US EditionSouth Korea's Lee says on martial law anniversary perpetrators must face justice
President Lee calls for Dec. 3 to honor citizens who peacefully stopped the 2024 martial law attempt and highlights ongoing trials against the alleged perpetrators.
- On December 3, 2024, former President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, suspending civilian rule and deploying soldiers and tanks in Seoul, central districts.
- Investigators rely on presidential office video files, draft decrees and witness testimony to reconstruct the crucial hours before the decree, while prosecutors and judges examine whether military and intelligence directives were lawful or politically driven.
- Video shows former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo handling documents he denied seeing, prosecutors presented footage of him signaling Cabinet quorum needs, and Yeo In-hyung later expressed remorse after additional detention.
- Hearings have continued through the winter recess as prosecutors prepare sentencing recommendations for early January, with a first-instance ruling anticipated by mid-February.
- The episode reshaped Korea's political landscape, with nearly every major figure now before the courts, while Kim led a dozen lawmakers on Dec 14 to pass the impeachment measure.
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Twelve months after the night the predecessor Yoon tried to impose martial law, the current president Lee exalts the resilience of South Korean democracy and candidates his people to the Nobel Peace Prize. Even 25 keynote speakers of the then ruling party have made public apologies. Meanwhile the trials continue: asked 14 years for corruption for the former first-lady.
South Korea's Lee says on martial law anniversary perpetrators must face justice
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Wednesday there was still work to be done to address the fallout of the failed martial law bid by his predecessor a year ago, and the country needed to ensure the perpetrators were brought to justice.
South Korea's Lee vows 'strict accountability' for martial law perpetrators a year after Yoon’s ‘self-coup' attempt
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung marked the first anniversary of Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed martial law declaration with a pledge to hold all perpetrators to account.
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