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South Korea president declares emergency martial law (www.rte.ie)
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"I declare martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free constitutional order," Mr Yoon said.

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[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

it has all the buzzwords expected from a US bootlicker. also kind of crazy to talk about freedom when youre literally declaring martial law because people are not in your side lmao

[-] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean that's always been the West's way of doing things, preemptively discredit claims about being a dictatorship and taking away freedom by claiming your doing it to protect freedom. It's basically the equivalent telling someone "I don't want to sound offensive, but...".

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