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Seeing red: Yoon’s ‘pro-North Korea forces’ rhetoric evokes authoritarian past

Seeing red: Yoon’s ‘pro-North Korea forces’ rhetoric evokes authoritarian past

Martial law declaration to root out ‘anti-state forces’ drew on anti-communist logic long used to stifle ROK democracy

The flag of the DPRK's Workers' Party of Korea overlayed on a photo of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol | Image: ROK Presidential Office, edited by NK News

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Dan Gudgeon, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna who previously worked for the South Korean NGO Korean Sharing Movement . Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Dan Gudgeon, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna who previously worked for the South Korean NGO Korean Sharing Movement . Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

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