SEOUL — Parliamentary staffers used sofas and fire extinguishers to block soldiers armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles from entering South Korea's National Assembly to maintain martial law, closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage released on Wednesday showed.
SEOUL — Parliamentary staffers used sofas and fire extinguishers to block soldiers armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles from entering South Korea's National Assembly to maintain martial law, closed-circuit television footage released on Wednesday showed.
Undeterred, An, a former news anchor, shouted: 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself?' footage of the incident showed.'I had no choice but to stop them from entering the main building because a resolution was being submitted to block the martial law,' An told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday.
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