Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s since-impeached president, had been planning for months to impose martial law and target political opponents, according to accounts.

So if the decision is ‘removal’, it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun told a news conference.

The blunder means that a liberal party, wary of the US, may win the presidency and totally alter the country’s foreign relations. Read more at straitstimes.com.