I wonder what consequences the SK military will face. If the South Korean had any balls, which they haven't, they would probably amend the constitution to make them fall under parliamentary control instead of the president.
>The government of south korea inexplicably collapsed into full on military martial law, on a random fucking Tuesday in december
what in the geopolitical FUCK is going on rn?
how did this happen?
of all possible (insert nation collapsed) SK wouldnt have been on the bingo card for me
I'm glad anons are finally learning what a tin pot republic South Korea is.
For most its history, it was barely less repressive than North Korea. You could be "disappeared" for saying something negative about the president. They even kidnapped a democracy activist from Tokyo and threw him in prison despite not actually doing much of substance against the government besides advocating for democracy.
>>2058988what a retard
he was obviously alone on this (with one or two idiots he put in positions of power), there was 0 support from the usa or even his own party
he thought he might get away with it because it used to be routine 30 years ago and it was likely his only way to avoid getting impeached and ending in jail
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20241212070400001?input=tw
> (Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Hye-won = In addition, lawmakers of the Democratic Party of Korea (MDP) said on 12 March that President Yoon Suk-yeol's speech to the nation was "a river of insurrection" and called for his arrest and detention as well as impeachment of the president as soon as possible.
>In a Facebook post, Rep. Park Ji-won wrote, "Yoon Suk-yeol, you're still crazy. We cannot entrust the presidency to a lunatic to take command of the military even for one second," he said, urging "the Ministry of Public Security and the police to immediately arrest Yoon Suk-yeol, the leader of the insurrection."
>Rep. Kim Tae-yon said, "The fact that a lunatic confessed to rebellion and a leader of the rebellion appears before the people in his capacity as president is a crime in itself and a secondary offense," adding, "The Public Investigation Agency and the National Investigation Headquarters should immediately arrest and detain Yoon Suk-yeol."
>Rep. Lee In-young also said, "It's a crazy discourse following crazy martial law. It's like stealing and 'rehearsing,' but martial law is a joke," he said, adding, "Impeachment is really the answer. We have to see the end on Saturday."
>Rep. Chung Tae-ho criticized the president, saying, "Justifying one's accusations of insurrection with the logic of the president's act of governance is a relic of the days of the military dictatorship," and "it reveals a psychotic level of perception of reality."
>Rep. Jang Kyung-tae said, "This is a discourse that provokes public anger by a 'far-right YouTuber fanatic,'" adding, "Even after listening to Yoon Suk-yeol's crazy words, the people's power won't impeach him. We must bring that cultist out this week."
>"A rebel and megalomaniac, paranoid, brazenly justified his crimes and intimidated the people and the opposition party by chanting 'mad sword dances,'" Cho Kuk, chairman of the Fatherland Innovation Party, said, adding, "He should be impeached immediately, not Saturday." According to journalist Kim Eo-jun, part of the plan was to kill Han Dong-hoon, the leader of the ruling party, and frame North Korea.
https://www.msn.com/ko-kr/entertainment/%EC%9D%BC%EB%B0%98/%EA%B9%80%EC%96%B4%EC%A4%80-%ED%95%9C%EB%8F%99%ED%9B%88-%EC%82%AC%EC%82%B4-%EC%A0%9C%EB%B3%B4-%ED%8F%AD%EB%A1%9C-%EC%83%9D%ED%99%94%ED%95%99-%ED%85%8C%EB%9F%AC%EA%B9%8C%EC%A7%80/ar-AA1vMxLy
>On that day, Choi Min-hee, the head of the National Defense Commission, asked, “Aside from the assassination squad for politicians, have you received any other tip?” Kim Eo-jun answered, “There was a plan to ‘kill Han Dong-hoon who was arrested and transported,’ and ‘pretend to attack and rescue the unit where Cho Kuk, Yang Jeong-cheol, and Kim Eo-jun were arrested and transported, and then escape. ’”
>He continued, “I also heard that there was a plan to ‘bury North Korean military uniforms in a specific location,’ and ‘find the uniforms after a certain point in time and announce that it was North Korea’s doing. ’ There was also a plan to ‘kill several US soldiers and induce the US to bomb North Korea. ’”>>2075454What does South Korean propaganda look like?
I tried to look it up, but when I search for South Korean propaganda, it only shows North Korean propaganda.
>>2079292It looks like regular news but it's actually biased corporate media that dominates the landscape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chojoongdonghttps://www.chosun.com/There's also KBS which is literally the government. During this administration, the heads of the major news networks were pretty much appointed by the president.
Was South Korea’s coup an attempt to restart the Korean War?https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/13/was-south-koreas-coup-an-attempt-to-restart-the-korean-war/
>In Seoul, the garbage balloons triggered a series of escalatory actions over the course of the summer. But in October, a new line was crossed. For the first time, North Korea reported a series of drone incursions into its territory—an allegation which South Korea’s Defense Ministry stated it could not confirm at the time. The incident led to Pyongyang detonating roads and bridges at the DMZ in an attempt to forestall potential invasion. Now, lawmakers are alleging the drone incursion may have been part of a months-long effort to trigger a military response from North Korea that would end in a “limited war.”
>On Sunday, December 8, a military container used to house drones and launchers caught fire. The next day, Democratic Party lawmaker Park Beom-gye announced he had received a tip from a military whistleblower alleging South Korea’s armed forces were responsible for the drone incursion in October. On December 10, Kim Yong-dae, head of Drone Operations Command, submitted to questioning by parliament. He explained to lawmaker Kim Byung-joo that the fire was caused by a short circuit. However, when Kim Byung-joo inquired who ordered Drone Operations Command to send a drone to Pyongyang, Kim Yong-dae replied, “I cannot confirm that.” Kim Yong-dae provided an identical answer to the lawmaker’s follow-up question inquiring where the drones had been launched from. This prompted Kim Byung-Joo to accuse the military of setting the fire in order to destroy evidence of the drone incursion. >>2081208What's certain is that they launched a full scale provocation - apparently drones were never used before, at least not flying over Pyongyang - and they really hoped the North would have escalated. But they kept their cool and only kept sending balloons full of rubbish, which they have been doing for months to respond to the balloons with anti-DPRK propaganda the South abitually sends.
Also, crazy Yoon has been openly accusing the liberal centrist opposition to be "communists" and "North Korean agents" just because they are against his fucked up hostile posture against the DPRK. He's been a lame duck for his entire presidency and will be until the end, because when he was elected two and a half years ago, the opposition controlled the National Assembly. Then, earlier this year they won again a majority in the National Assembly, which they will keep unitl 2028. In the meantime, his term is scheduled to end in 2027, after five years. The NA can't be dissolved earlier and a president can only ever serve one term, without any possibility of re-election. He's a loser, he's crazy, he's considered far-right even by most on the mainstream right, he's a free market fundamentalist while the right there tends to be economically interventionist at least in favor of the big trusts (chaebol) and he's a huge weeaboo, while also having an hate boner for China and Russia. Really, only deranged "new right" types are the ones liking him, he's always had the lowest approval ratings of any president in the last forty years and even before the martial law fiasco, more than half of respondents to opinion polls said he should resign or be removed through impeachment.
>>2081208I don't think they thought or hoped for any kind of invasion. Maybe something more like the exchange of strikes between Israel and its adversaries in the middle east–something big and explosive enough, maybe with a few unfortunate casualties here and there, that they could justify their aggression without the danger of actually having to fight a ground war.
More likely than not they just wanted a window where the US could strike at NK weapon production facilities without being labeled the aggressor.
>>2081223> and they really hoped the North would have escalated. But they kept their cool and only kept sending balloons full of rubbish,They sent more than that, anon, they sent searing hot burns like:
<Now, within the puppet regime, there is an open rumor going around that the puppet Yoon Seok-yeol is doing politics worse than a dog, and that “even if a dog rules, it would be better than this.”<In response, animal lovers in Korea are protesting, saying that comparing Yoon Seok-yeol to a dog is not an insult to the president, but rather an insult to the dog.<Even dogs in the countryside recognize their owners, but those who are involved in politics but don't know the people are worse than dogs.and
<the puppet Yoon Seok-yeol, who has turned the Republic of Korea into a “ruined nation” with his innate ignorance and incompetence and stinking corruption that astonishes the world, and a death sentence from heaven that touches it terrifyingly.The article from last month:
>>2010047 https://www.ft.com/content/125f5537-3d46-41e5-81e9-26b8fc4968eb>The leftwing firebrand who could be South Korea’s next leader>Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung seen as frontrunner in potential electionThis statement isn't quite accurate. He only has a hardcore group of supporters and he's hated by the centrists who will decide the election. Also, the conservative regions are more populous than the liberal ones. Lee is only polling like 35% even with actions of the ruling party and the president and the public ire they drew.
If the ruling party chooses a decent candidate, they can easily stop Lee.
They might also use the law to prevent him from running:
>In September 2023, Seoul prosecutors sought another motion to arrest Lee on corruption charges for giving special favours to a land developer in the Baekhyeon-dong neighbourhood and sending 8 million dollars to North Korea through the Ssangbangwool Group. On 21 September, the Democratic-majority National Assembly approved the motion, with a 149–136 vote, with dozens of his own party members voting to arrest him. They've been putting this off for a while
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-president-martial-law-yoon-warrant-4cf80153a9bd333147afb746adb49433
>It’s the first time a warrant has been issued to detain a sitting South Korean president. But experts say there is little chance of detention or searches unless Yoon is formally removed from office.
>The Seoul Western District Court issued warrants to detain Yoon and to search the presidential office and residence in central Seoul, according to a statement from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities.That's cool considering the police and military are also obviously compromised.
>>2101784The military is protecting him, I'd assume because they were in on it and if he gets prosecuted his collaborators are gonna go down too.
>>2101772What a cuck.
According to Realmeter, approval for the PPP is now at 40.8% while approval for the Democratic Party is at 42.2%.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20250113026800001The PPP is throwing a tantrum and claiming the opposition leader is responsible for the crisis and is more of a danger than Yoon. Enough of the people believe them for this to be an issue because the faster Yoon's case is dealt with, the faster the next election, and the better it is for the opposition leader's chances of winning.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-anti-corruption-agency-resume-questioning-yoon-thursday-afternoon-2025-01-15/>South Korea's arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol did not attend a second day of questioning by investigators on Thursday, further stonewalling a criminal probe into whether he committed insurrection with his bid to impose martial law.<He remained in the centre on Thursday, with his lawyer citing his health as a factor for his absence from the questioning. The investigators did not elaborate on why they did not compel him to attend.https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20250117053852001according to Gallup Korea:
>People Power Party 39%, Democratic Party 36%The percentage of people who prefer opposition leader Lee Jae-myung as the future leader dropped to 31%. Support for ruling party candidates adds up to over 10% more than support for Lee.
>>2112566I heard that Gallup and Realmeter results are always skewed in favor of conservatives.
>>2122913I looked him up. He is being charged with taking money from property developers during his mayorship ten years ago (why wasn't he prosecuted back then?) and sending money to North Korea (most likely totally made up). He survived an assassination attempt last year, not to mention that supposedly Yoon also had plans to kill him when he tried to enact martial law. Meanwhile Yoon is walking free after trying to install himself as a dictator.
It seems to me that this is a typical case of the center chastising the left for not wanting to be exterminated by a right-wing dictatorship because that would make them just as fascist, like how it is in most Latin American countries.
>>2199936Oh I guess if they were impeached and jailed it would be no.
Sorry tired.
massive wildfires in occupied Korea. some of the largest and most destructive on record
>On March 26, 2025, a devastating wildfire that began in South Gyeongsang Province spread perilously into Jirisan National Park, prompting urgent evacuations and resulting in the tragic crash of a firefighting helicopter, which led to the death of its pilot.
>The fire, which started on March 21, was set off due to negligence by a local silkworm farmer, and harsh conditions have exacerbated its spread. According to the Korea Forest Service, by the afternoon of March 26, the flames had moved approximately 200 meters into the national park, with fire lines extending around 300 meters. As residents faced increasing danger, a total of 1,732 people from 1,025 households were evacuated due to the rapidly encroaching flames.https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1189279.htmlUnique IPs: 65