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South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering troops to ‘drag out’ lawmakers

Impeached president appears in constitutional court following last month’s short-lived martial law order

South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has denied ordering troops to “drag out” lawmakers from the country’s parliament to prevent them from overturning his short-lived declaration of martial law last month.

In his first appearance at the constitutional court, which will decide whether to uphold his impeachment, Yoon replied “no” when asked by a judge whether he had ordered the military to remove lawmakers from the national assembly building.

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