP summoned its representatives to the National Assembly in western Seoul but were blocked by police, according to media reports.

Or not.

Didn't the King of France do the same thing before The French Revolution?
Lock the building?
Didn't work for very long.

 

[Kaitzilla]

CNN is doing updates today.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/martial-law-south-korea-intl/index.html

People are being told by law enforcement that they can be arrested without warrants being needed, Valerio reported.

This is the first time that martial law has been declared in the country since it was ruled by a military dictatorship in the 1980s.

“There are whole multitudes of people across (Seoul) who are stunned and are trying to figure out how an unpopular president made this move, what is going to happen next, and what this means for a democracy here in South Korea,” he said.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just saw that SK's Parliament voted 190 to overturn martial law. I confess I don't follow SK politics enough to have any idea what's up here.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-parliament-votes-require-yoon-lift-martial-law-2024-12-03/

 

[gdr_willter]

The National Assembly of ROK can remove the martial law by the majority agreement, 151 yay per 300 total. So legally the martial law was removed after the vote of the National Assembly. President Yoon didn't answer yet.

 

[Lexicus]

It looks like organized protest (direct action, which a lot of people on this website really hate) physically prevented the military from entering Parliament.

 

[Broken_Erika]

South Koreans celebrate as Yoon withdraws martial law troops​

Moments after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeolannounced he would lift the martial law people outside the National Assemblycelebrated, the AFP news agency reports.

Itadds that Yoon says martial law troops have withdrawn after the NationalAssembly voted to block his imposition of military rule.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

 

[Takhisis]

One of the worst-planned coups ever, it seems.

It looks like organized protest (direct action, which a lot of people on this website really hate) physically prevented the military from entering Parliament.

Maybe if launched at 2:30 a.m. instead of 10 p.m. it would've succeeded?

 

[Lexicus]

Maybe if launched at 2:30 a.m. instead of 10 p.m. it would've succeeded?

Possible. I don't know enough to say.

 

[Takhisis]

It does look as if the president had scheduled the coup to take place when everybody was home and wouldn't come out and protest.