South Korea's suspended president authorised the military to fire their weapons to enter parliament during his failed martial law attempt, according to a prosecutors' report.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's legal representatives will attend the first Constitutional Court hearing on Friday in a trial reviewing his impeachment by parliament over his short-lived imposition of martial law,

South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further deepening the country's political crisis set off by President Yoon Suk Yeol's stunning imposition of martial law and ensuing impeachment.