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South Korea ex-president back in court for criminal trial

  • Yoon Suk Yeol, the former President of South Korea, is in court for insurrection charges linked to his martial law declaration on December 3, 2024.
  • Yoon was impeached and stripped of office and is the first South Korean president to face a criminal trial.
  • If found guilty, Yoon could receive life in prison or the death penalty, although executions have been unofficially halted since 1997.
  • Police attempted to raid Yoon's former office regarding obstruction charges but were denied access by presidential security.
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Author Yoo Si-min has fiercely criticized Chief Judge Ji Gwi-yeon, who was in charge of the trial related to the 12/3 martial law incident. In a column for the online media outlet ‘Dandelion’ on the 21st, author Yoo criticized Chief Judge Ji, who made the decision to cancel the arrest of former President Yoon Seok-yeol, as “a ‘magician’

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South Korea ex-president back in court for criminal trial

South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Monday for the second hearing of his criminal trial to defend himself against insurrection charges over his short-lived declaration of martial law.

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
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