{"id":68162,"date":"2024-12-05T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/thursday-briefing-south-korea-martial-law-first-edition"},"modified":"2024-12-05T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:45:36","slug":"thursday-briefing-what-the-martial-law-attempt-means-for-south-koreas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68162","title":{"rendered":"Thursday briefing: What the martial law attempt means for South Korea\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s shock declaration \u2013 and subsequent reversal \u2013 has sent South Korea into political chaos, and left their president facing impeachment<\/p>\n<p>Good morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon-suk-yeol-calls-to-resign-ntwnfb\">South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is facing impeachment<\/a> after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul\u2019s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law on Tuesday. The move stirred memories of past dictatorships in the country, moving thousands to come out on to the streets and protest, with the military powerless, or unwilling, to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties submitted an impeachment motion hours after parliament unanimously voted to cancel Yoon\u2019s declaration, forcing him to lift martial law just six hours after it began. Impeaching Yoon requires the support of two-thirds of the national assembly and at least six of the nine constitutional court justices. The liberal opposition Democratic party holds a majority in the 300-seat parliament and has called for Yoon\u2019s resignation. A vote on his impeachment could come as early as tomorrow. Today we\u2019ll look at what happened and why. But first, here are the headlines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/thursday-briefing-south-korea-martial-law-first-edition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s shock declaration \u2013 and subsequent reversal \u2013 has sent South Korea into political chaos, and left their president facing impeachmentGood morning. South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is facing impeachment after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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-68162","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\/68162","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68162\/revisions\/68175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}