4. The ruling party has also called its representatives for an emergency caucus, its leader criticizing the declaration of martial law as inappropriate.
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5. President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea has declared martial law Tuesday in an emergency briefing. Yoon said it was made to prevent "anti-state forces," specifically citing the opposition party and its followers as pro-North Korean leftist groups.
6. Under the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, the president has the authority to declare martial law and prescribes its scope, rights, procedures, and duties of martial law commander through the Martial Law Act. The first martial law was declared on October 21, 1948.
You'd think after 12 times of this authority being misused, they would remove this from the constitution. But ig ppl are too stupid to change when they need to
7. It was following the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident. Since then, it has been misused as a means to seize and maintain power by dictatorial regimes. There were 12 emergency martial law declarations from 1948 to 1979, all under the dictatorship. Today, Yoon declared the country's 13th.
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