South Korea’s Preside⛄nt Yoon Suk Yeol defended his controversial martial law decree on🌸 Thursday, calling it an act of governance and rejecting rebellion charges.
President Yoon in a televised statement, slammed the opposition and said, "The opposition is now doing a knife dance of 🐷chaos, claiming that the declarat💮ion of martial law constitutes to an act of rebellion."
The statement came just hours before the liberal opposition Democratic Party was set to subm🎃it a new impeachment motion against him, with plans to bring it to a vote this Saturday.
This is followed by the failure of their earlier impeachment attempt last Saturday, when ru🐻ling party lawmakers boycotted🗹 the vote in the National Assembly.
Yoon’s December 3 martial law꧒ decree has sparked widespread political unrest and protests dem🃏anding his resignation.
How Has President Yoon Defended Martial Law Declaration
President Yoon during his address on Thursday said, “I will fight to the end, to prevent the forces and criminal groups that have been responsible for paralysing the country's government and disrupting the ꧙nation's constitutional order from threatening the future of the Republic of Korea."
Yoon reportedly explained that his💧 martial law introduction was meant to defend the county's liberal democracy and constituti🔯onal order in the face of the liberal opposition party, which he says has paralysed state affairs and threatened the constitution.
Yoon also said his martial law decree was an act of governance that cannot be the subject of investigat💙ions and doesn't amount to rebel𒉰lion.
“The opposition is now doing a knife dance of chaos, claiming that the declaration of martial law constitutes to 🐎an act of rebellion. But was it really," Yoon added.
On Wednesday, Yoon's office resisted a po🔯lice attempt t🧸o search the compound.
The main focus of the investigation is finding whether Yoon and other top military and go🔴vernment officials involved in imposing martial law committ🐽ed rebellion.
A conviction for re🎃bellion carries a maximum pen♎alty of death.
Earlier this week, Yoon's former defence minister Kim Yong-hu🐭yn was arrested on allegations of playing a key role in a rebellion and committing abuse🎶 of power.
He became the first person forma🍒lly arrested over the martial🧸 law decree.
Kim was one of Yoon's close associates ꦍand has been accused of recommending✅ martial law to Yoon and sending troops to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting on it.
Eventually several lawmakers managed to enter a parliament cha♑mber and unanimously rejected Yoon's decree, forcing the C൲abinet to lift it before daybreak on December 4.
