#Yoon Suk Yeol's drastic decision - announced in a late-night TV broadcast - mentioned “anti-state forces” and the threat from North Korea.
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Why did South Korea's president declare martial law - and what now?
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#South Korea's president shocked the country on Tuesday night when#out of the blue#he declared martial law in the Asian democracy for the first time in nearly 50 years.#Yoon Suk Yeol's drastic decision - announced in a late-night TV broadcast - mentioned “anti-state forces” and the threat from North Korea.#But it soon became clear that it had not been spurred by external threats but by his own desperate political troubles.#Still#it prompted thousands of people to gather at parliament in protest#while opposition lawmakers rushed there to push through an emergency vote to remove the measure.#Defeated#Yoon emerged a few hours later to accept the parliament's vote and lift the martial law order.#Now#lawmakers will vote on whether to impeach him over what the country's main opposition has called his “insurrectionary behaviour”.
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