Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday with basic food and a khaki prison uniform after prosecutors secured a new detention warrant over his bid to ...

The night of Dec. 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol stunned South Koreans when he declared martial law on television, reawakening dark memories of military rule. JTBC via Reuters JTBC via Reuters ...

On Dec. 14, the liberal opposition-controlled assembly impeached Yoon and suspended his presidential powers, accusing him of violating the constitution by declaring martial law, deploying troops ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law last month has created South Korea’s biggest constitutional crisis since the country democratized in the late 1980s.

South Korea's former defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week's martial law case, officials said, as police were trying to search President Yoon Suk ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who stunned the world by declaring martial law, avoided impeachment as his party’s lawmakers boycotted the vote. Dec. 7, 2024 ...

Social media posts predicted that President Donald Trump will declare martial law April 20, but they appeared to conflate it with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was mentioned in a recent ...

“I just learned about this executive order (section 6-b) which says Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 on April 20th which will (amount) to declaring martial law,” a Reddit user ...

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other ...

Martial law has been declared in the state of N.C. once, in 1870 by Gov. William Woods Holden, who declared martial law in two counties in an attempt to combat rising Ku Klux Klan activity.