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Puddinghelmet
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Puddinghelmet@lemmy.worldJoined: 2025-03-11 |
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/18/south-korea-president-insurrection-death-penalty/
Same article but no paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ousted-south-korean-president-faces-death-penalty-in-insurrection-case/ar-AA1WB1sO South Korea, the country of K-pop, Kia and Samsung, a stable democracy for decades. More than a year ago, on 3 december 2024 the conservative president Yoon announced a state of siege live on television and plunged South Korea into chaos for 6 hours. Yoon seemed to be radicalized by the idea that North-Korea was on the break of attacking South-Korea and he wanted to save South Korea himself from this. Yoon's seizure of power eventually ended in prison. And for the first time, a democratically elected president is now facing the death penalty. Yoon never showed remorse. The documentary 'The Seoul Guardians' about the coup just premiered by a South-Korean filmmaker at the International Rotterdam Film Festival: Short clip of a woman trying to grab a soldiers gun during the coup: |
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phutatorius
lemmy.zip
phutatorius@lemmy.zip Joined: 2025-06-04 |
And that's how it should be done. |
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