Legally Preparing for a Bloody Pandemonium: The Declaration of Martial Law, and the Rise of an Anti-communist Security State in South Korea
摘要
The outbreak of the YŏSun Rebellion was a military emergency but also an unexpected political expedient for Rhee to justify a more solidified hold on power, because Rhee was forced to rescind his own allegiance to the very rule he had established to make freedom a public good.