WATCH: Soldiers arrive at South Korea's parliament after president declares martial law pic.twitter.com/cZX4vsM34y
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I got nothin’, so here’s a thread with background from a South Korean journalist in New York.
And now the order has been reported lifted. (h/t Just a guy)
Apparently it’s already over.
Is the military standing down?
Seems the South Korean President is even less popular than our twit!
This is pretty funny. As Canadians, we used to be proud of our nation and say things like this could -never- happen here. Declaring martial law to quell your political opponents? Crazy! Corruption run amok!
But we don’t say things like that these days. We just look down, scuff the floor with our toe a bit, and nod. “Yep. That’s how they do it here too,” we mutter.
Not a good look … for the S.Korean President to behave like a N.Korean Dear Leader. But something tells me your PM admires Martial Law
South Korea seems to have its own Trudeau.
Do they want another, we can spare one!
In a CBC interview Prime Minister Blackie McSwiftie was quoted as saying
” Pfffft no Horses, no tear gas, no destroying of private property, no multi year jail time without trails? You call this martial law?
A while ado, the Tais raised “coups”to an art form.
Sometimes they got bloody, but often it was not much more than street theatere.
In one particularly nasty one, Australian reporter Neil Davis was killed when a tank opened fire at short range. His dropped video camera kept running; effectively recording his death.. Davis was a REAL REPORTER,unlike the churnalists “gracing” our media today.
The King of Thailand hauled in the miscreants and made them kneel before him while he quietly berated them.
It was an example of the potential power of a generally “hands-off” monarch can act as a “circuit breaker”; the “umpire” respected by almost all.
Parliament went along with it here in Canada.
I was told the situation in Korea was unique. But it turns out to be more like, “Yoon? Eeek!”