A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the country’s democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence.
Under South Korean law, the charge of leading an insurrection carries three possible sentences: death, life imprisonment with labour, or life imprisonment without labour.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty, arguing that Yoon committed “a grave destruction of constitutional order” by mobilising troops to surround parliament and attempting to arrest political opponents during the six-hour crisis.
How is the ROK not part of the West if it is a US colony?
Ideology wise I’d consider it as western but not what usually is associated with “The West™” in geographical means.
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This one. The US Empire cut Korea in half, made the government the Koreans were forming for themselves, the PRK, illegal, then placed compradors from the time of Japanese colonialism in power in the new millitary dictatorship they installed. The US millitary retains a permanent presence, slaughtered countless Koreans on both sides of the parallel, and the US Empire treats it as a millitary base. The comprador government used forced prostitution to service the US millitary.
You’re also on Lemmy.ml, don’t be surprised when .ml users are on Lemmy.ml communities.
your world view is captured and shaped by baby raping, sacrificing & eating pedophile oligarchs; only the deranged would see well adjustment informed by this view as a good thing.