The former prime minister of South Korea, Han Duck-soo, has become the first official from former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration to be awarded the jail sentence for his involvement in the imposition of martial law in 2024. Han Duck-soo has been given 23 years in prison by a South Korean court. The court, while…
A South Korean judge sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration and in its chaotic aftermath. It is the first in a series of verdicts for the disgraced ex-leader, whose brief suspension of civilian rule in…
South Korea’s special prosecutor has requested the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of masterminding an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. South Korea has not carried out a death sentence in nearly three decades. In closing arguments at the Seoul Central District Court late on…
