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On Monday, Col. Kim Hyun-tae, who led special forces at the National Assembly, said he took full responsibility for ordering their deployment. South Korean lawmakers debating a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday. Security had been tightened at the National Assembly, where there was still evidence of the troop deployment days earlier. After that vote, the few members of Yoon’s party who had shown up walked out of the chamber. All but three members of Yoon’s party boycotted the vote, causing the motion to fail due to lack of quorum.

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Yoon had justified the martial law order in part by accusing opposition lawmakers without evidence of being North Korean sympathizers. North Korea has been accelerating weapons testing and ratcheting up its rhetoric against South Korea, the United States and others. But it is unlikely to take advantage of the political situation in South Korea to make any military moves, York said. “North Korea is probably aware that the [South Korean] armed forces would be on guard for any kind of provocation,” he said. Soldiers leaving the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, after a martial law order was lifted early Wednesday.

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SEOUL, South Korea — When South Koreans came out to defend democracy this week in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history was weighing heavily on their minds. South Korea, a key U.S. ally, is the world’s 10th-largest economy and a vibrant Asian democracy in a region where authoritarianism is on the rise. But the country of 50 million people spent decades under military-authoritarian rule, with martial law frequently declared and those who resisted it sometimes killed. But then they ended up at the National Assembly.”Their job was to prevent lawmakers from entering, since the legislature’s operations had been banned under the martial law proclamation. Historically, “whenever South Korean authoritarian leaders wanted to declare martial law, they typically sought at least some kind of tacit approval from Washington,” Jo said.

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