SEOUL: For the first time since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s period of martial law, North Korean state media have covered South Korea’s ongoing political unrest.
The KCNA in North Korea released an article about the escalating “social unrest” in the South as a result of the martial law crisis after a week-long silence.
Concerns about a power vacuum were raised by last week’s surprise martial law order, which sent shockwaves through the diplomatic and economic fronts and threw Asia’s fourth-largest economy—a crucial ally of the United States—into a constitutional crisis.
The dispatch mostly reported on a series of demonstrations that more than a million people participated in, demanding Yoon’s impeachment, but it did not provide much commentary.
