The world's major foreign media, including Reuters, AFP, and Guardian, reported in detail about the situation in which supporters sprayed fire extinguishers at police and entered the courthouse to break furniture and furniture after news of the arrest warrant for President Yoon broke early yesterday morning.
Hundreds of supporters broke down the door and flocked to the court, chanting the name of the president who plunged the country into its worst political crisis in decades, the Guardian wrote.
Foreign media also mentioned the U.S. Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021.
The Financial Times, a British daily newspaper, said, "President Yoon's hard-line supporters are borrowing slogans from Trump's supporters to stop the theft," adding, "This refers to allegations of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election that resulted in a parliamentary riot."
Experts also analyze that the two situations are similar in many ways. Let's listen to it for ourselves.
[Kook Seung-min/Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University] I think Trump supporters and Yoon supporters are the most similar in a way to the connection of election fraud, and I think Trump supporters and Yoon supporters have a deep distrust of their state system and have revealed it in the form of riots. In a way, I think the U.S. is repeating what it has experienced over the past four years in Korea in a very short, very condensed form.]
In the midst of this, Trump, who is about to take office as president, is said to have recently mentioned Korea.
CBS recently reported that Trump said, "Everyone calls me 'chaos' but look at Korea," and joked, "If they stop impeaching him, they could meet President Yoon Suk Yeol."
This is the first time Trump has spoken about the recent situation in South Korea,
Attention is focusing on what other variables will be in the chaotic situation in Korea in the second phase of the Trump administration, which begins early tomorrow.
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