Fake truth for deniers

The fake truth hinders South Korea’s ability to overcome the political crisis from President Yoon’s actions.

More than 50 days have passed since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s insurrection on December 3, and we are still facing absurdities and impudence. President Yoon appeared at his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court and denied he ordered the troops to drag lawmakers out from the National Assembly. What he said was totally different from the statements of the military commanders who had participated in the insurrection. Several days ago, hundreds of his supporters had vandalised the Seoul Western District Court, protesting the court issuing a formal detention warrant for him. A couple of days before the vandalism, there was a shocking headline by a small right-wing newspaper that South Korean and American soldiers had arrested 99 Chinese spies at a facility of the National Election Commission on the night of martial law and they were sent to the US. Even though the story cannot be true because that kind of operation violates the sovereignty of South Korea, the newspaper never admitted that its report was false.