Yoon Suk Yeol’s gamble on nostalgia for authoritarianism proves foolhardy
South Korean president miscalculated by thinking some MPs would back his declaration of martial law
In attempting to declare martial law, South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sought to awaken ghosts that the rest of the country thought had been laid to rest for good.
The last time martial law was declared, in 1980, hundreds of people were killed by the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan, who sent protesters to a concentration camp for “purificatory education”.
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