SOUTH KOREA PERSPECTIVE

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung responded quickly on X, condemning the incident as a 'grave threat to democracy.' The Korea Times notes that this position comes as South Korea itself recently navigated a major political crisis. Yonhap News Agency covered the evacuation in real-time with successive updates. The Korean angle frames a fragile democracy observing with concern the rising political violence in the world's leading superpower—a mirror held to South Korea's own recent turbulence.