Presidential official familiar with Yoon’s thinking tells me Yoon anticipated National Assembly would reverse his decision given the Democratic control but wanted to send a message nonetheless to lawmakers; announced martial law late at night to minimize damage to economy and people's daily lives. - ThreadSky

myhlee.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Presidential official familiar with Yoon’s thinking tells me Yoon anticipated National Assembly would reverse his decision given the Democratic control but wanted to send a message nonetheless to lawmakers; announced martial law late at night to minimize damage to economy and people's daily lives.

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cedenullius.bsky.social•95 days ago

The message that it appears was ‘sent’ is that the Assembly will not obey in advance, and has the people on its side.

mbonner.bsky.social•95 days ago

“Sending email late at night announcing that I am taking over the company to minimize the impact on my coworkers.”

annabusybee.bsky.social•95 days ago

"I only wanted to send a message and therefore I put in the military to prevent the lawmakers from doing their jobs".

matsubasho.bsky.social•95 days ago

It is so dumb....

prr333.bsky.social•95 days ago

That sounds like a weird calculation on Yoon's part.

starshadw.bsky.social•95 days ago

....and what message was he trying to send? "I am a complete doofus, hear me roar?"

soderbrod.nafofellas.com•94 days ago

Goodness me. If this was true he should just walk himself into the nearest police station.

juancarlosvd.bsky.social•95 days ago

It was forseable he'd be impeached. Was that calculated too?

iamstefan.bsky.social•95 days ago

IMO, That sounds like nonsense as soldiers took the building.

Did the police try to arrest some members of the National Assembly?

arthuragain.bsky.social•94 days ago

"I meant to do that."

Ya.

dustopi.bsky.social•95 days ago

Sounds like he tries to row the boat to shore

(Norwegian idiom for backtracking)

ocanannain.bsky.social•95 days ago

A defeated man trying desperately to save face.

quilted55.bsky.social•95 days ago

What audacity!

mlamb.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yoon was selfless in his coup and was only thinking about the South Korean people.

20quid.bsky.social•94 days ago

He's been doing this for so long, how can he still be this bad at politics?

frmrusmcpltsgt.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yoon is a fascist who was shown who his people are, since he doesn’t know they are a democratic country…
The people showed him.

citymice4.bsky.social•95 days ago

If this were not so pathetic it would be funny.

cbrooks66.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yikes 😳

jackq.bsky.social•95 days ago

And his girlfriend is merely at a different school, but totally real.

hyloguy.bsky.social•95 days ago

thesamgroup.bsky.social•95 days ago

President Yoon:
Hmmm
What to do to get attention.
I know! Let me light the fuse on this keg of gunpowder because I know I can put it out before... Whoops (trips and falls)

haredurer.bsky.social•95 days ago

So evil and stupid.

kcl110702.bsky.social•95 days ago

There's a lot of ways to send a message. Based upon the past history of S. Korea, it sounds like he didn't understand the blowback he's going to be receiving near-term.

marybreeze.bsky.social•95 days ago

Oh yeah?

chuckabear.bsky.social•95 days ago

🙄🙄🙄

shippybins.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yoon Statement....

"I was just testing the robustness of our system in case some despot got into power. I'm glad to inform the country our democracy held firm".

thirdreconst.bsky.social•94 days ago

Should this be reported as an observation of fact? It really doesn't pass the smell test.

novemberbeetle.bsky.social•95 days ago

This sounds like damage control.

ianford.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yeah, sounds like an excuse made up after the fact to minimise responsibility.
Colour me skeptical. Very skeptical. 🤔🤔

tequila0341.bsky.social•95 days ago

Was he drunk when he was thinking that?

creynoldsdc.bsky.social•95 days ago

That is some serious spin.

thepieman13.bsky.social•95 days ago

primarycrafty.bsky.social•95 days ago

that's one hell of a genius
he just made his country and himself look like a pathetic joke.

He just committed political suicide and will end up in jail.

wellestarr1.bsky.social•94 days ago

Oh, come on.

wendella.bsky.social•94 days ago

Sure Jan, I mean Yoon.

mjk4mj.bsky.social•95 days ago

Right-wingers are always terrible for a country's economy (see Russia, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and Trump's Great Depression-like disaster).
"... pushed stocks down and South Korea’s currency to multi-year lows ..." https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/04/south-korea-crisis-live-blog-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-impeachment-calls

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/gdp-growth-trump-worst-hoover-b1895500.html

mjk4mj.bsky.social•95 days ago

This lawmaker had to climb a fence to get into the National Assembly building (Yoon had the military block access into the building). Yoon is a right-wing liar and needs to resign. https://bsky.app/profile/adamjschwarz.bsky.social/post/3lcg46lagl22d

mjk4mj.bsky.social•95 days ago

A primetime address to the nation broadcast on all the major TV networks wouldn't have been a better way to send a message? Yoon's cabinet have all offered to resign, so during a supposed national emergency the country will be almost leaderless. https://youtu.be/82Fib2bmPkU?si=TnmJGQcmCzFyH9U9

mjk4mj.bsky.social•95 days ago

Late at night when people are sleeping, would be a prefect time to enact a coup. Thieves love to steal at night, in the dark, as do wannabe dictators. Yoon is doing CYA after his failed attempt to be a dictator.

mjk4mj.bsky.social•95 days ago

An email or text message would have been sufficient. People could have been killed when he involved the military. Declare martial law to send a message, is a terrible idea. And he now admits he lied when he said the country was under immediate threat and needed martial law.

mcsweeney.bsky.social•95 days ago

Wow! Translation it was just some random thing I did never mind go back to sleep.

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•95 days ago

What a mensch!

saschatrippe.bsky.social•95 days ago

Honestly, that sounds like more elaborate a plan than Yoon appears capable of making, judging by his track record.

acl01.bsky.social•95 days ago

Declaring martial law, chickening out and getting impeached to own the opposition.

s3rp86.bsky.social•95 days ago

A message of what ? He will try to self coup if the opposition parties and civil society don't obey his rule ?

ians.chat•95 days ago

Yeah but no that's not what was going down at all.

He tried to launch a coup in his own country, and failed.

kimbaeki.bsky.social•95 days ago

This alky chucklehead's a clear and present danger - not only to ROK but the wider northeast asian region. The DC bubble who thought he was 'our guy' need to wake the fuck up already.