The president also denied rebellion charges as the opposition planned to submit a new impeachment motion against him.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges.
Yoon also vowed to “fight to the end” and refused to step down, accusing opposition parties of seeking to cause “instability”.
“I will fight to the end, to prevent the forces and criminal groups that have been responsible for paralysing the country’s government and disrupting the nation’s constitutional order from threatening the future of the Republic of Korea,” he said in a televised statement.
