Mastodawn

What a real democracy does to a president who leads a seditious insurrection. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/asia/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-verdict-insurrection-intl-hnk

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection during his short-lived imposition of martial law, which plunged the country into political chaos and threatened to unravel decades of democracy.

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HakeemG

@heidilifeldman A democracy is only as strong as the people who are represented by it. If S. Korea had elected a bunch of psychopath Republicans to their Congress this guy would have never been impeached. In a similar fashion if the American people hadn't re-elected Trump he would be in or on his way to prison.