South Korea’s former defense minister ordered the drone incursion that dropped leaflets over the North Korean capital in October as part of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s plans to declare martial law, an opposition lawmaker claimed this week.

Another lawmaker also accused Kim Yong-hyun of pressing for military strikes against DPRK trash balloon launches days before the martial law crisis, raising concerns that the defense chief sought to provoke inter-Korean escalation to justify the measure.

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