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Not a surprise, if anything it's a surprising it didn't succeed and you have to wonder why.
Also I have to laugh at the fact they sent their elite special forces unit whose job was to assassinate the DPRK leadership to Seoul in DPRK uniforms and the plan was if they couldn't kill the opposition puppet Korean leadership, they were to be killed by other forces as enemy troops and the opposition killed in the cross-fire to that. Imagine being part of this elite group of boot-lickers and learning your leadership planned to have you killed if your plan didn't quite go right, you might not even get a proper burial under your real name if the need for maintaining the illusion persisted, your loved ones left wondering about what truly happened. Pathetic.
Tbh I'm still confused why it didn't work. Why did he just accept the lawmakers when they voted it down? Especially since the military said they wouldn't step down unless the President ordered them to, it seemed like he had them on his side. Were there some other key people he was missing? Some generals or cabinet members or something?
The south korean military probably realized that they would get curbstomped by the north so they backed out.