[tankenmate]

Maybe declaring martial law when there isn't a violent overthrow of the government in progress doesn't really garner much sympathy.

[bilbo0s]

He's being "oppressed" by all the "enemies of South Korea" out there engaging in the newly anti-South Korean practices of "reason and logic".

[petesergeant]

Yes brother, that was my point, wrt to the text I quoted

[happytoexplain]

I read it the same way the parent did - can you clarify?

[petesergeant]

There’s not usually much space between consensus Western opinion (when there is one) and AP editorial stance, so if they think he’s a loon, it’s safe to assume most in the West will too. “Unsympathetic towards” does not mean “biased against”

[brvsft]

His point was that Westerners aren't necessarily going to be fooled, with the example of the AP (Western) viewing his declaration of martial law unsympathetically.