Martial law plot was Yoon’s plan all along, South Korean prosecutors say

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Source: scmp.com
Martial law plot was Yoon’s plan all along, South Korean prosecutors say
South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk-yeol began plotting to impose martial law barely a year after taking office, aiming to cling to power by provoking a military confrontation with North Korea, special investigators have found. Announcing the results of a 180-day investigation on Monday, special prosecutor Cho Eun-suk said Yoon and his closest aides had devised a scheme to form a military junta, suspend democratic institutions, seize control of the legislature and judiciary and eliminate all...