2013 South Korean sabotage plot
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In August 2013, South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), accused Lee Seok-ki, a lawmaker from the leftist Unified Progressive Party (UPP), of plotting to overthrow the country's government if war broke out with North Korea. He was alleged by NIS to have led a secret meeting in May 2013 of 130 members of his party aimed at attacking South Korean infrastructure if the heightened tensions between Koreas in the spring of 2013 had led to war.[1][2][3]
After further investigation, on 26 September 2013, South Korean prosecutors indicted Lee Seok-ki on charges that he was plotting a pro-North Korea rebellion to overthrow the government, saying his plan posed a "grave" national security threat.[4][5][6] On 17 February 2014, he was sentenced to 12 years of prison by a district court[7][8] although the sentence was reduced to 9 years by the Seoul High Court upon appeal,[9][10] which was upheld by South Korea’s Supreme Court.[11]
On 3 November 2014, following Lee's initial conviction, the government of President Park Geun-hye asked the Constitutional Court of South Korea to disband the UPP.[12] The Constitutional Court disbanded the party on 18 December 2014 and stripped Lee and four other lawmakers of their seats in the National Assembly.[9][13]