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South Korea’s parliament has passed amendments to the martial law regulations, now explicitly prohibiting any effort to block lawmakers from entering the National Assembly.
The changes, approved on Thursday, follow the political turmoil triggered by former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law last December.
Under the revised law, both military and police forces are also barred from entering the National Assembly premises without prior consent from the assembly speaker.
The new rules include barring any attempt to hinder lawmakers from entering the National Assembly, and prohibiting the military and police from entering the National Assembly without the approval of the Speaker of the National Assembly.
Yoon’s martial law decree was lifted after about six hours when lawmakers, who had been forced to scale walls of the assembly building to make it through a ring of security forces, voted the decree down.