Breitbart The leftist Democratic Party of South Korea formally filed an impeachment motion against conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday, the second of its kind after a first one failed this weekend.
The Democrats, alongside several minorities parties, are seeking to impeach Yoon after a dramatic series of events on December 3 in which Yoon abruptly declared martial law and deployed soldiers to keep National Assembly lawmakers out of their chambers. Yoon claimed the move was necessary to stop “the threats of North Korean communist forces, to immediately eradicate the unscrupulous pro-Pyongyang anti-state forces that pillage the freedom and happiness of our people and to protect free constitutional order.”
Ultimately, Yoon only presented evidence that the Democrat-led National Assembly was blocking his policy proposals, as occurs in nearly every republic where lawmakers are of a different political party than the executive. The martial law state lasted for only six hours as assemblymen stormed into the legislative chambers, elbowing their way past throngs of heavily armed soldiers who did little to stop them. The South Korean constitution grants the National Assembly the power to override a martial law decree with a vote, but martial law prohibits any political activity, including voting.
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