{"id":68223,"date":"2024-12-07T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korean-president-aplolgises-for-declaring-martial-law-video"},"modified":"2024-12-07T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T12:17:08","slug":"south-korean-president-apologises-for-declaring-martial-law-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68223","title":{"rendered":"South Korean president apologises for declaring martial law \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, gave a brief televised address to apologise for his surprise decision to declare martial law, which led to widespread protests and calls for his resignation. He said he would not avoid legal or political responsibility but did not step down, saying it was up to his party to determine his tenure. Impeaching Yoon would require support from 200 of the national assembly\u2019s 300 members. The opposition parties that jointly brought the impeachment motion have 192 seats between them <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korean-president-apologises-for-martial-law-attempt-as-impeachment-vote-looms\">South Korean president apologises for martial law attempt as impeachment vote looms<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korea-crisis-live-thousands-rally-outside-parliament-as-president-faces-impeachment-vote\">South Korea crisis live: latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/dec\/07\/south-korean-president-aplolgises-for-declaring-martial-law-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, gave a brief televised address to apologise for his surprise decision to declare martial law, which led to widespread protests and calls for his resignation. He said he would not avoid legal or political responsi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-68223","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\/68223","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68223\/revisions\/68224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}