South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for Yoon Suk Yeol in the first case to reach the highest court from the several criminal trials related to the former leader’s brief imposition of martial law in 2024.
The court upheld an April ruling by the Seoul High Court that found Yoon guilty of infringing on cabinet members’ right to deliberate before he declared martial law, falsifying the official proclamation to cover up the lapse before destroying the document, and deploying presidential security forces to resist law enforcement efforts to arrest him weeks after his impeachment.
