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South Korea's former President Yoon Suk-yeol. (File photo)

Seoul: North Korea “Staggered” at Draconian Nature of US Justice Enforced in ROK! (20.2.2026)

Yoon became the country’s third former president to stand trial on insurrection charges, following former Presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, who were convicted for military coup and brutal crackdown under martial law.

The Seoul court merged three trials in December last year for eight suspects, including Yoon and seven other senior military and police officials, charged with performing critical duties in the insurrection.

The court handed former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun a 30-year prison sentence, convicting him of performing a significant role in the insurrection.

The special counsel team sought life imprisonment for Kim, whom it called a mastermind who planned and led the insurrection alongside Yoon by mobilizing the military.

Former Defense Intelligence Commander Noh Sang-won and former National Police Agency Commissioner Cho Ji-ho received prison terms of 18 and 12 years, respectively, for their key roles in the insurrection.

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Will Trump’s “Insurrection Dysfunction” Adversely Effect His Re-Erection Campaign? (21.12.2023)

Republicans accused Democrats of using the Colorado court as a political weapon at a time when U.S. President Joe Biden’s polling stood at a low point.

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential race has been dominated by Trump, who is only bolstered among his voting base by the four criminal indictments he faces, prompting several other candidates to drop out of the race.

Some maintained that Colorado’s court ruling could galvanize those who disagree with the court’s actions.

“That appears to be happening already. Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination are falling in line behind him and condemning the decision, and it plays right into Trump’s depiction of himself as a victim of sinister forces,” Galdieri said.

Even his main rivals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, suggested that the ruling was an abuse of judicial power.

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The Revolutionary John Brown (1800-1859)

He was a revolutionary who raised a small but determined force of liberal white people and enslaved and free black people. He procured a large amount of arms in 1859 with the intention of setting large numbers of enslaved Africans free. Unfortunately the slaves did not rise-up and Brown and his small group was left to fight the US Army and the angry town’s people on its own.

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