{"id":75489,"date":"2025-12-03T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/south-korea-martial-law-president-urges-unity"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:01:21","slug":"a-year-after-south-koreas-martial-law-crisis-the-president-urges-unity-but-the-wounds-are-still-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75489","title":{"rendered":"A year after South Korea\u2019s martial law crisis, the president urges unity, but the wounds are still raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Lee praised South Koreans for overcoming \u2018an unprecedented democratic crisis in world history\u2019 but some fears its society is becoming increasingly polarised<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s President Lee Jae Myung has marked the anniversary of an attempt to impose martial law by declaring that those behind the bid to topple its democracy must face justice, while adding that the fight to secure the country remains unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations and trials of those who participated are still ongoing,\u201d Lee said in a televised address. He pledged that \u201crighteous unity\u201d would be possible only once accountability was delivered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/south-korea-martial-law-president-urges-unity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Lee praised South Koreans for overcoming \u2018an unprecedented democratic crisis in world history\u2019 but some fears its society is becoming increasingly polarisedSouth Korea\u2019s President Lee Jae Myung has marked the anniversary of an attempt to impo&#8230;<\/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":[3332,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-jae-myung","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\/75489","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=75489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75489\/revisions\/75490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}