21 January 2025

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South Korean investigators have launched a new attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol in connection with his failed move to impose martial law in the country last month.

The operation, which began shortly after 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday, is the second attempt this month by South Korea's Corruption Investigation Bureau to arrest… yon To be questioned on rebellion and abuse of office charges.

His protection officers thwarted an initial attempt by investigators to arrest Yoon at his presidential compound earlier this month after tension. Long hours of standing.

Images broadcast on South Korean television on Wednesday showed police clashing with pro-Leon demonstrators outside the complex, where he had been holed up for several weeks.

According to South Korea's state-owned Yonhap News Agency, police and officials from the Director of Information arrived at the compound and served an arrest warrant for Yoon, but the Presidential Security Service, which remained loyal to him, denied them entry.

Yonhap also reported that about 30 lawmakers from Yoon's conservative People Power Party were at the complex and tried to prevent officials from entering.

“There is a physical clash between the Corruption Investigation Bureau, the police and the Presidential Security Service in front of the presidential residence, and there are also severe quarrels between Yoon's supporters and the police,” People Power Party leader Kooyun Seung-dong told reporters. Outside the country's National Assembly.

“The execution of the arrest warrant…is not worthy of Correa’s dignity and disrespectful to the current president.”

Police said they were also seeking to execute an arrest warrant for Kim Seong-hoon, deputy head of Lyon's presidential security team.

Yoon remains the nominal president of South Korea, while the country's Constitutional Court deliberates on whether to approve his impeachment after voting in favor of the move in the National Assembly last month.

The court held the first formal hearing on Yoon's impeachment on Tuesday, but the session lasted only four minutes because the suspended president did not attend, due to concerns for his personal safety.

Efforts by the CIO and police to detain Yoon for questioning relate to a separate criminal operation linked to his failure to impose martial law.

Yoon's lawyers insist that the CIO has no right to pursue criminal rebellion charges against him, warning last week that a police attempt to storm the president's compound could spark a “civil war.”

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