The leader of South Korea’s ruling conservative party, the People Power Party (PPP), reiterated on Friday that he supports the ouster of President Yoon Suk-yeol after his bizarre and alarming decision to impose martial law on the country on Tuesday night.
Yoon is a member of the PPP and the first to win the presidency for the relatively young party. He abruptly announced the imposition of martial law on Tuesday on the grounds that he needed “to protect the Republic of Korea from the threats of North Korean communist forces.” He also claimed that the nation’s legislature the National Assembly, had been infiltrated by “unscrupulous pro-Pyongyang anti-state forces that pillage the freedom and happiness of our people.”
Yoon never offered any concrete evidence of North Korean infiltration of the government, nor did he support his claims that anyone in the current South…
