South Korea President Yoon declares martial law

Yoon mentioned he had no preference however to resort to this kind of measure in expose heart’s contents to safeguard free and constitutional expose, asserting opposition parties accumulate taken hostage of the parliamentary direction of to throw the country into a crisis

Reuters

03 December, 2024, 08:05 pm

Final modified: 03 December, 2024, 08:09 pm

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial regulations in an unannounced leisurely evening address broadcast are living on YTN television.

Yoon mentioned he had no preference however to resort to this kind of measure in expose heart’s contents to safeguard free and constitutional expose, asserting opposition parties accumulate taken hostage of the parliamentary direction of to throw the country into a crisis.

“I expose martial regulations to present protection to the free Republic of Korea from the possibility of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the rotten expert-North Korean anti-express forces which would maybe well well be plundering the liberty and happiness of our of us, and to present protection to the free constitutional expose,” Yoon mentioned.

He didn’t express in the address what explicit measures would maybe be taken.

Yoon cited a motion by the country’s opposition Democratic Event, which has a majority in parliament, this week to impeach a couple of of the country’s high prosecutors and its rejection of a authorities budget proposal.