https://www.youtube.com/watch/jEJ3WiZJduk Why South Korea’s president declared martial law | Ian Bremmer’s Quick Take
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea deciding to suddenly declare emergency martial law, announcing together with the military all political activities prohibited. All media now under state control. No strikes, demonstrations allowed. Ian Bremmer breaks down the reason for this decision in this Quick Take.

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Ian Bremmer’s Quick Take:

Hi, everybody. Ian Bremmer here from Mexico City, but talking about South Korea, which is not what anyone was expecting today. President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea deciding to suddenly declare emergency martial law, announcing together with the military all political activities prohibited. All media now under state control. No strikes, demonstrations allowed. Basically, the President of South Korea declaring that his country is North Korea, at least for a few hours. But of course, South Korea is not North Korea. It is a vibrant democracy with strong institutions, and the parliament is in strong opposition of what he is doing, as are the people.

President Yoon had said that the reason for this is that the opposition is supporting North Korea and that there are North Korean forces that have been infiltrating the South Korean opposition. It is true that this opposition, this is by the way the ruling party in parliament, supports the “Sunshine Policy” and Yoon’s government is hard line on North Kore. But there’s no evidence of any North Korean infiltration or involvement. What there is evidence of is that President Yoon is incredibly unpopular. Lots of corruption scandals around his family, around his government, approval ratings in the 20s, which is pretty much the lowest you’ll see of any advanced industrial democracy today. Though there are a number of countries that are trying to give him a hard run for it.

The opposition party, the ruling party in parliament, has been pushing really hard to make his life miserable. They have investigated his wife. They’ve tried to impeach a number of cabinet officials. They’re refusing to pass the budget and apparently he just couldn’t take it anymore. I’ll tell you, nobody expected it. Aside from the military leaders that he coordinated with, senior government officials were shocked by the move. Our parliamentarians were shocked by the move. This isn’t like January 8th in Brazil where it was clear that Bolsonaro was going to do everything he could try to overturn the elections. Just as it was clear January 6th in the United States that Trump was going to do everything he could to overturn election.

This is a very different situation. This was a very sudden move. It is perfectly legal to declare martial law, but you have to actually pre-notify the National Assembly, which he did not do, so it wasn’t done legally. You also need 151 lawmakers to approve martial law within 72 hours. That isn’t going to happen. The next thing that’s very likely to occur are lots of demonstrations and it’s very hard to imagine that the military would violently break them up. This isn’t Pakistan. And we also saw an emergency session that they got a majority for of National Assembly lawmakers that all 190 voted to end this. So I think what’s going to happen is President Yoon is going to wake up tomorrow with a really bad hangover, certainly a political one, maybe others too, and going to realize that he did something incredibly stupid, overreached, and has destroyed any remaining legacy that he might have had.

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