I saw an interesting take on the whole thing suggesting that the US might’ve been behind this. US military is effectively in control of occupied Korea, so there’s no chance that a military backed coup could happen without the US knowing.
So, the question becomes why the US might want to stage a coup in occupied Korea, and the answer may be that the US wants arms sent to Ukraine. The ruling party does not have the majority and they can’t authorize arms transfer because the opposition is blocking it. On top of that, the opposition is leaning towards normalizing relations with China, and it’s hostile to Japan getting in the way of Asian NATO.
It might be that the US lost patience with Korea and decides to speed things up a bit.
I mean of course the Americans were involved if this was a plot by the Korean intelligence/military apparatus, everyone knows the KCIA is just a paper thin sock puppet draped over the CIA’s hand.
This. The South Korean military is literally subordinate to the US’ (on paper, “only in times of war”). Maybe they could break free, but until then the idea the US wasn’t involved in the motions of declaring and enforcing martial law, etc. is pretty laughable.
“only in times of war”
Lmao how does that work when you put your military bases in someone else’s country? That makes the place perpetually in a time of war.
