Innovation Party: "Yoon Seok-yeol's 30-Year Sentence for Pyongyang Drone... Severe Punishment Must Be Enforced as Ruled by the Judiciary"

Park Byeongeon: "A Law Must Be Passed to Prohibit Pardons for Insurrection and Treason"

Regarding the court’s decision on the 12th to sentence former President Yoon Sukyeol to 30 years in prison after finding him guilty of charges including ordinary acts of treason and abuse of power, the Innovation Party stated, "Severe punishment must be enforced according to the judiciary's judgment."

Park Byeongeon, spokesperson for the Innovation Party, commented, "Today, the court sentenced Yoon Sukyeol to 30 years in prison for carrying out the 'Pyongyang drone infiltration operation,' provoking North Korea and seeking to secure a pretext for the December 3 emergency martial law declaration. The court imposed harsh punishment on Yoon Sukyeol, who tried to overcome his political crisis through a 'Korean-style McCarthyism' and the enforcement of emergency martial law, telling him to end his delusions."

The convoy carrying former President Yoon Sukyeol, who was charged with ordering a drone deployment operation in Pyongyang to create a pretext for the December 3 emergency martial law declaration, arrived on the 12th at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where the first trial verdict is scheduled to be announced. Photo by Yonhap News

Spokesperson Park emphasized, "The court's message is clear," adding, "Schemes to use North Korea for domestic political purposes can no longer be tolerated."

The Innovation Party reiterated its stance that a pardon for former President Yoon is unacceptable. Spokesperson Park stated, "In the past, the Republic of Korea has failed to fully punish those who committed crimes related to the nation’s core identity," citing examples "from the lukewarm response to purging pro-Japanese collaborators, to Chun Doo-hwan ultimately living out his final days without remorse."

He continued, "At least in the case of Yoon Sukyeol, severe punishment must be enforced as determined by the judiciary," adding, "We hope that the law will explicitly prohibit pardons for crimes such as insurrection and ordinary acts of treason."

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