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According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now. We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.

I am watching MBC. The Speaker of the National Assembly (Woo Won-shik) just emphasized that there are procedural rules to follow and they will follow them.

There are 150 National Assembly members currently gathered. There should be 300 members in all. The current National Assembly is majority opposition (155). The Korean president is conservative.

They are now playing footage from the inside where soldiers are trying to enter the main assembly hall. The opposition (Democratic Party) aides are shown to barricading the doors. Live footage of the main assembly hall shows no soldiers.

Speaker Woo is calming everyone down—he has expressed his disapproval of this martial law declaration, but that they need to follow procedure. An off-screen National Assembly member added that the whole world is watching through live TV and they need to stay calm and carry out the letter of the law.

"The agenda item has to be declared first"—not sure why it is not being declared. Most of the aides are gathered at or near the main entrance. They have barricaded the doors. The military has dispatched the airborne infantry to the National Assembly (I can't believe I just typed that).

The fact that the MILITARY is INSIDE the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The National Assembly aides were summoned to the National Assembly immediately after the declaration, which means there are quite a few of them in there, our last line of defense of our democracy