Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul (Credits: AP)
SEOUL: South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol denied on Tuesday that he instructed the military to remove lawmakers from the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month. He made this statement during his first appearance before the Constitutional Court, which will decide his fate.
This marked the impeached president’s first public appearance since becoming South Korea’s first sitting president to be detained following his short-lived declaration of martial law, which sparked political upheaval in…