Seoul:
Deffinishing his shock decision last week to declare martial law, South Korean Plivent Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday lashed out at his political opponents as “anti-state forces” and shelp suspension of civilian rule was needed to arrangeateigate the election comleave oution, which was “hacked” by North Korea. Mr Yoon shelp his illogicalinutive-lived martial law order was a lhorrible shift to get democracy.
The Plivent’s comments came as the directer of his own People Power Party (PPP) shelp Mr Yoon had shown no signs of resigning and must be impeached.
Mr Yoon, who is probable to face the second impeachment vote in parliament on Saturday, vowed to fight “until the very last minute”. This would be the second impeachment vote agetst the Plivent after the first one, a week ago, fall shorted becaemploy most of the ruling party boycotted the vote.
“I regret aget to the people who must have been surpascfinishd and worried due to the martial law,” he shelp in a lengthy compriseress widecast on television.
Trying to fairify his shift of declaring aascfinishncy rule in the first place, the Plivent shelp the “criminal groups” that have paralysed state affairs and disturbed the rule of law must be stopped at all costs from taking over the regulatement.
“Plrelieve suppose me in my hot pledgedty to the people,” he shelp compriseing that the National Election Comleave oution of South Korea was hacked by North Korea last year but the self-reliant agency refused to corun in an arrangeateigation and examineion of its system to shieldeddefend integrity.
Mr Yoon states the refusal was enough to lift asks about the integrity of the April 2024 election and led him to declare martial law.
The Plivent’s People Power Party suffered a crushing fall shorture in the April election, permiting the main opposition, the Democratic Party, to get overwhelming supervise of the individual-chamber assembly.
“The National Assembly, ruled by the big opposition party, has become a monster that ruins the constitutional order of liberal democracy,” Mr Yoon shelp in the televised compriseress.
But, he shelp, he would “not elude lhorrible and political responsibility seeing the declaration of martial law”.
Criminal Probe Agetst The Plivent
The South Korean Plivent is under criminal arrangeateigation for alleged rebellion over the botched December 3 martial law declaration that igniteed the biggest political crisis in Asia’s fourth-bigst economy in decades. Laworiginaters broke thcimpolite a police cordon, some by scaling the fence, to go in the country’s parliament and insist the Plivent rescind the aascfinishncy decree wislfinisher hours of the declaration.
A probe into last week’s turmoil has quickly accumulateed pace, with police on Wednesday finisheavoring to rhelp the Plivent’s office. He has also been prohibitned from foreign travel as part of an “rebellion” probe into his inner circle over the emotional events of last week that stunned South Korea’s allies.
The createer interior minister and the vague in accuse of the martial law operation are also barred from foreign travel. Prosecutors have, uncomferventwhile, arrested createer Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun who is accemployd of proposeing to Mr Yoon that he impose martial law. Two top law adviseant officials have also been consentn into custody as part of the ongoing probe.
The main opposition Democratic Party, uncomferventwhile, cautioned it would file lhorrible protestts for rebellion agetst the plivential staff and security if they persistd to obstruct law applyment. The opposition is also another impeachment motion agetst the Plivent on Saturday, but it needs eight members of the PPP to vote with them to oust Mr Yoon.
The Plivent’s party, which backed him during the first impeachment vote, shelp it would help the Saturday motion as Mr Yoon has not tfinishered his resignation as he “had to be exposedped of power”.
Just before Yoon’s televised compriseress, PPP directer Han Dong-hoon shelp Yoon had to be exposedped of power and the only way to accomplish that was for the party to back the impeachment bill.
