Former South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun reportedly attempted to kill himself on Tuesday night while in police detention.
Kim resigned last Thursday, the first top official to lose his position after President Yoon Suk-yeol’s disastrous attempt to impose martial law two days earlier.
Kim was also the first person to be arrested after the martial law disaster, which was aborted by the South Korean legislature just hours after Yoon issued the order. A court in Seoul issued a warrant for Kim’s arrest on charges of “rebellion and abuse of power.”
The court ruled it was important to take Kim into custody quickly because there was a high risk of him destroying evidence. The severity of the charges was also cited in the warrant.
South Korea’s chief corrections officer, Shin Yong-hae, said Kim was prevented from taking his own life on Tuesday night, and is currently under isolation and observation. […]
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