President Lee Jae Myung / Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung stated Monday that unresolved “acts of revolt” tied to final yr’s martial regulation bid should be totally addressed to stop its recurrence forward of the primary anniversary of the martial regulation try.
Lee made the comment on X, previously Twitter, as he posted a information article suggesting that South Korean troops had despatched leaflets towards North Korea first earlier than the North launched its personal.
“We had been getting ready to struggle, and it was the individuals of the nice Republic of Korea who prevented it,” Lee stated.
“(They) tried to start out a struggle underneath the pretext of martial regulation, going as far as ordering troops to ship the balloons towards the North,” he stated, warning that if such acts of revolt are left unaddressed they may “inevitably resurface sometime.”
Lee’s submit comes two days earlier than the primary anniversary of former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed martial regulation declaration.
