Park met justice ministry officials and checked on prison capacity for holding critics in the early hours of martial law, prosecutors said
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 3:38pm, 22 Jun 2026A court sentenced a former South Korean justice minister on Monday to 25 years in prison for his role in ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol’s brief and disastrous declaration of martial law in 2024.Park Sung-jae was found guilty of involvement in “insurrection”, the Yonhap news agency reported from the Seoul Central District Court.
Yoon was also given a 30-year jail term earlier this month for sending drones to North Korea to “manufacture a national crisis” to justify his martial law.
Park had held a meeting of justice ministry officials in the early hours of the martial law and checked on prison capacity should the authorities arrest anti-government figures, prosecutors said.
As justice minister, he “instructed cooperation with the martial law command … on the assumption that a decree would be effective”, Yonhap quoted from the verdict.
