Ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol Receives 30-Year Prison Sentence in Pyongyang Drone Plot Case
A Seoul court handed ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol a 30-year prison term on charges of abuse of power and aiding the enemy, tied to a 2024 Pyongyang drone incursion that prosecutors say was meant to justify his failed martial-law bid; his lawyers contend he neither ordered nor approved the operation. Yoon, already serving a life sentence for insurrection after impeachment, can appeal the ruling as prosecutors push back against the former leader’s legal battles.