As resentment and condemnation grow over South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s disastrous effort to implement martial law, his political future is in jeopardy.
Analysts are skeptical that the ailing president will resign on his own initiative despite thousands of people marching through Seoul’s streets calling for it.
According to Yong-Chool Ha, a professor of political science, Yoon probably thought he followed the book when he declared martial law on Tuesday, December 3, for a brief period of time. However, an emergency vote in parliament forced him to change his mind in the early hours of Wednesday.
Yoon is a strange person. Everything should be done legally, in his opinion. “Even this time, he may have believed that he adhered to the rules to the letter,” said Ha, head of the Center for Korea Studies at the University of Washington.
Citing the lawyer-turned-president’s legal experience, he continued, “I’m sure Yoon would not mind being engaged in prolonged legal battles,” even though the court (proceedings) would take many months. Before attempting to win the presidency of South Korea, Yoon worked as a prosecutor for 27 years.
While agreeing that Yoon appears unlikely to resign, Sung-yoon Lee, a global fellow at the Washington-based think tank Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said that he anticipates the 63-year-old to fight the impeachment.
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