South Korea's US-backed President Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup attempt, but failed. He tried to provoke war with North Korea by attacking with drones, hoping to justify imposing martial law, but the DPRK showed restraint. Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitics of the crisis, addressing NATO, China, Japan, and more.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXKAkieFkY
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Yoon Suk Yeol, DC darling
2:11 Authoritarianism in South Korea & Japan
3:07 Washington's anti-China alliance
3:46 Yoon plotted war with North Korea
6:15 Yoon ordered military to assault lawmakers
7:51 South Korean opposition
9:00 Crazy coup plot
10:55 Coup planned in advance
11:39 Opposition warned of martial law
12:11 Yoon's corruption & unpopularity
14:01 Class war
15:02 Chaebols: corporate oligopolies
17:21 US military bases
18:49 South Korea: a US "client"
19:54 (CLIP) Yoon's speech to US Congress
22:23 Yoon blames "Chinese spies"
23:04 US cultivates anti-China assets
23:54 Lee Jae-myung opposes conflict with China
26:20 Japan
29:32 NATO
30:30 USA targets "Axis of Adversaries"
31:14 US nuclear threats
33:12 NYPD spends more than DPRK military
34:06 Korean War
34:43 USA killed 20% of North Korea's population
36:56 UK plans for world war
38:00 Outro
