An Army colonel who was involved in President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law said Thursday he had been ...

The commander of a crack South Korean special forces unit told a court Thursday he had been asked by a superior officer how ...

On that day at the Constitutional Court, Director General Kim Hyun-tae said, "The mission I received was to seal off and secure the National Assembly building and the member's office building." When ...

"My mission was to blockade the parliament building and the members' hall, and secure those buildings," said Army Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who was leading a team of about 97 special forces soldiers ...

Kim Hyun-tae, head of the 707th Special Missions Group; Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-geun, then-head of the Army Special Warfare Command; and Park Chun-seop, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs.

Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who leads the country's elite 707th Special Mission Group, was in charge of troops attempting to stop lawmakers voting down Yoon's shock order.

"My mission was to blockade the parliament building and the members' hall, and secure those buildings," said Army Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who personally led about 97 special forces troops on the ground.