{"id":68126,"date":"2024-12-04T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-what-comes-next-president-yoon-suk-yeol"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:43:27","slug":"political-chaos-in-south-korea-what-is-martial-law-and-what-comes-next-after-yoon-suk-yeols-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68126","title":{"rendered":"Political chaos in South Korea: what is martial law and what comes next after Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s U-turn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six hours after stunning the country by declaring martial law, Yoon reversed his decision and faced calls to step down<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Tuesday declared martial law, blasting the opposition as \u201canti-state forces\u201d threatening the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected move from Yoon, marking the first time martial law has been declared in South Korea in more than four decades, alarmed the US and other allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-what-comes-next-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six hours after stunning the country by declaring martial law, Yoon reversed his decision and faced calls to step downSouth Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Tuesday declared martial law, blasting the opposition as \u201canti-state forces\u201d threatening th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-68126","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\/68126","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68127,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68126\/revisions\/68127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}