SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched attempt early this month to establish a martial law regime -- for which he has been impeached and suspended from office pending a final Constitutional Court ruling -- implicated key defense officials in a country constantly on guard against potential provocations from rival North Korea.
When Yoon announced his plan to institute martial law late on Dec. 3, he claimed the measure was necessary to protect South Korea from "pro-North Korea forces," an apparent reference to lawmakers in the left-leaning Democratic Party.
