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South Korean court hands life term to ex‑president Yoon in insurrection trial

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    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -44% Medium Left

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Read More: Kim Jong Un's 13-year-old heir faces potential power clash with influential aunt In a post on X, President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal who won the presidency in a snap election in June after Yoon's removal, commended the actions of the Korean people to thwart the attempt to bring in martial law.
44% : Prosecutors had sought the death penalty in the case, closely watched in a deeply divided country.
44% : " Masterminding an insurrection carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life imprisonment under South Korean law.
40% : South Korea last handed down a death sentence in 2016, but has not executed anyone since 1997.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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