South Korean prosecutors indicted the former president on Monday of this week. Yoon Seok Yeol He was indicted on new charges of aiding the “enemy,” alleging he ordered a drone flight over North Korea to enforce the declaration of martial law. North Korea guaranteed last year … It said it had “proved” that South Korean drones dropped propaganda over the city, but the South Korean military has not confirmed that.
Prosecutors launched an investigation this year to determine whether the drone transmissions were an illegal attempt to provoke North Korea and use its response as a pretext to declare martial law. prosecutor Park Ji Young On Monday, he told reporters that Yoon and his allies “conspired to create a situation that would impose emergency martial law and increase the risk of inter-Korean armed conflict,” and charged the former president with “providing benefits to the enemy and abuse of power.”
President Park pointed to evidence found in a memo written in October by Yun’s former counterintelligence commander, in which he advocated “creating an unstable situation or taking advantage of opportunities that arise.”
Seoul and North Korea have technically been at war since the 1950-1953 armed conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
Yoon sparked a political crisis in South Korea by declaring martial law in December last year and sending soldiers to parliament to prevent lawmakers from voting to overturn martial law. Their efforts were unsuccessful, and Yun was detained in January. In April he was sacked and his rival Lee Jae Myung He became president after the general election in June. Yun has also been charged with rioting and other crimes related to the unilateral declaration of martial law.
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