Rep. Andy Kim, poised to become the highest-ranking Korean American politician in the United States when he is sworn in as a senator, said Tuesday he is deeply relieved that martial law in South Korea has been lifted, just hours after it was invoked by the country’s unpopular president.
But Kim, D-N.J., said he is still troubled that the situation in Seoul took the drastic and shocking turn it did, resulting in the South Korean parliament convening an emergency session to pass, 190-0, a measure demanding that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol revoke the martial law he had imposed hours earlier.
Yoon ultimately complied, lifting martial law in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
