Yoon has been incarcerated since last week under a separate criminal probe on charges of leading an insurrection with his attempt to impose martial law in early December, a move that shocked the ...

South Korea’s impeached president denied that he had ordered the military to drag out lawmakers at the National Assembly to prevent them from voting down his martial law decree last month ...

“They want to turn this nation into a colony of China and North Korea, backed by China’s financial power,” the defence argued. Choi Jin, head of the Institute for Presidential ...

Shortly after Yoon’s aborted martial law declaration last month ... as industrial overcapacity and sluggish demand in China spill over into global markets. More worrying, Chinese companies ...

He faces possible imprisonment over his short-lived imposition of martial law ... to the Seoul High Court and Supreme Court. Under South Korean law, orchestrating a rebellion is punishable ...

Kim’s lawyer Lee Ha-sang told reporters on Thursday (Jan 16) that “no mistakes were made” when writing the martial law decree, saying it was to “ban political activities in a situation ...

Investigators are expected to move to place him under arrest in the coming days ... police and the military over whether Yoon’s martial law declaration amounted to attempted rebellion, has ...

It outlined five constitutional violations as grounds for confirming Mr Yoon’s impeachment: his declaration of martial law, his ordering the obstruction of parliamentary activities through the ...