Less than three hours later, parliament voted to lift the declaration ... Following Yoon’s martiallaw declaration, SouthKorea’s military proclaimed that parliament and other political ...
SouthKorea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won ... “I knew we had the constitutional authority to liftmartiallaw,” Woo recalled later in a news conference. “I didn’t hesitate.
But the concerns proved warranted. Yoon imposed martiallaw in the middle of the night on Dec. 3, plunging SouthKorea into its worst political crisis in decades — with the defense minister ...