SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean prosecutors on Sunday indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law, a criminal charge that could incur the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted.

By bno - Taipei Bureau South Korean prosecutors late on January 26 formally indicted the already impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, describing him as the 'ringleader of an insurrection' following his failed declaration of martial law.

South Korea hit another political milestone on Sunday, as impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol became the country’s first sitting president ever to be indicted.