South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol gets 30 years over North Korea drone incident

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Yoon was given life in jail in February for leading an insurrection to "paralyse" South Korea's National Assembly with his martial law declaration.  SEOUL: South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday (Jun 12) for sending drones into North Korea , a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. The drone flights, which Pyongyang said included the dropping of propaganda leaflets, triggered a