SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has not reported on last week’s martial law declaration in South Korea or its fallout in the following week through Tuesday, including the opposition’s push to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol. North Korea’s key news media, including the Rodong Sinmun and the Korean Central News Agency, have [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law has cast doubt on South Korea’s anticipated 9 trillion won export deal with Poland for additional K2 Black Panther tanks. As the December 3 martial law crisis continues to impede the president’s ability to perform his duties normally, concerns are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun issued an order to prevent 150 lawmakers from gathering at the National Assembly on the night of last week’s martial law declaration, a military commander said Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-keun, chief of the Army Special Warfare Command, claimed at a parliamentary session that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly is set to open a plenary session Tuesday to vote on a bill mandating a permanent special counsel to investigate treason charges against President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed bid to impose martial law last week. The bill calls for an investigation into Yoon, former [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Cho Ji-ho, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, and two other top police officials have been banned from leaving the country in connection with the ongoing police investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law last week, the National Office of Investigation (NOI) said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court is set to decide Tuesday whether to issue an arrest warrant for former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun on treason charges related to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration in what would be the first court judgment on the case. Kim is suspected of having colluded [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of the military’s Defense Intelligence Command has been suspended from his duty Tuesday, the defense ministry said, the latest in a spate of suspensions of military commanders in the aftermath of a botched martial law declaration. “The defense ministry has transferred Army Maj. Gen. Moon Sang-ho, chief [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The leader of the main opposition party said Tuesday his party would pass the downsized budget bill for next year through a plenary session later in the day, adding that passage of the budget bill could help ease political uncertainties triggered by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched martial law [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — New installations of global messaging app Telegram have spiked in South Korea, data showed Tuesday, as concerns brewed over possible media censorship following the martial law fiasco. The number of new Telegram installations came to 40,576 cases last Tuesday, according to data compiled by industry tracker IGAWorks, the day President [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors on Tuesday called in the chief of the military’s counterintelligence command to question him over his role in the botched martial law declaration last week, officials said. The special investigation team handling the martial law case brought Yeo In-hyung, the commander of the Defense Counterintelligence Command (DCC), to [...]