A former military commander involved in President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law bid confirmed Thursday that the people Yoon ordered to be removed from the National Assembly were lawmakers, not agents.

A former military commander who has accused President Yoon Suk Yeol of ordering the removal of lawmakers from the National Assembly building during December's brief imposition of martial law is set to testify at Yoon's impeachment trial Thursday.

Yoon to attend hearing of impeachment trial A Justice Ministry vehicle (C) carrying detained President Yoon Suk Yeol drives past an intersection en route to the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Feb. 6,