Yoon Suk Yeol, former South Korean president has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a court found that he ordered a covert drone operation into North Korea in an attempt to trigger a confrontation with Pyongyang and create a justification for his controversial martial law declaration.
According to the BBC, the Seoul District Court ruled on Friday that Yoon deliberately used a military operation to raise tensions with North Korea as part of a broader effort to manufacture a national security crisis.
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“The defendants used the guise of a military operation to induce provocations from North Korea with the aim of creating a state of emergency,” the court said in its ruling.
Judges said the operation significantly increased the risk of a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula and concluded that Yoon carried the greatest responsibility for the incident.
