{"id":68083,"date":"2024-12-04T01:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law"},"modified":"2024-12-04T05:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:58:13","slug":"south-korean-mps-defy-presidents-declaration-of-martial-law-as-crowds-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68083","title":{"rendered":"South Korea gripped by uncertainty as MPs defy president\u2019s declaration of martial law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol says in late-night address that opposition parties have taken parliamentary process hostage as crowds gather<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korea-declares-emergency-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-north-korea-latest-updates\">South Korea \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s parliament and president are locked in a standoff after the president dramatically and unexpectedly declared martial law on Tuesday evening, sparking the most serious challenge to the country\u2019s democracy since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The US said it was watching events in its key Asian ally \u2013 where it has 28,500 troops stationed to guard against North Korea \u2013 with \u201cgrave concern\u201d and hoped that any political disputes would be resolved peacefully and in accordance with the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol says in late-night address that opposition parties have taken parliamentary process hostage as crowds gatherSouth Korea \u2013 live updatesSouth Korea\u2019s parliament and president are locked in a standoff after the president dramatically and une&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68099,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083\/revisions\/68099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}