Seoul: South Korea’s political landscape was shaken on Monday as a special prosecutor’s office formally indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on additional charges, including abuse of power and aiding an enemy state. The charges relate to his controversial and short-lived attempt to impose martial law last year, a move prosecutors allege was part of a broader scheme to provoke military tensions with North Korea.

The special prosecutor’s team claimed that Yoon, alongside former Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun and former military intelligence chief Yeo In-hyung, orchestrated a plan to incite a North Korean attack. Evidence reportedly emerged from a military official’s mobile phone, including references to “drones” and “surgical strike,” which prosecutors interpreted as potential provocat

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