Special counsel indicts ex-President Yoon over messages justifying martial law

A special counsel team indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday on charges of instructing officials to justify his failed martial law bid to the United States and other major partner nations. Special counsel Kwon Chang-young's team said it charged Yoon with abuse of power in its first indictment against the jailed former president. With the new indictment, Yoon is standing a total of eight trials in connection with his imposition of martial law in December 2024, his wife's alleged co