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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo

North Korea decries ‘dictatorship’ in South in wake of martial law attempt

Kim Jong-un inspects his troops in Pyongyang in November.
Kim Jong-un inspects his troops in Pyongyang in November. State media has criticised South Korean president Yoon’s attempt to unleash a ‘dictatorship on the people’. Photograph: KCNA via KNS/AFP/Getty Images

North Korea has broken its silence over the political turmoil in South Korea, with state media describing, without any apparent hint of irony, how its president had unleashed a “dictatorship on the people”.

The commentary, released on Wednesday by North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency, was the first time the regime had commented publicly on the chaos that followed President Yoon Suk Yeol’s doomed attempt last week to impose martial law to root out what he described as “pro-North Korean, anti-state forces”.

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