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It has been a whirlwind 24 hours in South Korea.
The country's been plunged into a profound political crisis that seems to have caught everyone by surprise.
And all this next door to nuclear, armed and unpredictable North Korea.
It all began with a shock declaration of martial law by President Yoon Sung Yul, ostensibly because of the threat from the north and what he called anti state forces.
Well, that quickly brought protesters onto the streets outside the country's national assembly in the capital, Seoul.
And it also provoked a scramble, literally in some cases by lawmakers trying to get around or over the barricades and into the parliament building so they could vote in the early hours of this morning on a measure to overturn the president's decree.
And that was the moment one member of the opposition, a spokeswoman, Ahn GWI Ryong, was caught on camera trying to wrestle a gun away from one of the soldiers guarding the assembly building.
Well, within hours of his initial announcement, the president had backed down following the.
National Assembly's demand to lift martial law.
Troops have been withdrawn.