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Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.

A college friend of mine commented that it's very confusing because a conservative president is asking the NIS to arrest the conservative party leader and this is being exclusively reported by a conservative newspaper. "I bet KJU isn't saying anything about it because he's as confused as we are."

Lol earlier today the Office of the President handed out a statement saying Yoon had never ordered the arrest of any National Assembly member but then canceled the statement and requested journalists to delete previous statement:

Anyway! This is an interesting wrinkle because the National Assembly still needs an additional 8 votes from the conservatives to have enough to pass impeachment, and the person President Yoon has apparently tried to arrest is... the leader of the conservative party.

Yesterday, the conservative party leader stated the party was unified against impeachment. Today, after the above came out and having met with the president, he refused to answer questions as to whether he still stands against impeachment. A lot can change in a day. One more day until vote deadline

Conservative party leader Han Dong-hoon: "President Yoon refuses to admit the illegal declaration of martial law was wrong. Because of this, there are strong concerns that if he were to continue in his office as the President of the Republic of Korea, he may engage in another extreme action."

DYING... In the phone call in the first post, as the President started listing the names of the people he wanted "cooperation for their arrest," the NIS man is said to have been so appalled he thought, 'Crazy bastard (미친X)' and stopped taking notes.

Apparently the NIS was asked to "cooperate" in the arrest of the opposition leader Lee Jae-myung (the one who livestreamed himself climbing over the National Assembly fence to make the martial law invalidation vote—see below) as well as members of his own party.

Or *a* member of his own party (see first post). Also former supreme court justices (these are different from constitutional court justices... long story), an unspecified labor union leader, a political activist, and a broadcast personality. There were other names after he stopped note-taking.

All this is evidence that came to light only this afternoon. The conservative party is currently debating as to whether to change their stance on a united front against impeachment. Reminder that the National Assembly needs eight votes from the conservative party to pass impeachment.

Yonhap News did a summary of everything that went down today. Interesting point for me is that the commanding officer for the soldiers going into the National Assembly was ordered by the (former) defense minister to drag out the lawmakers by force. He refused that order (2:50). youtu.be/lD9oqDiC8wU

Special Forces Commander Kwak Jong-geun: "But when I was there on site, I judged that it would clearly be illegal to force the National Assembly members out of the National Assembly. I knew it would be insubordination, but I did not relay that order."

In video from that night, actor Lee Kwan-hoon, who was also in special forces (707th) during his conscript days, talked calmly to his whobaes, telling them to think for themselves, that they had their own minds, that they must keep a cool head and not be too physically violent.

There will come a time when these young men are no longer in the military and we shall hear their stories.

"We weren't given any information about the structure of the National Assembly when we landed. It made no sense." "Even long after we had entered the building, we received no further orders." "To carry Ithacas (shotguns) against unarmed civilians seemed completely unnecessary."

"We are tier 1 special ops. We're trained to assassinate terrorists . . . To think we were being used to storm the National Assembly was deeply demoralizing." "We could've cleared that building in ten, fifteen minutes if we really wanted to. We just walked when we could run."