Exactly one year ago, South Korea was rocked by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s late-night martial law declaration, which cited the need to protect the country from “pro-North Korea” forces.

But while Yoon’s short-lived order seemed to come from nowhere, a slow drip of new evidence over the last year has suggested that imposing martial law was anything but off-the-cuff, with prosecutors alleging months of efforts to stoke tensions and possibly even incite conflict with the DPRK ahead of the controversial move.

The most damning of these allegations relate to the apparent deployment of military drones to Pyongyang to scatter anti-regime