Botched martial law declaration spells end of political career, say analysts.
Soldiers leaving the National Assembly after South Korea's Parliament passed a motion requiring the martial law declared by President Yoon Suk Yeol to be lifted, on Dec 4.
Speaking from the presidential office in Seoul, Mr Yoon said that martial law was necessary to protect the nation “from the threats of the North Korean communist forces, and to eradicate the shameless pro-North anti-state forces that plunder the freedom and happiness” of South Koreans. Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung rallied his party members to gather at the National Assembly for an emergency plenary session to vote against martial law.
The last time South Korea came under martial law was in 1980, when then President Chun Doo-hwan declared martial law on May 17, 1980, as student anti-government protests were spreading throughout the country. Mr Sean King, Asia specialist at New York-based consulting firm Park Strategies, called it a “hugely disappointing move by an apparently desperate” Mr Yoon.
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