Prosecutors claim that the drones were sent over the dictatorship in the north with the aim of increasing tensions between the countries. This was to justify his declaration of martial law in December last year.
Yoon shocked South Korea with the martial law, which he claimed would protect the country from “communist forces.” He was ousted in early April when South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled in an impeachment trial that the declaration did not meet the legal requirements for a national emergency.
Yoon is charged with several crimes in connection with the incident and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison or even the death penalty.
