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Yonhap News agency is reporting that ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for treason. The sentence comes on top of an earlier life sentence for insurrection. A Seoul court found that Yoon ordered the military to deploy drones over North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, in October 2024 and that the move was intended to create a national security crisis and justify his failed attempt to declare martial law later that year. Yoon’s actions were widely condemned as an attempted coup and led to his removal from power and arrest.

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00:00Ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has reportedly been handed a 30-year sentence
00:05on top of an earlier life sentence.
00:08South Korea's Yonghap News Agency is reporting that a Seoul court arrived at the verdict
00:12on Friday.
00:13It found that Yoon ordered the military to deploy drones over North Korea's capital
00:17Pyongyang in October of 2024.
00:20It said that this created a pretext for its failed attempt to declare martial law later
00:24that year.
00:24The declaration is widely viewed as an attempted coup and resulted in his removal from power
00:29and his later arrest.
00:31Yoon is already serving life in prison for insurrection.
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