{"id":68102,"date":"2024-12-04T05:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition"},"modified":"2024-12-04T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:03:33","slug":"south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68102","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s president lifts martial law in the face of united opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rightwing president backs down after most serious challenge to country\u2019s democracy since 1980s<\/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\">Live updates: President Yoon urged to explain his decision <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s rightwing president has been forced to back down after he unexpectedly declared martial law only to face unanimous opposition from the national assembly, in the most serious challenge to the country\u2019s democracy since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">declared martial law late on Tuesday<\/a> amid a dispute with opposition parties he accused of pro-North Korean sympathies and anti-state activities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rightwing president backs down after most serious challenge to country\u2019s democracy since 1980sLive updates: President Yoon urged to explain his decision South Korea\u2019s rightwing president has been forced to back down after he unexpectedly declared marti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4504,"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-68102","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\/68102","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\/4504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68128,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68102\/revisions\/68128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}