South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country’s first criminal prosecution of an incumbent leader.

Driven across Seoul in prison transport vehicles, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in two different courts, contesting his arrest on rebellion charges in one and pleading to preserve his presidency in the other,

Impeached president’s lawyers argue he had ‘no intention to paralyse the country’ by imposing martial law last December