"President Yoon has taken an overwhelmingly pro-US policy compared to previous presidents," and his "PPP is fiercely anti-communist and advocates a hawkish policy against North Korea" [1]. With "many PPP politicians support[ing] South Korea having nuclear weapons on its own," this is not the man Pyongyang or Moscow want as dicator in Seoul.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Party_(South_Kore...
Think about what's going to happen next! You have an extremely unpopular leader trying to sieze power by force, presumably soon banning opposition parties and more.
It's going to create extreme discontent at the minimum, and civil war at a maximum. And once he's eventually overthrown, his allies and interests often become anathema to the next regime, and the people.
This is is like an enemy successfully carrying out a color revolution on fast forward.
By this logic America won when Assad won the Syrian civil war. In geopolitics, power trumps popularity.
It's more akin to saying that states adversarial to the US won after the CIA overthrew a popular secular democracy in Iran, and installed a extremely unpopular puppet monarchy that was obseqious to the US.
In general maintaining power without relatively widespread support is quite difficult - probably even more so in the digital era which makes conspiracies so much easier to organise.
[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrian...
"Some 55% of Syrians want Assad to stay, motivated by fear of civil war" is not 55% approval rating, it's 55% making the pragmatic choice against civil war.
> maintaining power without relatively widespread support is quite difficult
Strange claim in a thread about the Korean peninsula.
Seems there yet remains more to power than titles and declarations.
He hasn't done anything illegal. Being asked to resign or forced to by impeachment are more likely.
If there were a prediction market for this within 3 years, I'd expect the line to be around 70%. He just did a weird spin on the 'if you go after the king, don't miss' and missed.