It's no surprise the book has become a bestseller: after all, it claims to be a first-hand account of events that have already gone down as some of the most dramatic in South Korea's political history ...

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It also said that no elections can be held until the lifting of martial law after the coming of a "just and lasting peace." Zelenskyy was elected in a landslide in 2019, but his term expired last May.