Yoon beruft Verteidigungsminister und Direktor des Nationalen Geheimdienstes vor den Parlamentswahlen ein und sagt: „Bald Kriegsrecht“

• In late March, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol reportedly expressed a strong intention to implement martial law during a dinner at the presidential residence in Samcheong-dong, Seoul.

• Attendees included Shin Won-sik (then Minister of National Defense, now National Security Advisor), Cho Tae-yong (Director of the National Intelligence Service), Kim Yong-hyun (then Chief of the Presidential Security Service), and several military officials.

• President Yoon expressed anger over the political situation and stated his intent to implement martial law soon; attendees reportedly advised against it.

• Similar discussions allegedly occurred in December of the previous year at the official residence in Hannam-dong, with key security officials present.

• Cho Tae-yong denied that any discussions of martial law took place, stating through the National Intelligence Service that he attended meetings of an encouraging nature.

• The Special Investigation Headquarters for Emergency Martial Law of the Prosecutors’ Office recently questioned Cho regarding these allegations.