Taiwan opposition seeks new rules on martial law after South Korea

KMT, which used such powers for 38 years, wants submission to legislature in 24 hours

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A changing of the guard ceremony outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei in July. © Reuters

THOMPSON CHAU, Contributing writer

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's political opposition has proposed changes to martial law regulations that would, if passed, allow the legislature to more easily dismiss such a declaration by the president.

The proposal comes days after a short-lived declaration of martial law by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol plunged his country into a political crisis. For some observers, that move brought back painful memories of the decades Taiwan had spent under martial law before its democratization.

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