"It was clearly illegal to drag lawmakers out, and the people carrying out that mission would naturally be held legally responsible later," South Korean Army Special Warfare commander Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-keun said in a meeting with lawmaker Kim Byung-joo.
"These soldiers that were sent in were not conscripts. They were professionals, all of them. The people that tasked them did not realize that they're democratically trained citizen soldiers, not zombies," retired special forces commander Lt. Gen. Chun In-bum tells NPR.
"As a result of the commanders' refusal to follow the former defense minister's orders, the lawmakers stayed in Parliament and voted unanimously to demand that Yoon cancel his martial law order, which he did early on Wednesday, some six hours after issuing it."
"Yoon's then-defense minister ordered troops to remove lawmakers from South Korea's parliament building and detain them—something the military refused to do. Kim Yong-hyun, the defense minister, subsequently resigned."
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