'Long-term plan for dictatorship unlikely': Why court rejected key notes in Yoon ruling

Legal experts reacted with surprise to parts of Thursday's verdict on former President Yoon Suk Yeol, which that rejected key pieces of evidence and cited the lack of planning and limited use of force as reasons for refusing the death penalty. Presiding Judge Ji Gwi-yeon found Yoon of guilty of leading an insurrection but denied the prosecution's claim that he planned to establish a long-term dictatorship. He said Yoon declared martial law on Dec. 3, 2024, because of an obsessive belief that the

By The Korea Herald