Image Credit: Breaking Defense On June 3, 2025, Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party won the South Korean presidential elections by a landslide. He swept the governing People’s Power Party out of office—the same party whose leader, then-president Yoon Suk-yeol—had declared martial law six months earlier. With this defeat, the months of political turmoil ended, … Continue reading The Soldier and the Democratic State: Civil-Military Relations and South Korea’s 2024 Constitutional Crisis
