The only North Korean defector currently serving in South Korea’s parliament says he opposes impeaching Yoon Suk-yeol for declaring martial law earlier this week, despite criticizing the president’s unprecedented decree as “lacking legitimacy.”

In an interview on Friday afternoon, People Power Party (PPP) lawmaker Park Choong-kwon told NK News that impeaching Yoon would build on the “bad precedent” set by former President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment and lead to a “repeated pattern” of the opposition Democratic Party “paralyzing” national affairs.

The first-term lawmaker also weighed in on Yoon’s claims that martial law was necessary to root out “pro-North Korea forces” and