Seoul, December 2024. President Yoon has declared martial law and sent troops to shut the parliament before it can vote the order down. The detachment ordered to seize the servers detoured to a convenience store for ramen. Officers drove their men to the parliament and then kept them sitting in the buses. Someone found an airspace reason the helicopters couldn't take off; someone else found the ammunition reserves too low to issue. Paul Rogat Loeb on why coups are stopped by friction rather than courage.
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