South Korea's impeached prime minister says Cabinet had concerns over martial law

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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — 

South Korea's impeached premier curate told parliament connected Thursday that "everyone" successful a hastily arranged gathering of ministers expressed concerns astir President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial instrumentality program earlier helium announced it connected Dec. 3.

Han Duck-soo, who was concisely acting president aft Yoon was impeached and suspended from powerfulness connected Dec. 14, earlier being impeached himself, connected Thursday joined acting President Choi Sang-mok, the concern minister, successful facing parliamentary questioning implicit their relation successful the daze martial instrumentality decision.

"Everyone objected and expressed interest and raised the problems with this determination to the president," Han told a peculiar committee, referring to the gathering wherever Yoon told immoderate furniture members of his volition to state martial law.

The martial instrumentality lasted astir six hours earlier Yoon rescinded the bid successful the look of absorption from parliament, but it sent shockwaves done Asia's fourth-largest system and sparked a spiraling governmental crisis.

Choi told the committee that the biggest challenges successful the state close present see the livelihood of the radical and changes successful the planetary order.

"There's the request to stabilize authorities administration," helium said.

Yoon appeared connected Thursday astatine a proceeding successful his impeachment proceedings astatine the Constitutional Court, which volition determine whether to reinstate him oregon region him permanently from office.

Senior subject officials testified successful the tribunal astir their relation successful deploying to parliament that night.

"My ngo was to blockade the parliament gathering and the members' hall, and unafraid those buildings," said Army Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who personally led astir 97 peculiar forces troops connected the ground.

Kim said aft they entered the building, his commander, Kwak Jong-geun, ordered him to get successful the main enclosure of the gathering wherever lawmakers had gathered to assistance the martial law.

"(My commander) asked if we could get successful due to the fact that helium said determination shouldn't beryllium much than 150 people," Kim testified, though helium said helium did not cognize the value of that fig astatine the time, oregon whether his commandant meant lawmakers.

Kwak, the commandant of the Army Special Warfare Command, has said helium was told to halt 150 lawmakers oregon much from gathering, the quorum needed to ballot down the martial instrumentality decree.

Kim said helium told Kwak his troops were not capable to participate the chamber. Eventually 190 lawmakers defied the cordon to ballot against Yoon's decision.

Kwak took the basal astatine the tribunal aboriginal connected Thursday and faced Yoon successful the aforesaid courtroom. Kwak has been saying that Yoon straight ordered him to "drag out" lawmakers but Yoon did not inquire him to support civilians oregon retreat his troops, contradicting Yoon's claims.

Yoon has flatly denied immoderate wrongdoing and allegations astir attempted arrests of politicians. He has defended the martial instrumentality announcement 2 months agone arsenic his close arsenic the caput of the state.

Yoon is successful jailhouse and separately faces a transgression proceedings connected insurrection charges.

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