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.