From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that’s true, didn’t he have everything to go through with the coup?
From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that’s true, didn’t he have everything to go through with the coup?
My Uneducated Assumption as a non- South Korean: (Correct me if I’m wrong)
He probably would’ve end up jailed anyways because there would be infighting within the military about whether to listen to the president or recognize the legislature that had just revoked martial law.
The supreme court would also side with the legislature and declare that the martial law was unlawful. (The supreme court also unanimously convicted a former president of impeachment)
2 Branches vs 1 person would make the president’s order seem less legitimate.
There would also be mass protests and maybe even riots.
The president’s approval rating is low. There would be a lot of protesters. It would be chaos.
I assume he just wanted to give up and hope for a lighter sentence.