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Last update: 8 hours agoSouth Korea Court Sentences Yoon Suk Yeol: A Seoul court handed former President Yoon Suk Yeol a fresh 30-year prison term for ordering military drone flights over Pyongyang in October 2024, ruling the mission was meant to provoke North Korea and manufacture a pretext for his short-lived martial law declaration in December 2024. The court also sentenced ex-Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun to 30 years, Defense Counterintelligence chief Yeo In Hyung to 15 years, and Drone Operations commander Kim Yong Dae to a 3-year term suspended for five years. Inter-Korean Tensions: North Korea had accused Seoul of dropping propaganda leaflets during the drone flights; while the incident did not trigger direct clashes, judges said it harmed South Korea’s military interests and increased the risk of conflict. Defense Pushback: Yoon’s lawyers argue the drones were a response to North Korea’s trash-carrying balloon campaign and that the prosecution’s case was speculative, with an appeal expected.
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