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President Yoon lifts draconian martial law as thousands of protesters hit streets of South Korea

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South Korea’s president lifted the draconian martial law he imposed on the nation hours earlier Tuesday — after the parliament dramatically voted to reverse the order as thousands of protesters hit the streets.

Embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol said he convened his cabinet to formally lift the extraordinary measure around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday local time in Seoul.

The move was the latest in a stunningly swift, tumultuous chain of events overnight, triggered when Yoon suddenly appeared in a late-night television broadcast to announce he was instituting martial law to eradicate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces.”

The drastic measure came amid increasingly heated tensions between his scandal-rocked administration and the opposition-controlled parliament.

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