Ju-Hyun Park is the engagement editor at The Real News and an organizer with Nodutdol.
Citing anonymous military sources, lawmaker Kim Byung-joo, a former four-star general, Kim told fellow lawmakers on December 10 that 20 members of the Special Forces’ Headquarters Intelligence Detachment (HID) unit “were on standby at a location in Seoul” on the night of the martial law order. Kim claims the HID unit would have been mobilized to the National Assembly to arrest lawmakers, and questions whether they would have killed those who resisted, possibly while wearing fake North Korean uniforms
There have also been uncorroborated reports that the Martial Law Command had planned assassinations and other acts of violence to provide a falsified pretext for martial law, in which South Korean soldiers would be suited in uniforms of the North Korean People’s Army to misdirect responsibility. At this time, evidence for this allegation is thin. However, it does appear that an operation of some sort may have been in the works.
Anon sources and such because intel high level gov.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/13/was-south-koreas-coup-an-attempt-to-restart-the-korean-war/
Ju-Hyun Park is the engagement editor at The Real News and an organizer with Nodutdol.
BluRoofPolitics twitter thread.
https://xcancel.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1866500696260145330
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/03/how-yoon-planned-to-set-south-korea-on-the-path-to-military-dictatorship/