President Yoon's sudden martial law and statement...What's the impact of impeachment?

2024.12.14. AM 05:07
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President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a second round of impeachment today, 11 days after the declaration of the emergency martial law.

From the surprise declaration of martial law to the last statement emphasizing the legitimacy of martial law, it is pointed out that the political judgments made by President Yoon themselves will eventually have the greatest impact on the impeachment vote.

Reporter Shin Yoon-jung reports.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of emergency martial law, which shocked many citizens in the middle of the night.

Even the senior presidential staff, the ruling party leadership, and the State Council members did not know in advance, nor did they stop it immediately.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (last 3 days): We declare an emergency martial law to eradicate pro-North Korean anti-state forces at once and protect the free constitutional order.]

cited the large opposition party's impeachment, abuse of special prosecutors, and budget cuts, but
The question of
is not solved,

The opposition camp speculated that it might be to prevent the re-vote of the third Kim Gun-hee independent counsel law.

The opposition party proposed the impeachment motion immediately after the martial law was lifted, and the ruling party first demanded the president leave.President

Yoon met with representative Han Dong-hoon for the first time since the martial law incident and repeated the explanation that martial law was due to the Democratic Party.President Yoon, who had been silent

, sat face to face again when representative Han demanded suspension of his duties by disclosing his order to arrest a politician,
In his third statement, seven hours before the impeachment vote after the meeting,
hinted at a "two-term retreat."

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (last 7 days): I will leave it up to our party to plan for future political stability, including my term in office.]

After the statement, the first impeachment proposal was discarded according to the "no-decision party theory," but the deterioration of public opinion was out of control.In response to the testimony that President

Yoon ordered the National Assembly to break down the door and bring down politicians, the investigation network has also been narrowed, including the identification of a rebellion mob and the appointment of a suspect for rebellion.

President Yoon, who has continued to exercise his authority amid controversy, rejected "Haya" and "orderly early resignation" and chose to go head-to-head.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (last 12th): Whether it's impeachment or investigation, I'm going to stand up to it.]

In fact, the Constitutional Court decided to fight the legal principles in preparation for impeachment, and at the same time, tried to rally the hard-line conservatives and engaged in a public opinion campaign.

The ruling party's impeachment cordon has effectively collapsed with the announcement of the last fourth statement, which did not budge on the claim that the declaration of emergency martial law was justified.

In the end, President Yoon, who made his own choice to determine his political fate, from declaring emergency martial law to preparing for impeachment, was forced to follow whatever the outcome of the National Assembly.

I'm YTN's Shin Yoon Jung.



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