South China Morning Post
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South Korean court sentences ex-president Yoon to 30 years over Pyongyang drone plot
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South Korean court sentences ex-president Yoon to 30 years over Pyongyang drone plot
South Korea’s ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday for sending drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024.
Special prosecutors said back in April that Yoon’s effort to “fabricate wartime conditions” with the drones had undermined state security.
This sentence comes after Yoon was given life in jail in February for leading an insurrection to “paralyse” South Korea’s...
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