The political career Yoon Suk Yela may be over, but his troubles are not.

Former President Yoon, former prosecutor, the Constitutional Court was removed from duty on Friday. But still faces the criminal complaint of conducting the rebellion for his short -term imposition of a martial arts law 3. December. A separate trial of these accusations began in February and is a course of course.

Prosecutors say Mr. Yoon committed the rebellion When he banned all political activities and ordered military commanders to break the doors of the national assembly “with axes” or “shooting, if necessary” and “withdrawing” the legislators.

Mr. Yoon repeatedly rejected the claims of the rebellion orchestration. He said he declared a martial arts to protect the nation from “anti-state forces” that infiltrated the Government.

If the court declared Mr. Yoon guilty, he could face a long prison deadline. But many formerly closed Presidents of South Korea, including Gaun-Hye Park, who was convicted of bribery, ended up early. Mrs. Park is pardoned 2021, then President Moon Jae-In, less than five years in her 20-year prison sentence.

The criminal case will not directly influence the Constitutional Court’s judgment that supported its indentation.

Mr. Yoon’s time in the office was tortured by problems and scandals. After a narrow election victory in 2022, he soon became deep unpopular and division leader.

As President Mr. Yoon used lawsuits, state regulators and criminal investigations Tighten the speech That he called misinformation, the efforts that were mostly focused on newspaper organizations. Police and prosecutors have repeatedly executed a raise on homes and newsrooms that his office accused of spreading “fake news”.

Mr. Yoon has also been charged with using his power to improve his own interests. He was accused of pressuring the Ministry of Defense Investigation for white In the death of the South Korean Marina in 2023, Veto was on the proposal of the law opposed by the Parliament by the opposition, which sought a special prosecutor to investigate the claim.

Mr. Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, was also at the heart of some of her troubles. At the end of 2023, shots of spy cameras appeared Showing Mrs. Kim, accepting $ 2200 Dior bags as a gift. The episode launched his political party and became a significant question on the eve of parliamentary elections.

Relations with North Korea until longtime lowest After Mr. Yoon came to duty. For decades, two Koreans have never signed a peace treaty after the 1950-53 Korean war ended up with his complaints-shemahnules between the reconciliation tones and the rattles of Sablj. The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, was unpredictable and Bellicose, developing nuclear weapons and supplying Russia with municipality and troops for his war against Ukraine.

Mr. Yoon accepted the confrontation approach and urged it to spread the idea of ​​freedom in the north to penetrate the information there. He also expanded joint military exercises with the United States and Japan.

North Korea, under Mr. Kim, turned toward Jakolj’s attitude, excluding all the dialogue with Seoul and Washington, doubled Rocket testing that can be adhered to nuclear abilitiesand promise to treat South Korea not as a recurrence partner, but as an enemy that the north must annex need to break out the war.

Mr. Yoon leaves behind a government without a chosen leader and face the presidential survey within 60 days.

“It was a great honor to work for the country,” Yoon Suk Yeol said in a statement published through his lawyers after being removed from his duties. “I thank those who supported me and cheered me up despite my defects. I regret and sorry I couldn’t fulfill your expectations,” he said, without directly commenting on the Constitutional Court’s decision.

Mr. Yon and his wife will have to leave the official residence, where he once went to resist his arrest, protected by barricades and many security guards.

The couple is expected to move to their private home in Seoul, where they lived before Mr. Yoon’s election. But they will continue to have the protection of the presidential security services – one of the few benefits that the former leader throws through the Impeachment.