SEOUL, April 24 (UPI) -- South Korean prosecutors on Friday sought a 30-year prison sentence for jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol, alleging he ordered military drones to infiltrate North Korea in a bid to provoke tensions ahead of his short-lived martial law declaration in 2024.
A special counsel team led by Cho Eun-suk said Yoon and senior defense officials orchestrated the drone incursions through military command channels to trigger a North Korean response and create a security crisis as justification for emergency rule.
The team charged Yoon, former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and former Defense Counterintelligence Command chief Yeo In-hyung with offenses including aiding an enemy state and abuse of power.
In a statement reported by Yonhap News Agency, the special prosecutor's office said Yoon "attempted to create a wartime situation on the Korean Peninsula for the purpose of establishing the conditions for declaring a state of emergency."
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