South Korea's president impeached. What's next? | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take

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  • Опубліковано 29 гру 2024

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  • @b0tterman
    @b0tterman 13 днів тому +3

    Holy shit. Did he just say that there was an election in which voters went for an avatar???? That's mind blowing. Why isn't this is covered in the news? Like a long story about this from the implications of AI point of view?

  • @burtonlee22
    @burtonlee22 12 днів тому +1

    A bit shocked you completely ignored the impact on the increasingly strategic relationship between the US Navy and Korean shipbuilding companies??

  • @nickhexum01
    @nickhexum01 13 днів тому +1

    After listening to the whole video, sounds like this is gonna work out great for China.

    • @winstonyu1776
      @winstonyu1776 12 днів тому

      Don't worry, CIA will figure something out. After all, South Korean is occupied by the USA army.

    • @davidlai399
      @davidlai399 12 днів тому

      Yeah, an anti China stooge who advocated using Korean tax dollars to compensate Korean slave labourers under Japanese occupation was never going to be popular.

  • @canadianmarauder1923
    @canadianmarauder1923 13 днів тому

    Thank you Ian for the update on the general shit show that is geopolitics these days.

  • @sams8502
    @sams8502 13 днів тому

    Calling Martial Law was very stupid, this is bad news for the US

  • @Outis___
    @Outis___ 12 днів тому +2

    What happens in Korea is not known exactly overseas, so we inform overseas with the help of a translator.
    Everyone has seen the Korean National Assembly approve the presidential impeachment bill without proper investigation or processing. Many people may wonder how such a thing is legally possible, which is Korean law.
    Similarly, according to Korean law, martial law is legal and the authority of the president. The fact that a cabinet meeting was held and the meeting was held regardless of the outcome of the meeting was enough to start martial law, and if the National Assembly decides to lift martial law, the martial law is lifted, which satisfies the legal form and requirements. First of all, you need to know that this was completely legal martial law.
    After sending a small number of troops to the National Assembly to draw attention, far more, including IT experts, are known to have joined the election commission and copied the data on the servers. It was to catch evidence of fraudulent elections. According to reports, the commission decided to spend $1.5 million (W2 billion) to replace the servers. There would have been no reason to replace them unless they had destroyed evidence of fraudulent elections.
    We will have to wait and see how the evidence of fraudulent elections brought out by the president is reflected and published in the investigation.
    The current issue is impeachment, and I'm talking about this.
    In conclusion, there is no impeachment.
    Within three or six months, the president is back.
    The reason relates to the composition of the judges of the Constitutional Court.
    There should be nine justices, currently six and three are vacant. This is because Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposition party, was delaying the appointment of justices in order to delay the Supreme Court's ruling on his own various illegal crimes. The president may have calculated that. He declared that he would plead the constitutional court process himself. And he demanded that the scene be broadcast live.
    It should not be forgotten that the president of Yoon Suk Yeol was a former prosecutor general. He is more knowledgeable about the law and better at creating an investigative process system than anyone else. If only one of the six current constitutional judges opposes impeachment, impeachment will not be established. It is due to the insufficient number of constitutional judges.
    And, now that there are more than two conservative constitutional judges, it is hard to establish an impeachment. Constitutional scholars say that impeachment is impossible under the Constitution. Maybe there will be a case where all six justices are against impeachment. Of course, two of them are on Lee's side, so at least two votes could be eliminated.
    This martial law may not have been done all the way the president planned and wanted, but I think some big structures and things that fit the purpose of martial law worked. It is to find out the structure of not being impeached and fraudulent elections and to see that China is behind it.
    This fight has just begun. The essence of this fight is the confrontation between liberal and authoritarian forces. This work of cutting China's influence in elections will take the liberal one step closer to victory.

    • @NoGoodHandlesComingToMind
      @NoGoodHandlesComingToMind 12 днів тому +1

      Thanks for adding. Do you mean a smug UA-cam summary wasn't spot on? Are you now going to say Zeihan making 400 ultra-certain claims per day about the future in all industries and countries shouldn't necessarily be trusted?

    • @blue-d4g
      @blue-d4g 10 днів тому

      Yea, the martial law was legal. Blockading the National Assembly WASN'T, and whatever the frick you idiots want to believe THEY DID TRY TO BLOCKADE IT. OK? And it doesn't matter whether it was an attempt to 'draw attention' which is idiotic in the first place. They still did it, that's what matters.
      And yeah, if you guys are indeed right and the elections WERE rigged, then maybe Yoon will be relieved. But reality? You guys are wrong. Plain wrong. There was no fraud in the elections and you guys aren't gonna admit it even if the soldiers walk out with proof. Stop embarassing our country, stay put to your domestic far-right media and shut the frick up. This country needs a generation change, seriously.

  • @velisvideos6208
    @velisvideos6208 12 днів тому

    At least the South Korean president had artificial intelligence.
    Better than nothing.
    How's Trump doing?

  • @Outis___
    @Outis___ 12 днів тому +1

    The truth of martial law is hardly known outside of Korea, so I tell you the real story with the help of a translator.
    It may sound strange, but this martial law was a legal act guaranteed by the Korean Constitution.
    According to the Korean Constitution, martial law should be initiated through a Cabinet meeting, and the end of martial law is subject to the decision of the National Assembly.
    At the Cabinet meeting, most members of the State Council opposed the start of martial law, but martial law began.
    The reason is that the legitimacy of the initiation of martial law is not the result of the cabinet meeting, but the fact that the cabinet meeting was held.
    Of course, the law is strange, but the fact that it was followed is important.
    In addition, within three hours of martial law, the decision to lift martial law was made by the resolution of the National Assembly, and the president accepted the decision.
    The President has met all the legal forms and requirements related to martial law. This martial law is not illegal, at least under Korean constitution.
    Isn't that strange, then? Why did the president forcefully start martial law, which would be lifted soon?
    This may be the weirdest part, but many Koreans have already noticed why.
    In the Sonja Byeongjeom, the classical military book of the East, the word 'Seongdong Gyeokseo' is said. It is a military code to make the east loud and attack the west.
    The president tried to use the Sungdong Command. The National Assembly had a minimum number of troops,
    It didn't stop most lawmakers from entering the main building of the National Assembly.
    There were some lawmakers who went over some walls, but they just had to enter the main gate.
    Many lawmakers presented identification cards to soldiers, entered the National Assembly and voted to suspend martial law.
    When all the opposition parties were concentrating on the National Assembly, the President sent more troops to the Election Commission than the National Assembly.
    They included a significant number of IT professionals,
    The soldiers seemed to be trying to extract some evidence from the central server of the Election Commission.
    And, though not exactly everything is known, the mission seems to have succeeded.
    Let's conclude. The president aimed to catch evidence of fraudulent elections prevalent in Korea.
    China is behind the election fraud. Opposition forces with China have brought electronic ticket machines and electronic ticket systems to Korea,
    It is suspected of being easy to manipulate: at least two parliamentary and one presidential election,
    In other words, it is believed that there was election fraud in the election of the previous president of Moon Jae In.
    The Election Commission is a constitutional independent body that rejects audits by the Board of Audit and Inspection,
    The search and seizure warrant submitted to the court was repeatedly rejected.
    The only practical way to investigate the Election Commission is martial law. It uses both democratic procedures and methods,
    The Election Commission investigation has been repeatedly blocked, and numerous accusations of election fraud have all been rejected,
    There have been cases in which those who have monitored and exposed fraudulent elections have been sentenced to prison when evidence has been fabricated.
    Rather, DNA extracted from the exposed was placed in a space that didn't even go and was manipulated and imprisoned as if it had penetrated the space.
    Only that part of the evidence of the fraudulent election was destroyed by fire in a specific investigation room of the prosecution.
    Powerful and huge forces are involved in rigged elections and have prevented rigged election investigations.
    It is speculated that these fraudulent elections may have involved Chinese intervention,
    Many countries in the Belt and Road trade with China have been involved in controversy over fraudulent elections since the late 2010s due to Korean electronic counting machines.
    In Kyrgyzstan, Romania, El Salvador, and other countries, there were fraudulent elections, and all of them were Korean electronic indicators,
    It was China intervening behind the scenes. This fight is not just a martial law incident that took place in Korea, a particular country,
    Two big battles around the world, the conflict between the United States and China, a microcosm of the war in which liberal forces fight against authoritarian forces.
    So, there may be further background to the question of why Yoon Suk Yeol's president did martial law at this point.
    The big opposition party, which has 190 seats out of 300 due to rigged elections, has cut the administration's budget in almost every way,
    They impeached 22 officials of the administration and made them disappear. They were actually plotting a state paralysis.
    In particular, the special activity expenses in the budget related to the presidential office were made to zero. This background may have encouraged the president's martial law.
    Also, it means "reflective behavior therapy." That is, if the opposition party uses the right of the law to run a legislative riot, it makes the president realize that the right of the law can do martial law. If you test what's possible by law to the limit, you let the opposition party realize what's happening to each other. If the opposition's indiscriminate impeachment is justified by law, then the president's martial law is justified by law.
    However, the essential reason is to end rigged elections.
    If we fail to prevent the election fraud, the opposition party will continue to maintain its power in a negative way,
    It means that China's influence in Korea will grow. Unlike what is known abroad, support for power in Korea is 50-50.
    There are over 80 polls saying martial law is wrong, but if you're asking who you're going to support, it's 50-50.
    The president's martial law does not immediately shift to the support of the opposition. The public is looking at the situation relatively coldly.
    And, little is known about the inside story of rigged elections yet.
    Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law would not have happened if Harris or Biden had been elected.
    Only after President Trump was elected would he have thought he could investigate the election fraud.
    I'm not saying Harris was rigged,
    Some of the forces who supported her tend to turn a blind eye to benefiting from the rigged elections, which are set in China,
    This is because Korea's martial law leads to election fraud investigations, and we are wary of it affecting the Democratic Party of the United States.
    Please keep an eye on this issue in Korea.
    This fight is larger than expected, and the question of overcoming rigged elections and winning the free world depends.

    • @dokkab578
      @dokkab578 10 днів тому +1

      this is NOT a popular opinion in Korea😂

  • @arxsyn
    @arxsyn 13 днів тому +4

    The Koreans have done well in acting quickly in ousting a dictator. Quite the opposite of the trajectory that is the United States! I'm sure they can rally together as needed.

    • @PapaOscarNovember
      @PapaOscarNovember 13 днів тому +3

      In fact, this incident shows that SK's democracy is pretty resilient.
      Hearings and testimonials show that ex-president, sec of def, etc. did fully intend on seizing power by detaining elected officials. The coup attempt failed only because soldiers on the field refused to carry out their illegal orders.
      Yes, SK has all democratic institutions and legal provisions to protect itself. But all of that is nothing if people do not do their civic duty to protect democracy. SK people certain showed that they could and would.

    • @jmhorange
      @jmhorange 13 днів тому +1

      @@PapaOscarNovember I mean if you are comparing South Korea to the US, yes South Korea's democracy is pretty resilient at the moment, we still have to see what happens over the next few years. The world is changing, a year ago, neither North or South Korea had military experience, North Korea is for the first time in 70 years gaining military experience in Russia. That's gonna have geopolitical consequences on the Korean peninsula and we'll have to see how that affects South Korean domestic politics.
      In any case, if you want to see resilient democracies, there are a host of democracies in the world that has never had a failed coup. The US and South Korea need to do better. I remember after January 6th, the media talked about how resilient US democracy was, now you see the same thing happening with South Korea. The problem is resilient democracies don't have failed coups. You shouldn't sugarcoat a failed coup. You need to reform the system that led to it.

    • @dwadd7528
      @dwadd7528 12 днів тому

      south korean president does not have power.
      korean economy is completely 100 % controlled by 3 big families.
      korean politics are run by entertainment industry and cult members.
      korean military is run by US army.

    • @tocreatee3585
      @tocreatee3585 12 днів тому

      so they voted a dictator in as president?