The public prosecutor’s office South Korea He said this Monday that the former president Yoon Suk-yeol began preparations for the failed introduction of the Martial law at least a year in advance before it is enacted in December 2024, according to a report sent to the press.
Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-suk’s team presented the results of a six-month investigation and accused Yoon of preempting the move by restructuring the military October 2023when he placed commanders who would later be implicated in the case in key positions.
Prosecutors also said Yoon tried to provoke a military response from the regime. North Korea with the sending of Drones to justify martial law, a plan that failed when there was no retaliation from Pyongyang.
This was the result of the investigations by a special public prosecutor’s office Yoon used military operations as part of a plan to provoke the North and thus create a scenario that would allow him to declare military control of the country.
The prosecutor Park Ji-young reported that the special team had made “allegations of favoring the enemy in general and abuse of power” against the former president. “Yoon and others conspired to create conditions that would allow the declaration of a martial law state of emergency, increasing the risk of inter-Korean armed confrontation and harming public military interests.”Park noted.
The South Korean prosecutor added that the key evidence came from a memo written by the then military counterintelligence chief in October last year. The document demanded: “create an unstable situation or take advantage of an opportunity that presents itself“.
The text also says that the army should “target places that bring them (the North) a loss of honor so that a reaction is inevitable, such as Pyongyang or the coastal city of Wonsan.”
The Pyongyang regime claimed last year that it had “tried“, at which the South fired drones They throw propaganda leaflets at their capitalan action that South Korean forces have never officially confirmed.
The conflict between the two Koreas has continued since then without a peace treaty Armistice that ended the 1950-1953 warwhich technically makes both countries at war.
Yoon Suk-yeol is charged with… revolt, Abuse of power, Obstruction of justice, help an enemy And perjuryregarding martial law, which the then-President justified as a way to protect the nation from “anti-state forces“.
In total, 24 people were charged in the case related to the state of emergency, including the then Prime Minister Han Duck-soowho, alongside the former director of the National Intelligence Service and the former defense minister, will receive the first verdict at the end of January.
Yoon declared martial law on December 3, 2024, a measure that Parliament revoked hours later. The former president he was released in April 2025 and presidential elections were held in the country in June.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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