What We’ve Learned About the Alleged Plan to Provoke North Korea for Martial Law

What we’ve learned about the alleged plan to provoke North Korea for martial law

Exactly one year ago, South Korea was rocked by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s late-night martial law declaration, which cited the need to protect the country from “pro-North Korea” forces. But while Yoon’s short-lived order seemed to come from nowhere, a slow drip of new evidence over the last year has suggested that imposing martial law […]

Year after martial law crisis, president addresses foreign media

Marking the first anniversary of former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s abrupt declaration of martial law and the ensuing national crisis, President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday invited more than 80 foreign correspondents to a press conference at Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul. The press briefing, which began at 10 a.m. and lasted about 70 minutes, was open exclusively to reporters with foreign media outlets. Korean media had a separate opportunity earl…

South Korea’s Lee says on martial law anniversary perpetrators must face justice

The attempt to impose martial law threatened to deal an irreparable setback to the country, he said. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A year after South Korea’s martial law crisis, the president urges unity, but the wounds are still raw

… anti-state forces” and election fraud threatened national security. … snap election that brought Lee to power. The former president, … claims that elections were “stolen” and that China had assisted … “China out”. A supporter of South Korea’s ousted president Yoon …