{"id":9313,"date":"2024-12-03T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/s-korean-parliament-rejects-martial-law-in-s-korea\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:47:41","slug":"s-korean-parliament-rejects-martial-law-in-s-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/s-korean-parliament-rejects-martial-law-in-s-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korean parliament rejects martial law in S Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5274199.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate \u201canti-state\u201d forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls the country\u2019s parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, parliament voted to lift the declaration, with the National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik declaring that lawmakers \u201cwill protect democracy with the people.\u201d Woo called for police and military personnel to withdraw from the Assembly\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s surprising move harkened back to an era of authoritarian leaders that the country has not seen since the 1980s, and it was immediately denounced by the opposition and the leader of Yoon\u2019s own conservative party.<\/p>\n<p>Following Yoon\u2019s announcement, South Korea\u2019s military proclaimed that parliament and other political gatherings that could cause \u201csocial confusion\u201d would be suspended, according to South Korea\u2019s Yonhap news agency cited by AP.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225210\/S-Korean-parliament-rejects-martial-law-in-S-Korea\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate \u201canti-state\u201d forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls the country\u2019s parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea, AP reported. Hours later, parliament voted to lift the declaration, with the National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}