 "Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. File image/AP")
A South Korean special prosecutor on Monday indicted former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of aiding the enemy state related to his efforts to declare a martial law and ordering drone flights over North Korea. A special investigation was ordered this year to identify whether Yoon ordered drone flights over North Korea.
Prosecutor Park Ji-young told reporters that a special counsel team had indicted charges for aiding the enemy and abusing power.
Yoon and others “conspired to create conditions that would allow the declaration of emergency martial law, thereby increasing the risk of inter-Korean armed confrontation and harming public military interests,” Park told AFP.
She further added that the evidence has been found in the memo which was written by Yoon’s former counter-intelligence commander in October last year. This created an unstable situation or seized an arising opportunity.
Yoon was removed from office by the Constitutional Court in April and is on trial for insurrection and other charges stemming from his failed martial law declaration.
Yoon was removed from office by the Constitutional Court in April and voters replaced him with Lee Jae Myung in a general election.
Yoon remains on trial for insurrection and if found guilty could be sentenced to death.