Protests are breaking out in Seoul, South Korea, over the president's failed attempt at imposing marital law. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer has more on the uproar and the upcoming impeachment vote.
SEOUL, South Korea — When South Koreans came out to defend democracy this week in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history was weighing heavily on their minds. South Korea, a key U.S. ally, is the world’s 10th-largest economy and a vibrant Asian democracy in a region where authoritarianism is on the rise.
” Yoon may have taken a different lesson from South Korean history, said Rob York, director for regional affairs at Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute in Honolulu. During South Korea’s period of military dictatorship, “there were a couple of coups that took place that were designed to break gridlock, I guess you could say, and take decisive action to shore up the country’s future,” York said. “I think that’s what Yoon was trying to replicate.
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