Wednesday saw the first hearing by a special parliamentary audit commission investigating allegations of insurrection
Suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol will attend the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial on Thursday, his lawyers said, as former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun is slated to appear and testify as well.
South Korea's National assembly passed a revised special counsel bill to investigate insurrection charges against President Yoon Suk Yeol, news agency Yonhap reported on Friday.
South Korea’s impeached president has denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the Constitutional Court that will determine his fate.
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been formally arrested, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul.
Kim says he advised Yoon to declare martial law Former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun admitted to having drafted Martial Law Proclamation No. 1 and advising President Yoon Suk Yeol to declare martial law during Yoon's impeachment trial on Thursday.
Yoon Suk Yeol has faced South Korea's constitutional court for the first time, following last month's martial law saga.
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South Korean investigators recommended Thursday that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol be charged with insurrection and abuse of power, as they handed over the results of their probe into his ill-fated declaration of martial law to prosecutors.
The commonalities between President Trump and President Yoon are uncanny,’ says an influential Korean-American political action committee.
President Yoon Suk Yeol and other individuals implicated in his short-lived imposition of martial law failed to attend an afternoon hearing at the National Assembly on Wednesday despite being ordered to do so by a parliamentary committee.