The former South Korean Defense Minister denies the insurrection in the martial law plot

Conspiracy accusations

The prosecutors also told the Court that the former intelligence commander of the Army Noh Sang-Won visited the Kim residence every day from four days before the order of the martial law, and ordered the military officers to prepare teams such as cable ties to arrest the officials of the electoral commission.

Kim’s lawyers say that Noh, who is coacked accused of insurrection, had nothing to do with martial law and no connection with Yoon.

Noh was also accused of discussing military deployment plans with titular army officers in a set of fast food hamburgers, two days before Yoon declared the martial law, he previously said a police officer.

During the initial arguments of Monday, prosecutor Yoo Byung-Kuk said that martial law was not justified because it was not “a national state of emergency, or equivalent to war.”

“They (Kim and Yoon) mobilized the military and the police to block the National Assembly … They arrested and arrested officials in the National Electoral Commission without a court order,” Yoo said.

In response, Kim’s lawyer Lee Ha-Sang said that prosecutors were insufficient to equal a crime of insurrection.

“Insurrection means damaging stability and peace for a long time, but we do not understand that the work of the martial command, how to restrict access could fit as insurrection,” he said.

Yoon also faces a criminal trial for insurrection, although he was released from the arrest earlier this month.

In addition, the President is waiting for a decision of expected political trial in the next few days of the Constitutional Court to decide whether to eliminate it from office.