duration at that time saying that the united states and it support a south crew was iron clad that there was a deep concern about the fact that there was this, again, russian, or rather north, pre an aggression. and the reason i mentioned russia in that is the fact that the united states has also been watching very carefully. the concern about the addition of north korean soldiers aid in russia in it's what the united states says is of course, russia's invasion of u frame to the tune of some 12000 north korean soldiers. the united states also saying that north korea has added some, 13000 containers of ammunition, munitions, artillery and the other sort of weaponry to that fight as well. so it back to the relationship to the united states is, is very much aligned with the soft, free, and leader with the military itself. but in terms of the relationship between present and 5 and,

and the south korean leader is certainly one of mutual respect uh, going back some time. okay, kimberly, thank you very much for bringing us a nice day from washington d. c to these fast moving developments out of south korea. it is 16 g m t 1 am in. so you're watching out as 0 as we continue to cover breaking news out of sol. solved korea web president. you in stock, your has declared martial law. he made the announcement in a late night television address accusing the opposition of sympathizing with north korea. the military has been drunken access to the national assembly. politicians on the president's own people, pow party have criticized the move and the opposition democratic party leader. a lead dry mule and has called it costs additional. the declaration also puts the countries media and publishers under his control. it's a 1st time since 1979, that martial law has been declared in south korea. janelle, i don't mean your open a hit bindix at an emergency marshall in order to defend the free republic of korea

from the subject of north korean communist forces and to eradicate the shameless criminal. and the state forces that pricing on people of that freedom and happiness . this measure is necessary to safe called a constitutional or a freedom. sometimes it's on the presiding due to this, marsha little, i will rebuild and protect the free republic of korea, which is falling into the depths of national ruin. i will decisively eliminate onto state forces who being wreaking havoc under the main culprits of nations downfall. this is an unavoidable state to protect our freedoms and safety of the people, as well as to ensure the nation sustainability and security against dionte state forces attempting to over throw off system has skipped the latest. now with the alger 0 is eunice came, who's in soul for us, has just gone past one a. m a. and so eunice, bring us up to speed with what's been happening for us at the national assembly.

all right, so we do have some developing news volley. we are hearing that at the national assembly. those pictures you saw earlier of the speaker of the national assembly at the podium. that was a lawmakers gathering to vote to request to put a halt on this a declaration of the martial law. we are just now hearing that that motion has been passed by the law maker as the ball is now in the court. then of the president in terms of whether he would honor that and that is a big question mark, because he also did not go through the usual steps before prior to declaring martial law of working with the national assembly to get that approved. so that will be something that a lot of people are watching, but now currently where we are now in this state of emergency that started at about,

you know, 10 20 pm tonight. when the president took to the airwaves to surprise even many of his own aids in and, and making a case that, that the state of affairs, domestic affairs is terrible because the national assembly has forwarded. many of his legislative moves, including efforts to impeach many of his ministers. so now again, once again, saying that the national assembly has acted and has approved them as motion to lift the martial law a declaration don't. and the question now being whether the president will accept to this this vote by the members of parliament, eunice, the emergency that's been declared. what does it mean effectively? what's gonna happen? you know, it's nighttime, of course now,

but what's gonna happen? come tomorrow morning with the markets open. will people be able to go out right, so we are not seeing any um, you know, uh uh, restrictions on regular people and certainly the president in his address did say that the government would try to minimize any impact on regular a civilian life. so we should know that, you know, people are still able to move about. we were able to quickly drive to the bureau here and sold to report on this news. but in terms of how restrictive, you know, people who try to gather to protest that will be something to watch because the marshal law rules do prohibit a political gatherings including gatherings at the national assembly. so what the national assembly just did would not align with the rules of the martial law here

in, in south korea. but we did here in terms of, of the financial world that the stock market may close tomorrow they are when they're their decision tonight. and we're also hearing there are many a senior aids and, and the foreign ministry as well, holding late night emergency sessions in reaction to this development. yeah, i and we do appreciate that it's made nice so so difficult to gauge people's reactions now units, but how will soft koreans feel about this when people wake up tomorrow morning to hear this use, how will they react a right. i think people are already quite shocked in, in hearing this development. i myself have been getting a flurry of text messages. what is going on? because this is so i expected this move. we have not had martial law declared in

south korea for decades. and so i think this is a new territory that we have entered how long this will last, whether you know, the president well on or this, this call from the national assembly to stop. that will play a big part in, in the next steps for south korea. but certainly right now it's hard to tell. and as i had noted earlier, a south koreans are not shy about gathering and protesting what they feel is in on shots coming. just a couple presidents ago, president pumpkin had made big news when she was successfully removed from office. right. as a result of months and months of people coming out to the city center to, to call for that and teach vent. mm hm. so um, that's something that certainly i think the president's office would consider in there and next steps and, and try not to inc or more south koreans it and,

and try to prevent his already low popularity. right. i was from entering into perhaps, potentially that impeachment route. right. and as you say, south korea, i mean, protest a, not something that you know, talk or into a not used to seeing and, and getting involved in this, this president himself has been involved in quite a number of controversies, one that included his own wife, right? the best right there has been ever since the beginning of his term really at when he became president about 2 and a half years ago, south korea has a single 5 year term. so he is about halfway in to his term, but he came into office with the slimmest margin of less than one percent. so already he was entering into the seat with very low popularity,

which he's not really been able to significantly recover from. and many of his non supporters, i would have to say have multiple times try to make the issue of the legal challenges of, of his was the 1st way from going he and, and this, you know, i think, well now in the international world is perhaps one that involves a designer bad that she accepted from a pastor who has secretly filmed that exchange. but there are also other you know, charges against her, including those involving real estate and investments. so this is something that the president has really tried to negotiate, uh to, to, you know, be quieted down, but even his own leader of the ruling party, the people power party handle who and who had been really his right hand man. when

both of them were career, prosecutors, he has not played a long so to speak, with the president's request to tone down on, on these allegations against the 1st lady. and, you know, supporters of the president would say that the opposition has been using this politically to try to drive down the popularity of his leadership. and certainly his image, a broad is a very popular one. as kimberly noted earlier, there has been break for it was on the diplomatic front thanks to cooperation with joe biden as well as the former japanese prime minister. but i think internally in domestically he has struggled to really find allies that will call less around him and with the leader of the ruling people. power party now

seemingly not willing to play on his team. he may have felt like he was cornered politically and he does not want to, you know, spend the 2nd half of his presidential term being a lame duck president, especially at a time when there is so many eyes on this side of the world. thanks to north korea and his growing alliance with russia. thank you, eunice. for the moment eunice became my correspondence, live save from sol as we heard from eunice in the last few minutes, the soft, free, and parliament, the members of fundamentals managed to make it into national assembly, have voted to block the martial law declaration that was made by the president, a few hours ago, let's speak to young chic phone, about these latest developments in south korea. he's a visiting professor at the own state university, and he is an advisor for the ministry of national unification of south korea's government and his life from so thank you very much for being with us. so in the last few minutes to parliament has voted to block the martial law decoration by the

president. what do you think is going to happen next? now? what will the president next will be after this set vote fight upon it? well, uh the president may have resist. yeah, the resolution has that the probably a month with a unanimous precision $198.00 members of the file, the amount of 10 data events and meetings and all of that a voted in favor of making it the mass. i took it up in the doctor's to lift it up by some law. it is up to the 1st downstairs on use on, you know, to, you know, lift a mazda low or still reduce the demand from the upon the i'm not stuck. so this policy does not staying with the press done because the situation according to the code, 77 of the south can constitution. so imagine low declaration should be something very serious, serious, say as a serious as us to go to war or actual war. but we don't have this situation. so

this is not a game that prison can read. and it looks like he didn't consult, anyone be, well may might have, but he, some members of his party were caught by surprise. what led him to make this decision? the thinking and you know, why, you know, why now? why now you and juniors highlighted the, those scan those. are you moving the 1st lady we chose to be in his actual list to as soon as he's an off your race, and i think he's a seriously foreigners political to speaking. so this is a very, a desperate kind of a hail mary, for the president to tell her on the table about is going to backfire and now, and she's in peace. money is really in the card. and now citizens gather in front of the national us and the billing and the industry is also are shouting, not just the listing, the marshal lol declaration, but now they're shutting difference logo president should be impeached. so now

people are calling for his impeachment is we've heard a force about the implications of this. what do you see the impact being on the tensions between the north and the south? because the president, when declaring this, this martial law accused the opposition of being simplifies, is of, of appealing young of north korea. saying that he was trying to protect south korea from, from communism and so on. what, what impact is this crisis? because it's, it looks like it's, it's a crisis now that's on folding. in south korea. is this crisis likely to have on, on, you know, the tensions on the korean peninsula? you know, not likely because notes are not squared. his hands are full. i mean, those cut needs to take care of who gets on business or doing business with data in beaumont, in the war between russia and ukraine. and those kind of vision would happy to see

it doesn't use on the go because using us hard line us doing those clear has been really hurting north korean regime. so he isn't present use on your will be eliminated from the point in the power. then there is no reason on those grades and so for not being happy with the result. so you don't see the no friends exploiting this price is because they seems to be concerned from washington that they might so what kind of explication can those can raise? you may try. uh, because uh, this is a very unstable situation yourself. yeah. but no squared availability to manually uh this situation is quite limited. okay. um in terms of, uh, the, you know, the people i, you've mentioned that they're not calls for the presidents impeachment. kenny survive 1st. you think it is highly unlikely because he brought the dues

onto it himself because since september of this year there has been rumors, industry, it is software that you know, tease gate from a very difficult political situation with a lot of a scan. those menu, they mean both his wife for the use of my task came to the clear, marshall and menu close about if uh you know, and use media and tiny members who support present use or, you know, deny these a room or as a groundless. but now she declared to myself, so she has no support or any more. and it is very indicative that to me through the education just uh, made an announcement that, uh tomorrow warning themselves. so yeah. all the regular academics, helen there's will be, uh, you know, man carried out without any change, even under the module or declared. yeah. but what would have marshall no meant in

fact, i mean what, what sort of measures would we have see? will we see? so because it's not to say that the president will still not go ahead with this despite this vote in parliament, what would it have meant? i mean, the country has been here in the past, but the last time as we've been saying, was in the 1980s. what would martial law look like today if it was implemented? well, according to the zillow, then the uh, the head of the emotional community. uh now, yeah. the 1st uh, i mean, dinner i use are pointed to lead. what am when i pull our as the, the not only the other ministration but also to the sherry rights in the designated area under the influence of the mass of law. and the, you know, rise to assume a peaceful assembly and freedom express. ready be greatly a code to tell by the author, radio, the by a little committee. you said

a moment ago, a young sheep bong vet. the president has no supporters now after this declaration and he made an after the vote we've seen in parliament. but what about within the military? he did make some key appointments recently in the military. what sort of support does he have? well, i mean that's a very good question. um, 1st of all, his right hand man and on the chairman of the ruling party. oh, quickly made an announcement in that piece modular. the declaration was unlawful and he would be leading his party members to side with the, you know, citizens to request a device or a low declination to be rescinded immediately by the oppressed. and so the ruling party members already detected from the office and your major military, possibly backing the press down. but the military is not really

a unified organization. maybe some members in the military may be supporting the decision made by prison use on, you know, the rest of the me to tell you know, very well that when marshall was big, clear and there was a massacre helping us and citizens in 198045 years by myself, it was fix that all the collaborators later eventually paid a price as a level readers on the law. so they were severely prosecuted and so on. divorce has members know very well why the consequences of their action. so although they may be superficially following the holders from the top, but at the heart of the all right, so they know the consequences of them being in the wrong place. junction box, thank you so much for your insights and for explaining the situation so clearly to us junction vonk got a visiting professor at young state university joining us the from. so let's check

in with our white house correspondent, kimberly how get to, to find out if there's more reaction from washington. kimberly, to these developments in, in the soft create software being of course, one of the, one of the closest allies of the us in that region. yeah, is, it's been surprisingly quiet from the binding administration. of course, we should point out that the us president joe biden is not actually here at the white house. right now. he is traveling. i had left for angola it just a day or so ago, so that, but you know, of course, his national security team still is working actively. and the statement from the, by the ministration is that they are in contact with the republic of korea. monitoring the situation closely. now, having said that, of president biden did meet with the leaders of japan and south korea just a couple of weeks ago on the sidelines of a pack. and it was following that meeting that the 3 leaders released the statement reaffirming their strong relationship, a relationship that they even

a year prior here in washington underscore the priority for the 3 that they would continue to work together in that try lateral relationship to about security democracy and prosperity in the, in the pacific region, but the fear and the reason for the strong relationship is because of the ongoing fear of north korean aggression. and that's why this alliance was sort of bolstered to try and counter that threat. the big concern also is that the relationship between north korea and russia had become ever stronger, particularly as north korea had been a, according to the united states, intel agencies assisting russia. not only with munitions, to the tune of some, 13000 different shipments since august of 23, but also to the tune of some 12000 or more soldiers assisting russia in its

invasion and fight in ukraine. and so this is something that has been of ongoing concern and discussion between the 3 leaders of russia, or sorry, rather, the united states, japan and south korea. and also has been of concern particularly since the november presidential election. kimberly, what's the relationship like um with the the president present biden's relationship with that the president of south korea has declared this martial law. and what do we expect relations to be like when the new administration of trumps administration comes to power or in china or well the relationship is one that is very warm. in fact, i can remember a sting dinner that was held here when the south korean leader was here in

washington. in fact, it was, it was, he felt so comfortable. he was even doing a little bit of a version of kerry ok singing the song american pie, which made him point in dear. he was quite a dear into the, the reporters as well as to the president and it was sort of a viral moment. here i social media so that there's quite a warm set of friendship between the 2 leaders. but that also extends into the security relationship as well. they signed a declaration that meant that there would not only be this deterrence against north korea, but that the united states would have a soft pre is back with you. well, with regard to deploying its military, even a nuclear sub, if necessary, to help promote that security. going even further, we should point out that there are, there is a presence of us soldiers in south korea, some 29000 our stations in south korea to do exactly that. to be there

to be president. should there be that kind of a ration that requires the us to respond? and we should also point out, uh, you just send the hours leading up to the us selection. we saw the us was monitoring very closely actions by north pre liter kim john in when he launched a test of a short range ballistic missile into the c a. and we also know that there was a demonstration of a test of an icbm by north korea to show its ability that could reach the us mainland, which united states, south korea, and japan felt compelled to respond to by a flying a b one bomb or to show that they have that child arrow readiness. so there's been this very recent activity in just the last couple of weeks to your point about the relationship. this is the kind of relationship that these leaders have one of

having each other's back service. it's not just in a personal level, but it's also in the form of a formalized security relationship. ok, kimberly thank you very much for the moment that sy correspondent kimberly hawk it lived there in washington. let's recap this breaking news story out of south korea way in just the last few minutes. the parliament has voted to blossom martial law and declaration announced earlier by the president eunice akio made the announcement in the late night television address, in which he accused the opposition of synthesizing with north korea. the speaker of parliament and the empties, who managed to make it into the national assembly after it was blocked off by the police, have now declared the marshal, not invalid, and the live pictures were looking at right now. our protests is gathered outside the parliament after this declaration of martial. now the

. 6 the noun mean euro, but he by declare an emergency marshall in order to defend the free republic of korea from the subject of north korean communist forces and to eradicate the shameless criminal. and the state forces that pricing on people of their freedom and happiness. this measure is necessary to safe called a constitutional order of freedom were some and so on. designing drawing me to this marshall, i will rebuild and protect the free republic of korea, which is floating into the depths of national ruin. i will decisively eliminate onto state forces who being wreaking havoc under the main culprits of nations downfall when this is an unavoidable state,

to protect our freedoms and safety of the people, as well as to ensure the nation sustainability and security against dionte state forces attempting to over throw off system while we have a corresponding units came. joining us now live from so units, uh, its late into the night the but people gathered outside the national assembly to protest as we just saw on those pictures earlier. a. yeah, that's right. it is 1 26 am here in sole, and this is a very fast moving story that really had a lot of shocked people late tuesday here in south korea. we are hearing that the national assembly at the national assembly lawmakers were able to convince, successfully have corum and vote to nullify this declaration by president even some yard to declare martial law. and we are hearing reports that

as a result of that motion successful motion, the some of the military or marshal law agents have began going to move away from the national assembly. there were reports of helicopters entering the premises . we are hearing reports that they are also moving back. and interestingly, we are also seeing pictures of the leaders of the 2 opposing political parties, the democratic party, and the people power party, which is the president's party coming together and shaking hands. and this is notable for koreans because really the political landscape here in south korea has been sharply polarized up until this point. but it seems that because the president does not seem to have an ally right now with this shocking motion, the opposing political parties are somehow coming together to bring normal c

back to the countries. um, we are also hearing reports since the last 4 on that does the education ministry has announced that schools will reopen. as usual. we are hearing from the transportation ministry that public transport will also function as normal. so it doesn't seem that daily life for a south, koreans will be terribly impacted as a result of this late night approximation. but in terms of what, how the military and the police now that they're kind of stuck in the middle between the president's declaration and the national assembly, calling for it's notification. how they react to a large groups of people gathering to protests, which is again banned under martial law of that we will have to watch and see if if this does intensify in the coming days. your news. thank you very much for the

moment eunice can live there in. so where as you can see on the left hand side of the screen, people have gathered outside the national assembly hold to protest the decision by the president who declared uh who did lead. marshall know earlier today aside team concerns about the opposition whom he called sympathizes of the communist regime in north korea. he announced this declaration about a few hours ago which then led to police blocking off the access to the parliament building. but lawmakers did manage to make it into the national assembly. and in the last few minutes, about half an hour or so ago voted to block this martial law declaration announced by the president. let's take listen to what's happening outside of the national assembly. and so right the .