Overview
- The special counsel brought new counts of aiding the enemy and abuse of power against Yoon Suk Yeol, while former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun and former counterintelligence chief Yeo In-hyung were indicted on the same charges.
- Kim Yong-dae, head of the Drone Operations Command, was indicted without detention on obstruction of official duties and instigating false official documents.
- Investigators cited handwritten notes recovered from Yeo’s phone that called for creating instability and referenced drones and targets such as Pyongyang as evidence of intent.
- Prosecutors said a South Korean drone crashed near Pyongyang in October 2024 and leaked classified information, underpinning the “benefiting the enemy” charge.
- The government proposed an internal task force to examine officials’ administrative culpability, and the special counsel renewed an arrest-warrant request for ex-justice minister Park Sung-jae.