Kim Keon-hee and her husband, former President Yoon Suk-yeol, arrive at their polling station in Seoul’s Seocho District for the presidential election on June 3, 2025. (pool picture)
Whereas saying the findings of their unbiased investigation into final 12 months’s martial regulation disaster, investigators stated that they didn’t suspect former first woman Kim Keon-hee of enjoying a task in her husband’s abortive self-coup.
“We’ve got secured testimony that former President Yoon Suk-yeol and Kim had a serious battle when martial regulation was declared,” Park Ji-yeong, a deputy particular counsel with the inquiry, advised reporters on Monday.
“She advised him, ‘You’ve ruined every little thing,’ indicating that she was livid concerning the martial regulation declaration,” Park stated.
The supply stated that they remembered Kim “appeared to point that she had a lot of her personal concepts [plans], however that every little thing had been ruined now that [Yoon] had declared martial regulation,” Park stated.
“Whereas Kim’s involvement comes up within the Myung Tae-kyun case, this does not look like the explanation for the martial regulation declaration,” she continued.
“If Kim had met with former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun and former Protection Intelligence Command chief Roh Sang-won, key insiders within the riot, then she would doubtless be concerned, however Kim will not be suspected of assembly with Roh,” Park shared.
Cho Eun-seok, the particular counsel who oversaw an unbiased investigation into final 12 months’s martial regulation disaster and alleged acts of riot and treason, proclaims the findings of his workforce’s investigation on Dec. 15, 2025, on the Seoul Excessive Prosecutors’ Workplace within the metropolis’s Seocho District. (pool picture)
By Kim Ji-eun, workers reporter; Kang Jae-gu, workers reporter
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