Blinken's Confidence in the "rule of law" in Seoul...

...is based upon what exactly? Blinken evades and equivocates with blather when his support for the dictator wannabe now holed up in his bunker somewhere is questioned. The SK Foreign Minister Cho goes on about "unperceived faults" in South Korea, which he fails to specify, other than referring to a class of intellectuals in SK that need to "wake up" to the hidden threats to democracy heretofore unrecognized. This is far right/new right ideological claptrap. The threat to democracy isn't the cabinet which participated in Yoon's plan to send armed combat troops to shut down the National Assembly and planned an emergency action legislative committee to replace the National Assembly? No, according to the ROK foreign minister, it's naive intellectuals. This is a sub rosa reference to the "state enemies" line the Yoon government has followed all along. The current acting president had received a presidential memo directing him to implement emergency finances to support a new emergency action legislative committee, Yoon and the coup plotters planned to implement. (This evaluation was provided by Yoo Shin-min, in a video analysis of acting president Choi Sang-mok's behavior).

Blinken's meeting with the FM in South Korea:




"바이든 정부, 尹을 잘 몰랐나?" 외신 기자 돌직구 질문에.. (2025.01.06/MBC뉴스) "Biden government didn't understand Yoon well? Foriegn reporter straight to the point question..." Blinken's presentation is of course in English. I think it's important to listen to this dissimulation.

There were a series of other repressive martial law measures, I'm sure the current cabinet members (mostly the same as the Yoon cabinet) knew about, which after the unexpected failure to implement dictatorship, they all denied knowing about. Not likely.

Those who knew include the current acting president- minister of finance, Choi Sang-mok, who on Dec 3 had the note in his pocket from the president or someone on his staff asking the finance ministry to provide emergency funding measures for the new illegal military government/Yoon dictatorship. He denies knowing the content of the note before he delivered it to the Assistant Secretary of Finance for implementation, and denies ever discussing it with it his staff. Yet apparently there was some kind of Finance Ministry staff meeting after delivery of the note. What went on there isn't known at this point. A report I heard said the Deputy Finance Minister "only had a dim memory of the note" and what it pertained to, although he did admit it contained emergency finance measures. The acting president claimed he didn't even read it.

The acting president also failed to act on recent requests up till today from the CIO attempting to implement a plan for a second arrest attempt on Yoon, to order the Presidential Security Staff, and their supporting military troops, to stand down in the early morning hours today. Instead, persos or persons unknown, appear to have leaked that information to the mob of far right lunatics the day before and then ordered the security forces at the presidential residence increased to 500 personnel, additional bus walls, and barbed wire to be installed, in a multi-layered defense of Yoon's official residence. The CIO under the circumstances gave up on the second attempt plan to arrest Yoon before the warrant expired and transferred the responsibility for the next arrest execution attempt to the National Police. The CIO/PPO said they would seek another arrest warrant.