Seoul: A Seoul court said Monday it has allowed the broadcast of surveillance camera footage allegedly showing former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo picking up martial law-related documents at the presidential office last December.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the bench overseeing Han's insurrection trial at the Seoul Central District Court announced during the second hearing that the footage will be examined as evidence and shown to the public. The special counsel team prosecuting Han has claimed the broadcast is possible even though it is classified as a Grade 3 military secret.

The former prime minister is standing trial on charges of abetting former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed imposition of martial law in December. The footage in question allegedly shows him leaving a Cabinet meeting room at the presidential office on Dec. 3, carrying papers printed with the martial law declaration and Yoon's address to the nation. Han attended a Cabinet meeting shortly before Yoon declared martial law that day.

The special counsel team had initially requested that the footage examination portion be excluded from a broadcast of the trial's first hearing last month due to national security considerations. The team said it later inquired with the Presidential Security Service to declassify the video and received a response that effectively permitted the broadcast.

In addition to abetting the martial law imposition, Han is accused of drafting a revised proclamation after Dec. 3 to enhance the legitimacy of the decree and lying under oath at the Constitutional Court that he was unaware Yoon had given him a copy of the martial law declaration.