National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik watches the live broadcast of the first-trial verdict for former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who is charged as the ringleader of an insurrection related to the December 3 martial law, in his office at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 19th. /Courtesy of News1

The Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 25 (Presiding Judge Jee Kui-youn) opened the first-trial sentencing hearing at 3 p.m. on the 19th for former President Yoon Suk-yeol on the charge of being the leader of insurrection.

The court found that the crime of insurrection with the purpose of undermining the constitutional order can also apply to a president.

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