South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would lift his order to impose martial law, hours after triggering a political crisis in the country.
Yoon, a hardline former chief prosecutor, said early on Wednesday morning that he would withdraw the decree that he had announced on Tuesday night.
He had justified the martial law order as being necessary to “eliminate anti-state forces as quickly as possible and normalise the country”, but it was rejected unanimously by members of South Korea’s national assembly.
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