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Ruthless Politics of South Korea Is Rooted in Cold-War History

Lasting effects of pre-democracy divisions help explain Yoon Suk Yeol’s disastrous decision to declare martial law

By Timothy W. Martin / WSJ

When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shocked his country by declaring martial law earlier this month, he used language plucked straight from the Cold War.

The conservative leader described his political enemies as “antistate forces” and a “den of criminals” that rendered the country vulnerable to North Korean “communist forces.” He hurled phrases like cheo-dan, or punishment, that echo the rhetoric used by the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denounce his enemies. 

Such language helps explain the deep cleavages that still underlie South Korean politics and that fuel the ruthless battles between left and right here—culminating in the vote Saturday to impeach Yoon, the third South Korean president to lose power in such a move.

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