South Korea’s National Assembly voted Thursday to impeach the national police chief and the justice minister over their enforcement of martial law last week. The opposition-controlled assembly plans to submit a second impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol later in the day after the first motion last Saturday

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-Yeol defended the martial law declaration that he initiated last week and accused opposition parties of being on “North Korea’s side” to paralyse state affairs.