A court in Seoul sentenced former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison after convicting him in a case involving the dispatch of drones to North Korea in 2024.

Prosecutors argued that the move was intended to create conditions for the subsequent declaration of martial law.

The new sentence adds to a previous life imprisonment term handed down for leading an alleged rebellion aimed at disrupting parliamentary functions, making the case one of the most significant political crises in modern South Korean history.