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18:09:13 - so professor means to be honest have been stocking you on a social media and that you have been writing a rather extensively about you know what's unfolding in south korea on x and and i just want to pick up an interesting a point you made and you said that martial law can be a loophole in liberal democracies potentially creating a dictatorship overnight to now to tell us how how relevant is this concept to south korea's the current political landscape yeah well it's not every democracy that has but south korea does have a martial law law and in some ways that law will probably help them get out of this fiasco in that there are procedural requirements you know for what that is supposed to do when he declares martial law east coast and hold the deliberation of his cabinet of the state council and so you're seeing reporting on how there was a five-minute meeting no notes were taken it certainly doesn't appear to constitute a deliberation so that would be evidence against him that he violated the law for martial law similarly there's a requirement for war or a war-like level of national emergency which again it's unlikely that that his claims will be accepted as as reaching that minimum but still this is all law that does provide the president with a kind of constitutional power to suspend constitutional certainly civilian rule and impose martial law he exploited that loophole and i would expect that going forward not in this first stage but in the real clean up in the aftermath that korean democracy will have to do they'll be taking a very hard look at about loophole and how the ability to martial law should not exist in the constitution have to be constrained in the future

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Source: CNA

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