{"id":76042,"date":"2026-01-21T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/21\/former-south-korea-pm-han-duck-soo-jailed-martial-law-insurrection"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:13:31","slug":"former-south-korean-pm-jailed-for-23-years-for-role-in-martial-law-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76042","title":{"rendered":"Former South Korean PM jailed for 23 years for role in martial law insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Han Duck-soo verdict marks first judicial ruling stemming from ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s 2024 martial law decree<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s former prime minister Han Duck-soo has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in an insurrection stemming from the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-korean-president-declares-emergency-martial-law\">Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s failed martial law declaration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Lee Jin-kwan, ordered Han\u2019s immediate detention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/21\/former-south-korea-pm-han-duck-soo-jailed-martial-law-insurrection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Han Duck-soo verdict marks first judicial ruling stemming from ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s 2024 martial law decreeSouth Korea\u2019s former prime minister Han Duck-soo has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in an insurrection stemming from t&#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-76042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042","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=76042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042\/revisions\/76043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}