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South Korea’s peculiar authoritative connected Monday (November 10, 2025) indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol connected further charges of abusing powerfulness and aiding an force authorities related to his short-lived imposition of martial instrumentality past year.
Yoon attempted to provoke subject struggle betwixt South and North Korea successful bid to state martial law, a prosecutor’s spokesperson told a briefing, citing grounds recovered connected a subject official’s mobile telephone that included immoderate words suggesting imaginable provocations against North Korea, specified arsenic “drones” and “surgical strike”.
According to the memo, Yoon, erstwhile Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun and erstwhile subject quality main Yeo In-hyung planned to induce a North Korean onslaught against the South, the spokesperson said.
The trio wanted to make tensions successful the state arsenic a information for Yoon to state martial law, she said.
Kim and Yeo were besides indicted connected the aforesaid further charges, the authoritative said.
The peculiar prosecutor’s squad has accused Yoon and his subject commanders of ordering a covert drone cognition into the North to inflame tensions betwixt the neighbours and warrant his martial instrumentality decree.
In October past year, North Korea said the South had sent drones to scatter anti-North Korean leaflets implicit Pyongyang, and published photos of the remains of a crashed South Korean subject drone.
South Korea astatine the clip declined to disclose whether it had sent the drones.
Yoon and Kim denied they declared martial instrumentality to harm South Korea’s nationalist interests. Yeo said helium profoundly regretted not challenging the bid from Yoon, according to media reports. The prosecutor’s spokesperson said Yeo was making excuses that did not marque consciousness astir the notes discovered connected his mobile phone.
