Feb. 19 (Asia Today) -- South Korea's political parties offered sharply different reactions Thursday after former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison in a first-instance ruling on charges of leading an insurrection.
The Democratic Party said the verdict was "inadequate," arguing that imposing life imprisonment rather than the death penalty undermined judicial justice.
Party leader Chung Cheong-rae said at an emergency leadership meeting at the National Assembly that life imprisonment represents the minimum penalty for a leader of insurrection.
"The judiciary has shaken judicial justice by sentencing the mastermind of an insurrection that shook the nation's foundations to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty," Chung said, calling the ruling "very inadequate."
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