Former Minister Kim Yong-hyun and military generals are on trialPolice, Airborne, and Prosecutors Point to President Yoon's 'Peak of Insurrection'
President Yoon Suk Yeol was the first incumbent president to be arrested by an investigative agency and questioned.
The process from President Yoon's declaration of emergency martial law to the arrest of the Joint Investigation Headquarters,
Reporter Lee Seung-bae organized
.
[Reporter]
At 10:23 p.m. on December 3 last year, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of emergency by surprise.
[Yoon Suk Yeol / President: Declares emergency martial law to eradicate pro-North Korean anti-state forces at once and protect the free constitutional order]
Martial law forces were deployed to the National Assembly and the Election Commission to fight anti-state forces, but
As the
National Assembly voted on a martial law resolution, martial law for the first time in 45 years ended in two hours.
[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: Of the 190 present, 190 are in favor, and I declare that the resolution to lift the emergency martial law has been passed]
Former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who proposed martial law, was the first to be arrested and charged, and military generals who followed the order were also put on trial one after another.
[Roh Sang-won / Former Intelligence Commander: (Who did you say to kill in your notebook?)]." "(Who did you consult with?) ...." "(How did you try to induce North Korea to attack the NLL?)." "(Did you communicate directly with President Yoon, the emergency martial law?) ....]
The investigation took off as the police, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, and the prosecution pointed to President Yoon as the "peak of rebellion."
However, President Yoon refused to comply with the request for attendance by raising the issue of a duplicate investigation, and countered that the arrest warrant issued by the court was invalid.
In the end, the first arrest warrant execution by the Joint Investigation Headquarters was canceled in half a day.
In the second arrest warrant execution in 12 days, the Joint Investigation Headquarters passed the first cordon of the official residence without resistance or armed conflict from the security office,
It became the first case in constitutional history to arrest the current president
.
I'm YTN's Lee Seungbae.
Video editing;Kim Hee-jung
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