{"id":68267,"date":"2024-12-12T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/12\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-martial-law-insurrection-charges-impeachment"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:19:33","slug":"south-korea-president-defends-martial-law-decree-and-vows-to-fight-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68267","title":{"rendered":"South Korea president defends martial law decree and vows to \u2018fight to the end\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol disputes insurrection charges and calls martial law decreee an \u2018act of governance\u2019 amid reports of a second attempt by police to raid his office<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has vowed to \u201cfight until the end\u201d attempts to remove him from office after his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\"> short-lived imposition of martial law<\/a>, as police reportedly again attempted to raid his office as they investigate him over allegations of insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>In a defiant and lengthy TV address on Thursday, Yoon defended his shock decision last week to impose martial law \u2013 a move designed to suspend political activities and press and civic freedoms \u2013 describing it as a legitimate \u201cact of governance\u201d and denied attempting to foment insurrection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/12\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-martial-law-insurrection-charges-impeachment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol disputes insurrection charges and calls martial law decreee an \u2018act of governance\u2019 amid reports of a second attempt by police to raid his officeSouth Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has vowed to \u201cfight until the end\u201d attempts to remove &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4511,"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-68267","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\/68267","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\/4511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68267\/revisions\/68268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}