▲ Civic groups hold a press conference on Dec. 27, 2024, to demand the arrest of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party over their role in President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law. (Yonhap)

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Police send 2nd summons to PM Han in martial law probe

SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Yonhap) -- Police said Monday they have summoned Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to appear for a second round of questioning over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched imposition of martial law.

A special investigation team handling the martial law probe decided to send the summons Saturday and likely sent it on Monday, a police official told reporters.

Han was questioned once before over his attendance at a Cabinet meeting Yoon held shortly before he declared martial law on Dec. 3.

He is the first of the Cabinet members who were at the meeting to be summoned twice.

Police will likely ask about the exact time he learned of Yoon's plan to impose martial law, amid claims by former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun's legal representatives that Kim reported the plan to Han before he suggested it to the president.

The prime minister's office countered that Han had heard nothing about the martial law plan before Yoon disclosed it during the Cabinet meeting.

Han is currently suspended from duty after the opposition-controlled National Assembly impeached him last week over his refusal to exercise his presidential powers as then acting president to appoint additional justices to the Constitutional Court.

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