30 More Years for Yoon Suk Yeol: The Drone Prank Gone Wrong
It turns out that trying to trigger a war just to declare martial law is a career-limiting move for a South Korean president.
The court in Seoul just tacked another 30 years onto Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence. Apparently, ordering a secret drone strike on your own neighbor to create an excuse for martial law is considered a bit of a faux pas by the justice system.
It wasn't just a solo mission; his former defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun, got the same 30-year ticket. It seems the whole strategy was to poke the bear in Pyongyang just enough to scare the public into accepting an iron fist. Instead, the only thing they managed to stir up was a massive prison sentence.
It is wild to think that in 2024, someone actually thought that staging a cross-border provocation would be a smooth path to absolute power. Now, the former leader has plenty of time to contemplate the risks of playing war games while locked in a cell.
Source: Yonhap
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