South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol decreed martial law on December 3, claiming that the measure was necessary to protect the country from “North Korean communist forces” and pro-North Korea “anti-state forces.”
The president of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday. According to the president, this is a necessary measure to protect the country from North Korean communist forces and protect the free constitutional order.
“I declare martial law to protect the free republic of korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free constitutional order,” he said in a surprise televised speech on the channel YTN.
South Korea declared martial law
“Through this emergency martial law“We will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into the abyss of ruin,” he continued, according to the newspaper. Chosun. “To this end, I will definitely crush to the ruinous anti-state forces that have been wreaking havoc until now. It is an inevitable measure to guarantee the freedom and security of the people, the sustainability of the country and inherit future generations an adequate country against the anti-state forces that seek to overthrow the system,” Yoon Suk Yeol emphasized.
“Without regard for people’s livelihoods, the opposition party paralyzed the government solely for the sake of impeachments, special investigations and to protect their leader from justice,” he declared. This surprising move occurs while the Yoon People Power Party and the main opposition party, the Democratic Party, continue arguing over the draft budget law for next year. Opposition MPs approved a significantly reduced budget plan through a parliamentary committee last week.
“Our National Congress became a refuge for criminals, a den of legislative dictatorship that seeks to paralyze the judicial and administrative systems and overthrow our liberal democratic order” Yoon said. He accused opposition lawmakers of cutting “all key budgets essential to the country’s core functions, such as fighting drug-related crimes and maintaining public safety, turning the country into a drug paradise and in a state of chaos in public safety”.
Yoon went on to call the opposition, which has a majority in the 300-member parliament, “anti-state forces who are trying to overthrow the regime” and described his decision as “inevitable”. “I will restore normality in the country by getting rid of anti-state forces as soon as possible,” he stressed.
The urgent requests of the opposition
He Democratic Party has asked its deputies to go to Parliament, the South Korean agency reported Yonhap… Something that doesn’t seem so easy: shortly after, Yonhap reported the closure of Parliament and the prohibition of all political activity.
At the same time, they called for a emergency meeting of its legislators, and the leader of the Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myungwho narrowly lost to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election, called the situation and the announcement “illegal and unconstitutional“.
Source: Ambito
