The Constitutional Court is set to hold the final hearing of President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial Tuesday as attention focuses on how the president will defend his short-lived imposition of martial law.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is in court for a hearing where his lawyers are contesting his arrest on a criminal charge alleging he was orchestrating a rebellion when he imposed martial law.

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country’s first criminal prosecution of an incumbent leader.