Yonhap News agency is reporting that ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for treason. The sentence comes on top of an earlier life sentence for insurrection. A Seoul court found that Yoon ordered the military to deploy drones over North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, in October 2024 and that the move was intended to create a national security crisis and justify his failed attempt to declare martial law later that year. Yoon’s actions were widely condemned as an attempted coup and led to his removal from power and arrest.
