Koreans Rise Up Against Martial Law: U.S. Ally Set Back By Mass People’s Movement
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday, and South Koreans are demanding his impeachment. The US has maintained a close relationship with Yoon and plays a dominating role on the Korean peninsula.
Brian and Jamie Tyberg, an organizer with Nodutdol, break through the lies about Korea, discuss the current unfolding situation, and bring out the history of Korea’s fight for democracy, unification, and against colonization.
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| 0:00.0 | Right-wing President Yun of South Korea declared martial law yesterday. |
| 0:07.0 | South Koreans are demanding his impeachment. |
| 0:10.0 | The United States has maintained a close relationship with the South Korean president |
| 0:15.0 | and plays a dominating role on the Korean Peninsula. |
| 0:19.0 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:22.3 | We need a new society. |
| 0:25.8 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:27.6 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:29.9 | but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:58.0 | Thank you. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Jamie Tyberg. She is an organizer with No Da Toll. |
| 1:03.0 | Jamie, welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, Brian. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, thank you so much for joining. I mean, huge drama on the Korean Peninsula, |
| 1:12.7 | inside of South Korea in particular. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the KCTU, announced |
| 1:19.4 | a general strike when this right-wing president declared martial law. I mean, almost immediately |
| 1:26.4 | was overturned, but the drama, the saga hasn't ended. |
| 1:30.3 | Let's just bring everyone up to date. What's going on right now? Why did he declare martial law? |
| 1:35.3 | What was the political purpose of it? And why is it backfired? |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah. Just to give a overview of the events, he declared martial law at 10.30 p.m. in the evening, |
| 1:50.0 | Korea time on Tuesday. And he said this will go into effect at 11 p.m. and immediately protests broke out. |
| 1:58.2 | Under the South Korean Constitution, their legislature, the National Assembly, |
| 2:04.2 | can overturn martial law. Now, predicting this, Yun tried to stop this by sending soldiers |
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