South Korea president says will lift martial law

Update:SouthKorea s cabinet approved a motion to lift martial law, Yonhap news agency reported, minutes after President Yoon Suk Yeol announced that h...

Update: South Korea's cabinet approved a motion to lift martial law, Yonhap news agency reported, minutes after President Yoon Suk Yeol announced that he had withdrawn his bid to impose martial law, and that cabinet was required to lift it.

Seoul: South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol said today, December 3, martial law would be lifted and troops withdrawn, hours after he made the shock declaration.

"Just a moment ago, there was a demand from the National Assembly to lift the state of emergency, and we have withdrawn the military that was deployed for martial law operations," Yoon said in a televised address.

"We will accept the National Assembly's request and lift the martial law through the Cabinet meeting."

In a dramatic, emergency television address to the nation, Yoon late on Tuesday night announced that he was imposing martial law, accusing the opposition of paralysing the government with "anti-state activities".