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though lawyers repeatedly demanded thorough investigations the courts have
refused. And the ballot anomalies have gone unmentioned in their rulings.

Lawyers pursuing claims of electoral fraud have frequently cited the courts’
unwillingness to preserve evidence—especially critical in election-related cases—or to
grant access to and allow thorough examination of existing data and evidence. And in
the case of election system technology such as servers and ballot counting machines,
they’ve presented an impenetrable obstacle.

As mentioned earlier, the South Korean judiciary’s delay in taking up and resolving
suits claiming election irregularities within the legally required 180 days – if they
even take the case at all – is hard to square with the idea of a diligent, impartial
judiciary that is interested in maintaining the legitimacy of the electoral system.

Indeed, the right to bring challenges over fraud and wrongdoing in the electoral
process and to have timely resolution are basic features of free-and-fair elections and
well-run electoral systems – according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
that serves as the basis of international electoral law.

2024 Six Hour Martial Law and Cui Bono

Election integrity - or better said, concerns over election integrity – and the failure of
South Korean authorities, the political class, and the media to address these concerns
played a role, and arguably a key role, in South Korea reaching a boiling point.

Yoon felt he had no choice as the leftist opposition that overwhelmingly controls the
National Assembly was making the country ungovernable.

Yoon lifted the martial law order in accordance with constitutional procedures six-
hours after it was announced, but the damage was done – to South Korean society,
the nation’s reputation, to US-ROK relations, and of course to emerging trilateral
relations.

One fairly asks, who benefits from the degradation and damage, the "entropic
warfare" that has been carried out in and against South Korea for at least the last
seven years, and that exploded when Yoon declared martial law?

More than anyone, it’s the People’s Republic of China.

One reasonably believes they encourage it, given the PRC's track record of employing
entropic warfare and political warfare from Washington to the Solomon Islands and
beyond.

Turning a key American ally in Northeast Asia into a pro-China, pro-North Korea
one-party state would be a strategic achievement worth almost any price to achieve.
And to include working with allies in-country to manipulate the South Korean
electoral system to benefit its friends in the Democratic Party would be a dream
come true.

The Democratic Party’s impeachment motion following Yoon’s lifting of martial law
gives a sense of what things will be like if the DP achieves its goal of full control.

“[U]nder the guise of so-called ‘value diplomacy,’ Yoon has neglected geopolitical
balance, antagonizing North Korea, China, and Russia, adhering to a bizarre Japan-

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