Sunday, South Korean prosecutors welcomed the accusation president Yoon Suk Yeol in rebellion in the context of his short-term taxation of martial law, according to reports, a criminal accusation which could put him to death or in prison in case of conviction.
It was the last blow to Yoon, who was dismissed and arrested during his decree of the martial law of December 3 which plunged the country into political disorders. Sepreciary of the criminal legal proceedings, the Constitutional Court now deliberates to officially reject Yoon as president or to reintegrate it.
The South Korean media, including the Yonhap news agency, reported that the Prosecutors’ Office of the Central District of Seoul had charged Yoon for the rebellion. Calls to the Office of Prosecutors and Yoon lawyers remained unanswered.
Yoon, a curator, constantly denied any reprehensible act, qualifying his martial law a legitimate act of governance intended to raise awareness of the danger of the National Assembly controlled by Liberal, which obstructed its program and removed the senior officials. During his announcement of martial law, Yoon described the Assembly as “a lair of criminals” and promised to eliminate “the followers of North Korea and anti-state forces”.
After declaring martial law on December 3, Yoon sent troops and police to the Assembly, but enough legislators still managed to enter an assembly chamber to vote unanimously in Yoon’s decree , forcing his cabinet to lift him.
The imposition of martial law, the first of its kind in South Korea in more than 40 years, lasted only six hours. However, he aroused painful memories of the dictatorial rules spent in the 1960s and 80s when the leaders supported by the military used martial laws and emergency decrees to suppress opponents.
The South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol welcomed the authorities in relation to an investigation into the criminal insurgency on Wednesday. He said he was only cooperating with what he called an illegal investigation to avoid violence. It is estimated that 3,000 police officers were deployed in the presidential compound of Yoon and brought shore cutters and ladders.
The constitution of South Korea gives the president the power to declare martial law to maintain order in wartime and other comparable emergency states, but many experts say that the country was not in such conditions when Yoon declared martial law.
Yoon insists that he had no intention of disrupting assembly work, including his ground vote on his decree and that the sending of troops and police forces was supposed to maintain order. But commanders of the military units sent to the Assembly told the hearings of the Assembly or to the investigators that Yoon had ordered them to drag the legislators.
