{"id":20738,"date":"2025-01-26T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/s-korean-president-indicted-after-martial-law-declaration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T13:21:39","slug":"s-korean-president-indicted-after-martial-law-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/s-korean-president-indicted-after-martial-law-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"S Korean president indicted after martial law declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5348933.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>&#8220;The prosecution has decided to indict Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing charges of being a ringleader of insurrection,&#8221; Democratic Party spokesman Han Min-soo told a press conference, Reuters reported. &#8220;The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yoon had declared martial law in a televised speech on Dec. 3, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The president said the measure was necessary due to the actions of the country&#8217;s liberal opposition, the Democratic Party, which he accused of controlling parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government. A South Korean court issued an arrest and search warrant on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment follows Yoon\u2019s arrest ten days ago, when South Korean prosecutors finally succeeded in forcing him to surrender at his residence after a prolonged stand-off\u00a0with his presidential bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227466\/S-Korean-president-indicted-after-martial-law-declaration\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The prosecution has decided to indict Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing charges of being a ringleader of insurrection,&#8221; Democratic Party spokesman Han Min-soo told a press conference, Reuters reported. &#8220;The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally.&#8221; Yoon had declared martial law in a televised speech on Dec. 3, ABC News reported. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}