‘North Korean Infiltration’: The Lie Behind Martial Law in South Korea

Dae-Han Song, with the International Strategy Center and a member of the No Cold War collective, explains South Korea’s escalating political crisis as President Yoon Suk Yeol faces growing calls for his resignation after declaring—and then rescinding—emergency martial law to target so-called “pro-North Korean forces.” Song says upon the martial law announcement, South Koreans immediately “dropped what they were doing and rushed to the National Assembly” and that Yoon’s subsequent reversal “was only possible because the people mobilized.”