The political instability in Seoul continues as news arises that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested in a second attempt by the police authorities, six weeks after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law and 10 days after a first failed arrest attempt.
Sky News reported:
“A motorcade of black SUVs was seen leaving the gates of his hillside residence where he had been holed up for weeks behind barbed wire and a small army of personal security.
Mr Yoon said the “rule of law has completely collapsed” in a video message recorded before he was escorted to the headquarters of an anti-corruption agency. He said he was complying with the detention warrant to prevent clashes between police and the presidential security service.”
Yoon’s lawyers tried yet again to keep investigators from executing the arrest warrant, saying the president would ‘voluntarily appear for questioning’.
“Police had been trying to access the president’s official office to detain him but had become engaged in a standoff with Mr. Yoon’s security service.”
Eventually, hundreds of officers entered the grounds of the Palace using ladders to climb over barriers, as police reportedly deployed 3,200 officers to execute the arrest warrant. […]
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