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Top South Korean Officer Says Was Asked To Help Yoon Martial Law Bid

Yoon Suk Yeol attending his impeachment trial in Seoul (Credit: AFP)

The commander of a crack South Korean special forces unit told a court Thursday he had been asked by a superior officer how to cut electricity to parliament during last year's failed martial law order by impeached president Yook Suk Yeol.

Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who leads the country's elite 707th Special Mission Group, was in charge of troops attempting to stop lawmakers voting down Yoon's shock order.

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