Former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday appealed his life sentence for leading an insurrection linked to his 2024 declaration of martial law. The filing came five days after the Seoul Central District Court convicted the former leader of leading an insurrection in connection with his brief imposition of martial law on Dec. 3, 2024. "We believe we bear a responsibility to clearly place on record the flaws in this judgment, not only before the court but also before history," Yoon's legal team said in a statement. "Under that responsibility, we will set out the errors in fact-finding and misapplications of laws in the first-instance ruling." "We will not remain silent regarding the special counsel's excessive indictment, the contradictory reasoning of the first trial conducted under those circumstances and its political implications," the statement added. In its ruling issued last Thursday, the court concluded that Yoon's actions met the legal definition of insurrection and that the martial law declaration caused serious damage to government institutions and the National Assembly. Two days