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Re:South Korean president declares emergency martial law by nickff on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:31PM (#42310980)
How is this a coup? It doesn't seem to fall under Wikipedia or any other definition I can find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#:~:text=A%2....

Do you consider Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act in Canada to have been a coup?

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Re:South Korean president declares emergency martial law by ExoticPearTree on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:23PM (#42311635)
From what I could understand from the news: - the current parliament and the president are at war: the president vetoed any law the parliament passed because he doesn't like them. The parliament voted the budget and cut funding to whatever the president wished for.

- all political parties voted to have the martial law order revoked.

I don't know what the fallout of this will be, but the curent president of South Korea is toast. He went all in and lost big time.

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Re:South Korean president declares emergency martial law by hyeonwho4 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:05PM (#42311416)
The military tried to physically prevent the National Assembly from meeting on a vote to disband the martial law. If they had been successful, the elected National Assembly would have no power. That's about as close to a military takeover as you can get without shots being fired.
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Re:South Korean president declares emergency martial law by vundercind on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:48PM (#42311925)
Declaration of martial law isn't necessarily a coup attempt, in the same way that walking into the parliament building—hell, maybe even walking in armed—isn't necessarily a coup attempt.

On the other hand, declaration of martial law or walking armed into parliament might well be a coup attempt.

Context and intent is everything.

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Re:South Korean president declares emergency martial law by sooheon on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:28AM (#42329661)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

Korean law specifically prohibits presidential interference with the legislative branch even under martial law, a clause written in blood. The first thing Yoon did was try to lock down the legislature and arrest party leaders. This is a blatantly unconstitutional self coup attempt.

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