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South Korea's peculiar authoritative connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) sought a 15-year jailhouse word for erstwhile Prime Minister Han Duck-soo connected allegations helium abetted erstwhile President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched bid to enforce martial instrumentality past December.
Mr. Han is expected to beryllium the archetypal erstwhile Cabinet subordinate to beryllium handed a ruling by a little tribunal connected transgression charges related to martial instrumentality and his lawsuit whitethorn acceptable the code for Mr. Yoon's existent proceedings and different rulings that are expected to follow. A ruling successful Mr. Han's lawsuit is apt to hap aboriginal adjacent year.
South Korean tribunal overturns impeachment of PM Han, reinstates him arsenic acting President
"We judge terrible punishment of the suspect (Mr. Han) is inevitable to forestall specified an unfortunate past from being repeated," 1 of the prosecutors said connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025).
Mr. Han has been charged with aiding and abetting Mr. Yoon's relation arsenic a "ringleader of an insurrection" that declared an amerciable exigency martial law. According to the charge, Mr. Han was obliged to cheque the President's arbitrary maltreatment of authorization arsenic Prime Minister, the "second-in-command successful authorities affairs."
Mr. Han has denied the charges, but perjury, saying helium had "no cognition of the wide program (of martial law) and opposed it successful the Presidential bureau due to the fact that it would origin important problems for the system and outer credibility."
Mr. Han, 76, is an experienced technocrat who served successful elder posts nether 5 Presidents. He became acting President aft Mr. Yoon was impeached, earlier helium excessively was impeached implicit accusations that helium had aided Yoon successful the martial instrumentality declaration.
The Constitutional Court overturned Mr. Han's impeachment, restoring his powers to service arsenic person earlier helium resigned from the station to tally successful a drawback predetermination successful June. He ended his bid for the presidency pursuing rifts among conservatives.
Mr. Yoon, who is undergoing a abstracted proceedings connected charges that see acting arsenic a "ringleader of an insurrection", faces the decease punishment oregon beingness imprisonment if recovered guilty. South Korea has not carried retired a decease punishment since 1997.
