This was a very rushed decision: Analysis

Parliament moved swiftly to reject President Yoon’s martial law order, but that does not put to rest concerns about democratic backsliding in South Korea, Greg Scarlatoiu, the president and CEO of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, told Al Jazeera. “Article 77 of the South Korean Constitution stipulates that martial law may be declared when the country basically faces an existential threat; it seems that this is a fairly frivolous exercise in declaring martial law,” he said. Meanwhile, Natalia Slavney, a research analyst at the Stimson Center and assistant editor for 38 North, a web journal that provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea, said President Yoon’s martial law declaration was a “miscalculation.”. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #SouthKorea #MartialLaw #YoonSukYeol #ConstitutionalCrisis #NorthKorea #OppositionParty #ParliamentVote #BreakingNews #AlJazeeraEnglish