Investigators have alleged that Yoon's martial-law decree amounted to rebellion. If is convicted of that offense, he would ...

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing of his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in ...

His martial law lasted only six hours ... the meal for them himself at his hilltop residence overlooking South Korea's capital, where hours earlier they had watched columns of troops marching ...

In a shocking turn of events, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law late at night, citing threats to ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 stunned Japanese who were watching the events in Seoul unfold on their screens. But it also got them thinking.

South Korea’s impeached president defended his martial law decree as a desperate bid to promote public awareness of the danger of the opposition-controlled parliament, and vowed to push for political ...

By law, a president in South Korea has the power to put the country under martial law in wartime and similar emergency situations, but many experts say South Korea wasn’t in such a state when ...

South Korea teetered on the edge of a far worse crackdown than the infamous Gwangju Uprising massacre. As the country ...

It is punishable by life imprisonment or death, although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades. The indictment alleges that Yoon’s imposition of martial law was an illegal attempt to ...