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President Yoon Suk Yeol made his second look on the Constitutional Court docket to attend his ongoing impeachment trial on Thursday.
Yoon arrived on the court docket simply earlier than 1 p.m. and instantly entered the constructing through an underground parking zone, once more avoiding reporters ready outdoors.
Throughout the listening to, former protection minister Kim Yong-hyun, who headed the ministry on the time of the December 3 martial legislation incident, took the stand.
Kim was arrested final month for his position within the martial legislation affair.
Kim testified that Yoon ordered a “restricted quantity” of troops to participate within the operation on December 3, inflicting him to query whether or not martial legislation would succeed.
Yoon’s authorized staff, which selected Kim to seem as a witness within the trial, questioned him first.
Yoon has beforehand said that Kim was behind the primary clause of the martial legislation decree, which banned all political actions, together with on the Nationwide Meeting, in violation of the Structure.
On Tuesday, Yoon instructed the court docket that he by no means gave orders for troops to take away lawmakers from the Nationwide Meeting when he imposed martial legislation and he additionally mentioned Kim was behind a memo that was given to finance minister Choi Sang-mok, ordering Choi to attract up a price range for the operation of an emergency legislative physique.
