The special team of prosecutors has requested an arrest warrant for former South Korean prime minister and acting president Han Duck Soo for his involvement in the failed martial law decree declared late last year by former President Yoon Suk Yeol, which plunged the country into the worst political crisis in its recent history.
Special prosecutor Cho Eun Suk filed the request after finding that the former prime minister facilitated Yoon’s efforts to impose the martial law decree on December 3 of last year, South Korea’s official news agency Yonhap reports.
The prosecution has formally charged the former prime minister with “complicity with a rebellion leader, perjury, creating false official documents, damaging official documents, violating the Presidential Records Management Act, and using false official documents.”
Furthermore, the special prosecutor’s team found that the former prime minister failed to fulfill his basic duties, believing that, even without explicit provisions in the Constitution, he has a legitimate duty to control the abuse of power by the president.
“The prime minister,” Deputy Prosecutor Park Ji Young emphasized, “is the main state institution that assists in the duty to protect the Constitution and is also the Vice President of the State Council, a constitutional body that can supervise and pre-control the arbitrary exercise of power by the president.”
