Overview
- South Korea’s special prosecutor filed additional charges on Monday tied to Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law declaration last year.
- Investigators say a military official’s phone notes and an internal memo indicate Yoon, Kim Yong-hyun and Yeo In-hyung sought to induce a North Korean attack.
- Prosecutors allege the trio ordered a covert drone incursion to inflame tensions, and North Korea last October displayed drone wreckage and claimed leaflet drops that Seoul declined to confirm.
- Kim and Yeo were indicted on the same counts, and a drone operations commander was charged with obstructing official duties and soliciting false documents.
- Yoon and Kim deny acting to harm national interests, and prosecutors highlight phone entries referencing terms such as “drones” and “surgical strike.”