A Seoul court docket sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life in jail Thursday for main an rebellion in December 2024, when, as president, he declared martial legislation and tried to make use of army troops to grab management of the Nationwide Meeting. Yoon additionally ordered troops to arrest his political enemies, the court docket discovered.
Whereas the sentence is a victory for South Korea’s democracy, the nation stays deeply polarized. As we wrote in April after South Korea’s constitutional court docket upheld his impeachment, “the broader dysfunctions plaguing South Korea’s political panorama that ostensibly led to Yoon’s declaration within the first place very a lot stay in place.”
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