00:00The first hearing of former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's criminal trial is underway
00:05in Seoul.
00:07Yoon faces charges that his declaration of martial law last December amounted to an insurrection.
00:12That's punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty, though South Korea has
00:16not executed anyone in decades.
00:19Yoon has denied all charges.
00:21South Korea's Constitutional Court removed Yoon from office earlier this month.
00:25They ruled that his actions were a serious violation of his powers and a threat to democracy.
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