So, you beautiful bastards.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

Today is Tuesday, December 3rd, which means you're probably burnt out or you're getting

close to it.

And if you're not already checked out, probably getting there.

But the world has not stopped.

And in fact, there's a number of things that we should talk about today.

So I'm just going to make a consumable and then you can go about your day and hopefully not, you know, make yourself miserable by endlessly scrolling online all day. That sound good?

No? Okay, well, fuck me then. I'm still going to do it. Starting with the absolutely wild and shocking

news that the president of South Korea has declared martial law and we're just seeing chaos

erupt. Because suddenly in a late nightnight TV address, South Korea's President Yun declared martial law,

which is an absolutely massive deal for a number of reasons. I mean, it marked the first time in

nearly 50 years that martial law has been declared, with it in fact being the first time since

South Korea's military dictatorship ended and the country became a democracy. And this,

as Yun's declaration was incredibly restricted. I mean, it banned all political activities

and it allowed Yun to take command of the news media among other measures. Now as far as why youun has made this

shocking and unprecedented move, it comes amid an ongoing battle with a political opposition there.

Because notably the opposition controls the National Assembly and won by a landslide in the last

general election, effectively making him a lame duck president. And in his speech, invoking

martial law, Yun specifically claimed that the opposition was plotting insurgency and trying to overthrow the free democracy,

accusing them of being pro-North Korean anti-state communist forces and saying that martial law was

needed to, quote, eradicate those threats. But this is on the other side you had opposition

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