Supporters of the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (right on the poster), during a rally on a road near the Constitutional Court, in Seoul, on January 23, 2025. Anthony Wallace / AFP on December 3 2024, the declaration of martial law, by the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, amazed most of the Koreans as well as the international community. Thousands of demonstrators met near the Parliament, to try to prevent the military from taking control of them. The determined crowd allowed 190 parliamentarians to force the passage to the military to vote for the cancellation of the martial law, a few hours after its proclamation. Eight weeks later, it appears that the presidential “madness” was not one. Yoon Suk Yeol had not only tested this hypothesis several times for more than a year in a small committee, but he had also appointed relatives in key positions to ensure its execution. The parliamentary surveys and commissions initiated since bring out the details of this project. Mr. Yoon, indicted Sunday, January 26, for insurrection, was certainly deemed authoritarian. His convictions anchored him in the hardest right and nostalgia for the dictatorship. They appeared in his past remarks, his accession to the presidency and the journey to the martial law. One certainty: they contradict his proclamation, on January 21, before the Constitutional Court, of his belief “in liberal democracy”. The examples of his positioning on the far right abound. “If I had been a soldier, I would have made a coup,” he said during a dinner when he directed the national prosecutor’s office, between 2019 and 2021, according to the words of a former inspector of the judicial institution. Before adding: “The history of the prosecution is the history of the fight against the reds. During the same period, in October 2021, Mr. Yoon did not hesitate to salute the memory of the former dictator Chun Doo-Hwan (1980 to 1987), by calling it “good politician”. You have 83.51% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-01-28 17:13:48
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