
This composite picture reveals Lee Jin-woo, left, former head of the Capital Protection Command, Yeo In-hyung, middle, former head of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, and Hong Jang-won, former first deputy director of Korea’s Nationwide Intelligence Service. Yonhap
Two former navy commanders and a former spy company official are set to testify as witnesses throughout President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial Tuesday.
Lee Jin-woo, former head of the Capital Protection Command; Yeo In-hyung, former head of the Protection Counterintelligence Command; and Hong Jang-won, former first deputy director of the Nationwide Intelligence Service, have been referred to as to testify on the trial’s fifth formal listening to on the Constitutional Courtroom at 2 p.m.
The three had been referred to as as witnesses by the Nationwide Meeting’s authorized workforce, which is appearing because the prosecutor within the case on whether or not to uphold or reject the Meeting’s impeachment of Yoon over his short-lived Dec. 3 imposition of martial regulation.
The Nationwide Meeting’s workforce is predicted to query the witnesses first earlier than Yoon’s authorized protection workforce asks inquiries to confirm their claims.
The courtroom’s justices will then query the witnesses as nicely.
Whereas underneath arrest, Lee and Yeo have been indicted on expenses of taking part in a key function in an rebel.
Lee reportedly informed prosecutors Yoon ordered him on the day that martial regulation was imposed to instruct troops to hold out lawmakers from contained in the Nationwide Meeting constructing, „firing weapons and breaking down doorways“ if mandatory.
Yeo allegedly obtained orders from then Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun to arrest and detain opposition chief Lee Jae-myung after which ruling celebration chief Han Dong-hoon, amongst others.
Hong, in the meantime, has informed lawmakers he obtained a telephone name from Yoon instructing him to „spherical them up and do away with them.“
Yoon has defended his actions as a „warning“ to the opposition celebration whereas denying giving orders to arrest politicians. (Yonhap)