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

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Friday ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from jail, a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) designation of South Korea as a “sensitive country” has ignited domestic controversy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Korea continues to reel after the US government officially confirmed that it had added South Korea to its list of “sensitive countries” that are subject to potential restrictions on cooperation in ...