S8 Ep506: Morris Tan details the jailing of South Korea's ex-president, alleging election fraud by the current administration and a shift toward alignment with North Korea's regime. 11.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good friend and colleague Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. |
| 0:20.4 | And we're off to Korea because Morris Tan is here. |
| 0:24.2 | Former U.S. ambassador at large for global criminal justice is a leader of the... |
| 0:28.8 | He was a leader of the international election monitoring team at the most recent South Korean election. |
| 0:34.6 | The news, however, is not about elections. |
| 0:40.8 | It's about the court sentencing a previous president of South Korea, it's a life imprisonment. The BBC headline, South Korea's ex-president |
| 0:48.1 | jailed for life over martial law attempt. South Korea's ex-president writes the Bib Yun-S Suk-Yol has been jailed for life for mastermining and insurrection by trying to impose |
| 1:00.5 | military rule. According to the BBC now, Yun attempted to subvert the Constitution by |
| 1:06.8 | deploying military troops to seal off the National Assembly and ordering the rest of politicians |
| 1:12.1 | 3 December 24, according to a sole court. |
| 1:17.9 | Morris, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:19.5 | My memory of this incident is nowhere near as romantic and dramatic. |
| 1:24.1 | That looks like a Netflix plot. |
| 1:26.8 | My memory is that this was to do with the maneuvering in |
| 1:31.6 | the National Assembly between the opposition party and President Yun, who was frustrated about |
| 1:37.2 | his reforms being blocked at every instance by a party led by the man who's now president, E.J. Mung. So it looks like a battle |
| 1:46.1 | between two parties in the U.S. Congress. What are the memories of this incident? And is the |
| 1:54.5 | understanding that it was sinister or what you'd have to say, lawfare? Good evening to you. |
| 2:02.8 | Good evening to you as well. |
| 2:09.5 | It was just the opposite of what the claim is. When you're looking at for insurrection, look no further than Idemion, the fraudulent president of South Korea. He and his party and the National Election Commission engineered a |
| 2:19.9 | coup d'etat a revolution that President Trump correctly identified. That's actually what happened |
| 2:26.9 | here. And President Yun under Article 77 of the South Korean Constitution has the authority |
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