South Korea’s political turmoil deepened as disinformation blamed China for Yoon’s impeachment, despite no evidence, reflecting rising sinophobia.

A South Korean court rejected a request to detain former deputy prime minister and finance minister Choo Kyung-ho, Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday, as prosecutors sought his arrest as part of an investigation into former President Yoon Suk Yeol's briefly imposing martial law last year.

SOUTH KOREAN President Lee Jae Myung said today that he’s weighing up a possible apology to North Korea over suspicions that his ousted right-wing predecessor intentionally sought to raise military tensions in the build up to his brief martial law declaration in December 2024.

When former president Yoon Suk Yeol tried and failed to impose martial law in December 2024, South Korea plunged into its worst political crisis in decades. Yoon's impeachment and the ensuing chaos provided fertile ground for disinformation to grow in a country already entangled in conspiracy theories.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung sought to ease international concerns over the country’s nuclear ambitions on Monday.

Cho Tae-yong, a former chief of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), was indicted by a special counsel team Friday on multiple charges,