(23 Jan 2025)
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Seoul, South Korea – 23 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Convoy carrying South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol leaving court
2. Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun standing before journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yoon Kab-keun, lawyer representing impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol:
"This time’s martial law is different from past martial laws. The president declared martial law as part of an effort to appeal to the people regarding the major opposition party’s reckless impeachment (of key officials appointed by Yoon), budget cuts, various anti-state actions, and acts that severely hinder national interests. The goal (of Yoon’s declaration of martial law) was to awaken the public, correct state affairs and restore constitutional order. Therefore, the president considered the Martial Law Proclamation as a mere formality and did not think deeply about it."
4. Wide of Yoon speaking to journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yoon Kab-keun, lawyer representing impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol:
"Regarding the deployment of martial law forces into the National Assembly, we view it as a lawful troop movement following the declaration of martial law. There are claims that orders were given to drag out or arrest individuals from the parliament, but no such evidence can be found anywhere. You have all seen the footage (of Dec. 3). Did the soldiers attempt to drag out or arrest anyone? There was no such action at all. I simply understood it as peaceful martial law forces being deployed according to orders, and since their destination was the National Assembly, they were stationed there."
6. Yoon leaving
STORYLINE:
A lawyer representing South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Seok Yeol again defended his declaration of martial law last month, as his client left a hearing at a Seoul courthouse on Thursday.
Yoon Kab-keun cast the Dec. 3 martial law decree as "as part of an effort to appeal to the people."
"The goal was to awaken the public, correct state affairs and restore constitutional order," he said.
President Yoon also defended his actions again as he appeared at the Constitutional Court on Thursday, saying the move was only meant to inform the public of the danger of an opposition-controlled National Assembly.
He argued that the martial law imposition ended early because he quickly withdrew troops after the assembly voted down his decree.
In his first appearance at the hearing on Tuesday, Yoon denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting.
South Korean investigators have asked prosecutors to indict the country’s detained president over his short-lived imposition of martial law, accusing him of rebellion, abuse of power and obstruction of parliament.
Yoon was impeached and suspended by the assembly on Dec. 14.
The Constitutional Court is now deliberating to determine whether to formally throw Yoon out of office or reinstate him.
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