As South Korea's president faces a new impeachment attempt, he defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges.

North Korea, in its first public response to last week’s events, lambasted its southern neighbor as a “fascist dictatorship.”

In a fiery televised statement, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his short-lived martial law decree as a necessary act of governance and vowed to “fight to the end” in the face of opposition-led attempts to impeach him,