⚖️ South Korea's Constitutional Court held its fifth impeachment hearing for President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday, with the embattled leader personally attending for the third time amid explosive allegations of abuse of power during a December martial law declaration.
📹 Dramatic TV footage from December 3 showed military helicopters landing at the National Assembly and armed troops storming the building – a scene one lawmaker compared to \"a Netflix political thriller.\" Yoon denies ordering soldiers to forcibly remove lawmakers who revoked his emergency decree hours later.
🔥 \"Nothing really happened that night,\" the president told judges, claiming he only intended to \"appeal to the people\" through the martial law declaration. However, prosecutors allege phone records show Yoon instructed commanders to break into parliament using \"guns\" and \"axes\" – accusations he calls \"political fiction.\"
🔒 Key witness Lee Jin-woo, former head of the Capital Defense Command, refused to testify about his alleged role, citing an ongoing criminal case. The hearing comes as public trust in Yoon's administration hits record lows, with student protesters outside chanting \"Democracy over dictatorship!\"
📜 Constitutional experts note that while South Korean presidents can declare martial law, only the National Assembly can repeal it – setting up a constitutional showdown that could determine Yoon's political future.
