Daily Cuts - Turmoil in South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law U-turn weakens his position
In just a span of a few hours, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol backed down from a standoff with opposition parliamentarians who voted against a martial law decreed by the leader. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak to Sung Yoon Lee, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, to take stock of the president’s options and assess the deep political turmoil the country has been plunged into.