{"id":40316,"date":"2026-08-12T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40316"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:27:30","slug":"former-ktv-chief-indicted-on-insurrection-propaganda-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40316","title":{"rendered":"Former KTV chief indicted on insurrection propaganda charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/ph\/st\/th\/5071786492400\/2026\/upi_com\/8bb367afae5ad297d323b26e52516454\/v1.5\/Former-KTV-chief-indicted-on-insurrection-propaganda-charge.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kim Ji-mi, an aide to special counsel Kwon Chang-young, attends a press conference at the counsel team&#8217;s office in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, South Korea, 04 May 2026. 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Photo by YONHAP \/ EPA<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Aug. 11 (Asia Today) &#8212;<\/span> A South Korean special counsel team indicted former Korea Policy Broadcasting Service chief Lee Eun-woo without detention Tuesday on a charge of promoting insurrection in connection with former President Yoon Suk Yeol&#8217;s December 2024 martial law declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The second integrated special counsel team led by Kwon Chang-young said Lee was indicted under the Criminal Act on a charge of insurrection propaganda.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lee is accused of repeatedly and intensively disseminating information between Dec. 3 and Dec. 13, 2024, asserting the legitimacy of the emergency martial law declaration and related proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also allege he selectively blocked or deleted information criticizing or opposing the martial law action.<\/p>\n<p>The special counsel treated the broadcasting activity through Dec. 13, one day before the National Assembly approved Yoon&#8217;s impeachment, as a single alleged offense of promoting insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>An official with the special counsel said investigators concluded that an insurrection ends when those responsible abandon their objective or become objectively unable to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>Under that interpretation, investigators determined that the alleged insurrection did not end simply when emergency martial law was formally lifted.<\/p>\n<p>They instead concluded it continued until Dec. 14, when the National Assembly passed the impeachment motion against Yoon and suspended him from his presidential duties.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lee is already on trial in a separate case involving allegations related to the deletion of broadcast captions concerning the martial law declaration.<\/p>\n<p>A court in June sentenced him in that case to one year in prison, suspended for two years.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212; Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a9 Asia Today. 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