SOUTH Korea’s president has declared martial law in the country to flush out pro-North Korean elements.
In a late-night emergency TV address, President Yoon Suk Yeol said the step was “critical for defending the country’s constitutional order”.
The president accused the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the steps would affect the country’s governance and democracy.
South Korea and North Korea have been archenemies for decades.
The two Koreas are still technically at war after a three-year conflict ended in a 1953 armistice.
In recent months, tensions have also grown over balloons of trash floated from North Korea, which Pyongyang says are a response to balloons carrying anti-regime leaflets sent by activists in the South.
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