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PREVIEW: SOUTH KOREA: Korea expert David Maxwell finds encouraging signs amid South Korea's constitutional crisis. More tonight.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: SOUTH KOREA: Korea expert David Maxwell finds encouraging signs amid South Korea's constitutional crisis. More tonight..

1962 South Korea

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listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague David Maxwell of the Asia

0:35.1

Pacific Strategy Center about the complex

0:38.5

constitutional challenges in South Korea after the impeachment of President

0:43.8

Yun, he vows to fight on, and the choice of a new president when it comes.

0:52.0

David here finds a very, very careful silk lining in all of this. The North Koreans have

0:58.9

gone into high propaganda style, preaching against the South. David explains that it took

1:05.9

him a little while, but they got going. How this can be turned to a positive for the people in the

1:10.3

North. David Maxwell,

1:12.6

much more of this tonight. Thank you. Well, it took Kim Jong-Loon a little bit of time as

1:18.2

propaganda agitation department to react to this, and they're going to use it to try to create

1:25.8

friction in the alliance.

1:34.6

I think they probably think that their pressure will be taken off them, off North Korea, for its support to Russia.

1:40.1

China, I think, thinks it benefits by creating a dilemma in the alliance.

1:46.4

But what we also need to do is take a step back and remember this, that democracy is working in South Korea. Whether we like the oppositions or any of the political parties, what happened,

1:52.5

and especially on December 3rd, the military first obeyed the orders as they should, but when they

1:59.2

were given the illegal orders to stop the National Assembly proceedings

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