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His lawyers said he neither ordered nor later approved the operation, which they said was unrelated to martial law and instead a response to months of North Korean launches across the border of balloons stuffed with rubbish.<br \/>Prosecutors had sought a 30-year prison term for Yoon in April.<br \/>The ruling adds to a series of judgements against the ousted conservative leader, once South Korea&#8217;s top prosecutor, whose martial law order plunged Asia&#8217;s fourth-largest economy into its deepest political turmoil in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to military drones sent over Pyongyang to help create a pretext for his failed December 2024 martial law declaration, Yonhap reported.The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon guilty of abuse of power and aiding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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