Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea’s ex-president jailed for all times for masterminding an revolt

Jake Kwon
Seoul correspondent

I made a beeline for the National Assembly.

The solely solution to cancel martial regulation is for 150 legislators to assemble and vote in opposition to it. And they have been en route, similar to us, rushing by means of Seoul near midnight.

One lawmaker informed me over the cellphone that totally armed troopers have been already within the meeting constructing.

MPs and their aides already inside have been utilizing chairs, tables and no matter they might discover to barricade the constructing to maintain the troopers out, he stated.

Another was out of breath when he answered my name. Police blocked him from coming into the grounds, so he needed to get protesting residents to push him over the fence. He was now sprinting to the corridor.

I arrived to chaos – sirens, police, an offended crowd chanting, “Down with the autocrat, no, no martial law.”

There have been a whole lot of protesters of all ages. It was freezing however the crowd solely received greater. It was exhausting to imagine this crowd was unlawful, based on the martial regulation Yoon had declared.

A little bit after 1am, there was a loud cheer. “We won! We won!” The 190 legislators who had made it inside unanimously voted to strike down martial regulation.

It would take one other three hours for Yoon to get again down.

An previous man watching from afar informed me he remembered life below army rule. It was a horrible time, he stated, and he needed to come out as a result of that might not occur once more.

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