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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
I'm Celia Hatton coming to you live from London.
Let's go straight to our top story breaking in the last hour and a half, the President of South Korea has declared martial law, saying the country needed to be protected from North Korea's communist forces.
He made the announcement in a late night television address.
Dear citizens, I hereby declare martial law to protect the Republic of Korea from the threats posed by North Korean communist forces and to eradicate in one sweep the shameless pro north anti state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people and to safeguard the constitutional order of freedom.
That was the President of South Korea, Yoon Sung Nyeol.
Let's go live now to the capital Seoul and speak to freelance journalist Nemo Kim.
Nemo, I want to get to what's actually happening in Seoul in just a moment, but first, can you tell us more about what the President actually said?
Yes.
Just as the report just now mentioned, President Yoon used extremely strong words when he imposed the emergency martial law.
The speech got, the wording of the speech got stronger as he went on.
And it was very reminiscent of the situation in South Korea back in the 1980s when we actually had curfews and stuff.
So he basically said that there are clear anti state behavior aimed at inciting rebellion on the part of the opposition party.