South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a second retrial for disgraced former president Park Geun-hye, seeking heavier punishment for illegally taking money from the country’s spy agency. Park, the country’s first female president, was impeached in 2017 after huge street protests over a sprawling scandal, and already faces a separate retrial for corruption and abuse of power that could add to her 25-year jail term. Thursday’s ruling came after an appeals court reduced Park’s sentence by one year to five years in prison in proceedings for pocketing money from the National Intelligence Service.
