00:00Former South Korean President Yoon Sung-yeol has been sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial
00:06law in December 2024 that sought to suppress the opposition.
00:11The Seoul Central District Court said it found the former conservative president guilty of mobilizing military and police forces in
00:19an illegal attempt to seize the liberal-led National Assembly, arrest politicians, and established unchecked power for a considerable time.
00:27Yoon's legal team criticized the ruling, saying that the judge excessively sided with prosecutors' arguments and Yoon is likely to
00:35appeal.
00:36The court also convicted and sentenced several former military and police officials involved in enforcing Yoon's martial law decree, including
00:44former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who received a 30-year jail term for his central role in planning the
00:50measure and mobilizing the military.
00:53Yoon's martial law decree lasted about six hours, before being lifted after lawmakers managed to break through a military and
00:59police blockade and voted to lift the measure.
01:03Yoon was impeached about ten days later and formally removed from office in April 2025.
01:08Although it was brief, Yoon's martial law set off the country's most serious political crisis in decades, paralyzing politics, halting
01:16high-level diplomacy, and rattling financial markets.
01:19The power vacuum was resolved after the election of current President Lee Jae-myung in June last year.
01:26A special prosecutor had requested the death penalty for Yoon, saying that he deserved the harshest punishment for the threat
01:33his actions pose to the country's democracy.
01:36Prosecutors say they haven't decided whether to appeal yet.
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