ISTANBUL


South Korea imposed a foreign travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday, amid the ongoing political crisis caused by his failed attempt at martial law.


The country’s Ministry of Justice imposed the ban on Yoon.


This is the first ban imposed on a sitting president.


The travel ban request was filed by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials.


Yoon is under investigation for alleged treason, rebellion, mutiny and abuse of power after the majority of lawmakers rejected his declaration of martial law on the night of December 3.


However, he survived an impeachment motion over this move, after 190 lawmakers voted to reject the imposition of martial law.


At least 280 soldiers were sent to parliament to stop lawmakers from sitting against martial law, but they failed.


A police official told a news conference in Seoul that authorities are considering all options, including questioning the president and even the possibility of his arrest.


Police have identified at least 11 people for the investigation and a travel ban has been imposed on former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, former Counterintelligence Command commander Lt. Gen. Yeo In-hyung, and Army Chief of Staff General Park An-su, who was appointed martial law commander during the short-lived martial law.


Defense chief Kim has since been arrested while at least five military commanders have been suspended as investigations into the failed martial law continue.


South Korea’s ruling People Power Party leader has vowed to minimize the fallout from Yoon’s aborted martial law declaration, saying the embattled president would not be involved in its internal and foreign affairs of the country before he steps down.


Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry emphasized that control of South Korea’s armed forces “currently rests with President Yoon Suk Yeolas, the commander-in-chief.”


Kim Hyun-tae, the commander of the South Korean military’s 707th Special Missions Group, told lawmakers on Monday: “I was the one who ordered the soldiers to go to the National Assembly (parliament) and smash the windows to come in.”


“I am an incompetent and irresponsible commander. I pushed the unit to the edge. … As their commander, I will take responsibility for all the misdeeds of the 707th Soldiers.”


More charges against Yoon and Kim over drone flights to North Korea


As South Korea’s political crisis worsened, a parliamentary committee attended by top Democratic Party (DP) lawmakers on Monday passed a bill to appoint a permanent special counsel to investigate Yoon’s treason charges. to research.


The bill will be put to a vote on Tuesday in parliament, where DP has the majority.


The DP has also filed an additional complaint against President Yoon and former Defense Minister Kim, alleging “general betrayal” in the police.


The opposition has claimed that Kim had “discussed a plan to attack the origin of North Korea’s waste balloons,” which “clearly raises suspicions of general treachery,” the Seoul-based Yonhap News reported.


Pyongyang, which has maintained a deafening silence on proceedings in Seoul, launched hundreds of waste balloons at South Korea, which had launched propaganda loudspeakers along the border at the southern end of the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean Peninsula.​


“This is an act that has the potential to escalate into a war and armed conflict between the South and the North, and is a deliberate attempt to provoke military conflict and create martial law,” the opposition party said.


North Korea also claimed to have shot down an unmanned drone in October, which the South Korean military blamed.


The DP blamed Kim for such an alleged decision, saying, “This is simply treason, an act that harms the military interests of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) or provides military benefits to the enemy.”


Notably, the US-led UN Command in South Korea had found that Seoul’s installation of speakers and broadcasting propaganda against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “encouraged” Pyongyang to launch waste balloons.


The command also accused Seoul of violating the ceasefire on the Korean Peninsula by launching propaganda against Pyongyang from the demilitarized zone.




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