South Korea experienced a short-lived period of martial law this week at the order of President Yoon Suk Yeol, in what appears to have been an effort to root out what he called destabilizing communist forces in the country.
According to retired Marine Col. Grant Newsham, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the author of “When China Attacks,” there is no smoking gun of direct Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference that would warrant such a move. However, he says the CCP is waging what he calls entropic warfare on the country—which is geared toward reducing South Korea’s ability to respond to threats and defend itself.