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After the National Assembly's demand to lift martial law,

martial law troops have been withdrawn.

I will accept the National Assembly's demand and lift martial law through a cabinet meeting.

Chaos in Korea.

South Korean President Yun Sukyo is facing calls to resign or be impeached

after he shot the nation by imposing martial law. Faced with overwhelming opposition, the president

reversed the decision six hours later. We'll get the latest. Then is that a spy in your pocket? We'll speak to Pulitzer

Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow about Surveiled, his new documentary looking at how

surveillance spyware targeting cell phones is threatening democracy across the globe.

Surveillance of journalists, and this goes for surveillance of dissidents, it goes for surveillance

of political opposition members that we see in the film and in the world now so often,

is not just information gathering.

Surveillance of this type is intimidation, and it shrinks the

space for all kinds of expression in democracies. We'll speak to Ronan Farrow and the director

of surveilled Matthew O'Neill. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amymy Goodman.

Members of South Korea's opposition have moved to impeach President Yun Sukul after he plunged South Korea into chaos by declaring martial law in a surprise broadcast late Tuesday night.

Shortly after the announcement, live television footage showed heavily armed South Korean troops

attempting to enter the National Assembly building where parliamentary aids were seen trying

to hold the soldiers back with furniture

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