South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol makes an unexpected televised address late at night (local time) and declares martial ...

It may seem that the wild predawn scenes in Seoul, with hundreds of armed troops and frantic lawmakers storming South Korea's ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Martial law was eventually lifted in 1981.

The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the ...

Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...

Though martial law isn't well defined in U.S. law, it has been imposed at the state and federal level to respond to ...

South Korea has long battled military coups and martial law before it became a democratic nation in the late 1980s.

The troubled history of its presidents reveals a legacy of authoritarian regimes, political turmoil, and the transition to ...

Declaring martial law during crises or to assert political control has a history in South Korea, used repeatedly by ...

While martial law is relatively rare, its history in the U.S. is marked by moments of crisis, from civil unrest to natural ...

It came as a shock both domestically and abroad when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law on Dec ...