The Daily Populous Saturday December 7th, 2024 evening edition
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SilentSolstice_82 on December 7th, 2024 at 05:52 UTC »

The footage is actually taken out of context.

If you watch the footage that takes place right before this clip you will learn that the female politician literally walks up to the standing soldier, grabs his gun by the barrel, and points it toward herself. Then she says stuff like "let go of me" (while grabbing onto the soldier) "let go of the gun" and all the good-sounding words that would look good on the media.

She did it solely for the purpose of gaining her political supporters, and she took a rather drastic measure, because before the event her political standing was on the near verge of ending (she'd been really messing up on her career).

A lot of Koreans actually blame her as the person who almost escalated the event to the point of no return, because by Korean military law (I'm sure it's the same everywhere), when another person tries to take away your gun from your possession, you have all the rights to "attack" him/her. The soldier's decision to actually hold back literally prevented the whole martial law event from escalating to the next level.

Yet, the soldier is getting all the hates by certain groups of Korean people just so that the female politician can regain her popularity - which is media control at the finest if anything.

HawaiianSteak on December 7th, 2024 at 07:49 UTC »

Was it cropped? I seem to remember (I could be wrong though) the soldier had trigger discipline.

Dixizi on December 7th, 2024 at 12:04 UTC »

Wtf is wrong with this subreddit? Spreading all the misinformation