President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s alarming attempt to impose his will could hardly be worse-timed for a key Asian power <\/p>\n
The South Korean president\u2019s bizarre, appalling and short-lived attempt to impose martial law<\/a> last week is still wreaking havoc. Police attempted to raid Yoon\u00a0Suk\u00a0Yeol\u2019s office<\/a> on Wednesday as they investigate him for a potential offence of insurrection. His party says he will hand power to the prime minister and party chief; others call that an unconstitutional \u201csecond coup\u201d. It is a measure of the country\u2019s progress since democratisation in the 1980s that the main opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, initially thought the president\u2019s announcement had been deep-faked, and now describes it<\/a> as \u201cpreposterous\u201d.<\/p>\n Mr Yoon claimed without evidence that martial law was necessary to eradicate the threat from \u201cdespicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces\u201d \u2013 meaning the opposition. Though other conservatives share his bitter conviction that the left are Pyongyang-sympathisers, most people believe the decision primarily reflected his erratic and personalised rule. A political outsider<\/a>, he made his name as a top anti-corruption prosecutor, but grew angry at scrutiny of his wife\u2019s conduct as well as parliamentary obstruction of his policies. Despite his dismal approval ratings he seems to have thought that the people would back him. Within six hours, he was forced to U-turn.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s alarming attempt to impose his will could hardly be worse-timed for a key Asian power The South Korean president\u2019s bizarre, appalling and short-lived attempt to impose martial law last week is still wreaking havoc. Police attempted to raid Yoon\u00a0Suk\u00a0Yeol\u2019s office on Wednesday as they investigate him for a potential offence of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}