{"id":75952,"date":"2026-01-14T01:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/13\/south-korean-prosecutors-demand-death-penalty-for-former-president-yoon-suk-yeol"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:43:58","slug":"south-korean-prosecutors-demand-death-penalty-for-former-president-yoon-suk-yeol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75952","title":{"rendered":"South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon is on trial for insurrection charges, after trying to declare martial law in late 2024<\/p>\n<p>South Korean prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">failed martial law declaration<\/a> in December 2024, in the first insurrection trial of a Korean head of state in three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors characterised the case as the \u201cserious destruction of constitutional order by anti-state forces\u201d, telling Seoul central district court that Yoon had \u201cdirectly and fundamentally infringed upon the safety of the state and the survival and freedom of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/13\/south-korean-prosecutors-demand-death-penalty-for-former-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon is on trial for insurrection charges, after trying to declare martial law in late 2024South Korean prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, in the firs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75962,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75952\/revisions\/75962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}