6 minutes agoSouth Korea bans two incumbents from travel abroad
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(a year ago)South Korean authorities have imposed travel bans on two former prime ministers in office, as part of an investigation into the alleged uprising related to former Freedom Yoon Suk-yeol's offer of deployment of military law last year, according to local reports. Police detained former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and former Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok of [...]
Police stopped former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and former Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok from travelling abroad in mid-May, while they were being investigated as suspects in the case of the uprising, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.
Yoon, who served as president for three years, declared the state of emergency military in December 2024, claiming that antistate and North Korean forces had infiltrated the government, deploying troops on the streets of the capital.
The statement was revoted hours later by parliament, bringing South Korea into an unprecedented constitutional crisis involving both Han and Choi serving as incumbent presidents.
Former incumbent presidents were questioned Monday by a special police unit over the role they had played in Yoon's short-lived war law.
Since his dismissal, there have been questions about whether they had resisted the measure, as they claimed. /Periscope/
