President Yoon Says Martial Law Decree was Within the Parameters of the Constitution
Here is impeached President Yoon’s opinion on his martial law decree:
Indicted over charges of leading an insurrection in December, President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his decision to declare martial law in a meeting with his legal representatives on Tuesday.
Seok Dong-hyeon, one of Yoon’s lawyers, told reporters that Yoon wondered aloud how his decision to impose martial law on Dec. 3 could be considered an act of insurrection when “everything was done within the boundaries of the Constitution.” (…….)
According to Seok, Yoon said he exercised his constitutional rights to declare martial law to inform the people of the crisis that the nation was facing, with the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) having taken over parliament.
Yoon also noted that he immediately lifted the martial law once the National Assembly voted down his declaration.
Yoon told his lawyers that his action could not constitute an act of insurrection because there had not been any bloodshed or casualties, nor had there been any arrest of politicians.
Seok said Yoon claimed that he had never intended to maintain martial law for an extended stretch of time because he had not prepared any manual on how to run the administrative and judicial branches in such a state, and because he had fully expected the National Assembly to promptly vote it down.
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Interesting how @GIKorea casually mentions Yoon’s indictment in passing but gives a big, bold headline declaring his actions “constitutional.”
No doubt @GIKorea thinks Yoon is innocent and his actions were justified, which proves that he’s just another right wing loony.
Additionally @GIKorea is avoiding the subject of Yoon being indicted by the Prosecution since it will go against his narrative.
I’ve been watching some of the recorded sessions of this trial. It’s been comedy hours, with Yoon twisting and turning, trying to explain away things that are unexplainable, claiming that he was just trying to scare and warn the country to shape up or ship out, so it’s really not a martial law. Even if most of the judges were picked by Yoon and they maybe sympathetic to Yoon, I doubt they will have the moral conscious to put him back in power.
Clearly it was; end of story.