South Korean justice uncompromisingly punished other illegal actions of the former head of state. A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former president Jun Sok-yol to 30 years in prison for ordering South Korean military drone flights over North Korean territory in October 2024.
A South Korean court sentenced former president Jun Sok-yol to 30 years in prison on Friday for ordering drone flights over North Korean territory, a court in Seoul confirmed. TASR informs about it according to the reports of the agencies Jonhap and AFP.
- A South Korean court sentenced ex-president Jun Sok-yol to 30 years in prison.
- The verdict is related to the order of South Korean drone flights over North Korea.
- The aim of the operation was to provoke military tension and subsequent martial law.
- Jun Sok-yol had previously received a life sentence for attempting a coup d’état.
According to the indictment, the ex-president of South Korea wanted to create a pretext for the later declaration of martial law in the country by provoking military tension.
Jun Sok-jol has already been sentenced to life in prison
The conviction in the drone case follows a verdict in February, when Jun Sok-yol was sentenced in a separate trial to life in prison for an attempted coup in December 2024, when he unsuccessfully tried to impose martial law in the country.
According to a special investigation team, Jun Sok-yol sent South Korean drones over North Korea in October 2024 with the aim of provoking Pyongyang and artificially inducing a state of war on the Korean Peninsula, seriously endangering national security and violating the country’s constitutional order, Jonhap quotes.
