SEOUL:
South Korea’s suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol authorised the army to fireplace their weapons if wanted to enter parliament throughout his failed bid to impose martial regulation, based on a prosecutors’ report seen by AFP on Saturday.
The ten-page abstract from former defence minister Kim Yong-hyun’s prosecution indictment report, which was offered to the media, additionally says Yoon vowed on December 3 to declare martial regulation thrice if essential.
Yoon, who was stripped of his duties by the Nationwide Meeting this month, is below investigation for his short-lived try to scrap civilian rule, which plunged the nation into political turmoil and led to his impeachment.
Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun dismissed the prosecutors’ report, telling AFP it was “a one-sided account that neither corresponds to goal circumstances nor widespread sense”.
As lawmakers rushed to parliament on December 3 to vote down Yoon’s martial regulation declaration, closely armed troops stormed the constructing, scaling fences, smashing home windows and touchdown by helicopter.
In keeping with the prosecution indictment report, Yoon instructed the chief of the capital defence command, Lee Jin-woo, that army forces may shoot if essential to enter the Nationwide Meeting.
“Have you ever nonetheless not bought in? What are you doing? Break down the door and drag them out, even when it means taking pictures,” Yoon instructed Lee, based on the report.
Yoon additionally allegedly instructed the pinnacle of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, Normal Kwak Jong-keun, to “rapidly get inside” the Nationwide Meeting because the quorum for the martial regulation declaration to be lifted had not been met.