{"id":58072,"date":"2024-12-03T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=58072"},"modified":"2024-12-03T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:28:01","slug":"south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law-amid-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law-amid-political-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean President declares emergency martial law amid political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (AP): <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/north-korean-trash-balloon-lands-in-south-korean-presidential-compound\/\">South Korean President<\/a> Yoon Suk Yeol declared an \u201cemergency martial law,\u201d Tuesday accusing the country\u2019s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon made the announcement during a televised briefing, vowing to \u201ceradicate pro-North Korean forces and protect the constitutional democratic order.\u201d It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how the steps would affect the country\u2019s governance and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon \u2014 whose approval rating has dipped in recent months \u2014 has struggled to push his agenda against an opposition-controlled parliament since taking office in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon\u2019s conservative People Power Party had been locked in an impasse with the liberal opposition Democratic Party over next year\u2019s budget bill. He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party reportedly called an emergency meeting of its lawmakers following Yoon\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (AP): South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an \u201cemergency martial law,\u201d Tuesday accusing the country\u2019s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. Yoon made the announcement during a televised briefing, vowing to \u201ceradicate pro-North Korean forces and protect the constitutional democratic order.\u201d It wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[24491],"class_list":["post-58072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-south-korean-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58074,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072\/revisions\/58074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}