A former South Korean defence minister charged with insurrection for his role in trying to enforce martial law defended his ...

Investigators have alleged that Yoon's martial-law decree amounted to rebellion. If is convicted of that offense, he would ...

His martial law lasted only six hours ... the meal for them himself at his hilltop residence overlooking South Korea's capital, where hours earlier they had watched columns of troops marching ...

However, South Korea law allows prosecutors to hold a suspect temporarily while they pursue an appeal. Investigators have alleged that the martial-law decree amounted to rebellion. If he’s ...

Months after South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law in early December 2024, the country is still rocked by the aftershocks of political turmoil and intensifying ...

By law, a president in South Korea has the power to put the country under martial law in wartime and similar emergency situations, but many experts say South Korea wasn’t in such a state when ...

The designation seems certain to be damaging both to the South Korea-US alliance and to South Korea’s standing ...

It is punishable by life imprisonment or death, although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades. The indictment alleges that Yoon’s imposition of martial law was an illegal attempt to ...