Demonstrators calling for the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol face South Korean police at the gates in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, early Dec. 4, 2024. (David Choi/Stars and Stripes)
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s President Yoon Sul Yeol announced Wednesday he would lift martial law hours after the national parliament rebuffed his decree and thousands turned out in the streets of the capital demanding his impeachment.
Yoon’s pre-dawn statement appeared to defuse a major political crisis in one of America’s key Pacific allies at a time of rising tension with communist North Korea.
U.S. Forces Korea ordered the 28,500 U.S. service members stationed in South Korea to report through their chains of command no later than 10 a.m. Wednesday and to remain in their homes until then, according to a Department of Defense alert text message.
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