Group Claims that ROK Military was Planning to Attack Candlelight Protesters

This sounds like another ploy to smear people connected to the Park administration disliked by the South Korean left:

Top military officials seriously considered suppressing a nationwide candlelight vigil by force after former President Park Geun-hye was impeached by the National Assembly in late 2016, the Center for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK) claimed Thursday.

Citing sources in the military, the CMHRK said senior officials, including Major General Koo Hong-mo, discussed in detail scenarios of quelling millions of street protesters across the nation.

“It is very shocking that they considered using military forces to quell the peaceful protest,” the center said. “The military mapped out a plan to trample on citizens with guns and swords in order to suck up to those in power like they did 40 years ago in Gwangju. It is tantamount to a rebellion conspiracy.”

If the Constitutional Court had dismissed the Assembly’s impeachment motion, the officials would have put that plan into action, according to the center. But in March 2017, the court ruled unanimously to remove the former president from office.  [Korea Times]

You can read more at the link, but does anyone really think the ROK Army was going to attack candlelight protesters with swords?  Only a leftist living in a fantasy land would think that.  If anything there was probably plans being made to assist the riot police with crowd control not a Gwangju style military action that this is being made out to be.