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The Duran Podcast

South Korea political crisis deepens

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The Duran

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4.5738 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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South Korea political crisis deepens

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in South Korea.

0:03.9

Looks like we have another president on his way out.

0:08.6

The South Korean government is starting to resemble the government in the UK.

0:14.7

Can I say that?

0:15.8

Lists trust, Rishi Sudak, Boris Johnson.

0:18.5

I mean, we're running through a lot of leaders now in South Korea.

0:21.1

Of course, this follows up on the martial law that was, that tried to be enacted about three

0:29.4

weeks ago, I want to say.

0:30.4

Yeah.

0:31.4

Maybe three weeks ago, four weeks ago.

0:33.2

And it looks like South Korea has not been able to find any stability since that event.

0:38.5

So what are your thoughts on what's going on in South Korea?

0:41.2

What we're looking at in South Korea is a deepening political crisis.

0:45.7

And this is, if it continues for much longer, it's inevitably going to impact on the economy.

0:55.0

And it begs the question of why we are in this crisis.

1:01.3

So let's just go over events.

1:04.1

So the man who's still the president, President Yun, went and tried to announce completely out of the blue that

1:16.0

he was imposing martial of the country.

1:18.5

And he sent the military into the parliament, said that he was going to close down newspapers,

1:25.4

arrest political leaders, do all sorts of things like that.

1:31.3

The Parliament resisted this decree. The martial law operation, which is basically a coup,

1:39.9

collapsed. The president was left exposed. His defense minister was forced to resign, it looked

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