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Thanks, that’s important and I’d forgotten it.
From afar it looks concerning that soldiers and presidential guards are forcefully impeding due legal process in the shape of a court-issued arrest warrant being actioned by duly appointed police officers and prosecutors (there was a “scuffle” between police and soldiers during the attempted arrest). The president’s lawyer claims the warrant is unlawful but, in a state with rule of law, that wouldn’t typically justify the kinetic use of the state’s armed forces to prevent the state’s police forces from following a domestic court’s orders.
In LATAM or Africa this would seem like a series of huge escalations but every political culture is different and, as CNN put it, “South Korea has a colorful history of physical confrontations in its National Assembly” which would be extraordinary elsewhere.
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As I understood it, he declared martial law after he lost a budget vote. The opposition party controls the legislature and he didn’t have any other way to try to overrule them. But he still has enough support for a bunch of people to volunteer to be human shields against the arrest warrant.