“if you have the conscience to wear military uniforms, please leave the National Assembly immediatly!”
Standing in front of martial law forces armed with black rifles and state-of-the-art equipment, National Assembly staff and citizens did not spare their bodies and blocked the entrance to the National Assembly. At 12:30 a.m. on the 4th, two hours after President Yoon Seok-yeol declared martial law. the entrance to the main building of the National Assembly was in a tense atmosphere with martial law forces attempting to enter and citizens blocking them.
![Martial law ended in failure, an urgent ‘155 minutes'[청계천 옆 사진관]](https://dimg.donga.com/wps/NEWS/IMAGE/2024/12/04/130572253.1.jpg "Martial law ended in failure, an urgent ‘155 minutes'[청계천 옆 사진관]")
The bare-bones employees desperately began to block the martial law forces. Some of the martial law troops tried to enter by pushing the National Assembly staff with bulletproof shields, but the heightened atmosphere soon calmed down due to dissuasion from people on both sides who were concerned that it would escalate into a bigger conflict.
When news broke that some of the martial law troops had moved to the east, where the People Power Party offices were concentrated, and broke the windows and entered the National Assembly, the scene became agitated again. Martial law troops who had already entered the National assembly were heading toward the entrance of the main conference hall along the passage on the second floor of the main building.
Thay were soon trapped by barricades set up by National Assembly staff and were stranded on the narrow road leading to the main conference hall. The standoff between national Assembly staff and martial law forces continued for a long time across an improvised barricade made of sofas and desks.
What broke the silence was the shout of a National Assembly employee. A National assembly employee wearing a black suit loudly warned, “A resolution requesting the lifting of martial law was just passed at the plenary session,” and “If you take even one step from there, you will all have committed an illegal act.” The martial law troops, who were looking at each other’s faces and hesitating, soon began to leave the main building.
The martial law troops began to withdraw from the National Assembly with gloomy expressions, as if they had lost their will to fight. When some of them were caught by the Dong-A Ilbo camera, they raised their hands and covered their faces, saying, “You must not take pictures.”
The martial law troops left the main building of the National Assembly without clashing and began walking toward the main gate. As the number of citizens watching them trudge out of the National Assembly increased, the heads of the martial law soldiers turned to the ground. President Yoon seok-yeol’s martial law ended in failure after 155 minutes.
![Martial law ended in failure, an urgent '155 minutes'[청계천 옆 사진관]](https://dimg.donga.com/a/180/101/95/2/wps/NEWS/IMAGE/2024/12/04/130572259.1.jpg)
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