{"id":68812,"date":"2025-01-08T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/communist-spies-and-assassination-attempts-how-the-cold-war-still-shapes-south-korean-politics-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:42:06","slug":"communist-spies-and-assassination-attempts-how-the-cold-war-still-shapes-south-korean-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68812","title":{"rendered":"Communist spies and assassination attempts: how the cold war still shapes South Korean politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attitudes to North Korea are key to understanding President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s attempt to impose martial law and its aftermath<\/p>\n

As South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remains barricaded<\/a> in his residence facing arrest<\/a>, his descent from star prosecutor<\/a> to isolated leader reveals a deeper story about a cold war-era ideology that continues to shape \u2013 and shake \u2013 South Korean politics.<\/p>\n

The scenes outside his residence might look familiar to audiences who followed Trump-era politics: supporters waving American flags<\/a> claiming democracy is under threat, decrying \u201cfake news\u201d, rallying against alleged election fraud, and calls to \u201cmake Korea great again\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Attitudes to North Korea are key to understanding President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s attempt to impose martial law and its aftermathAs South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remains barricaded in his residence facing arrest, his descent from star prosecutor to is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68812","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68812\/revisions\/68813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}